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Kong76 Oct 09 2008 07:50 AM

Office closed both today and Monday! Would be nice to have gay dame this afternoon.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 09 2008 07:54 AM

Wow! When I was a kid, Jewish holidays were my favorite religious holidays because I got a day off from school and didn't have to pay for it by going to church. But I haven't had a day off for anything Hebrew since I got out of high school. (Or maybe college. We might have had those days off when I was at NYU. I don't remember.)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 09 2008 07:58 AM

Taking off tomorrow, off Monday. Leaving for the extendo-weekend in Maine tonight.

sharpie Oct 09 2008 08:00 AM

No days off for me. Mrs. sharpie works for a Jewish institution and is off not only today but next Tuesday for some reason.

metirish Oct 09 2008 08:05 AM

Not working Monday.......

metsguyinmichigan Oct 09 2008 08:07 AM

One MORE thing I miss about the East Coast: We don't get the Jewish holidays off. No one even knows what they are or what they are about. When I first got to Michigan in 1990, the food section of my then-paper did a story about Passover foods, especially the breads. And the headline: "On the rise!" I was sitting with a photog from New York when the papers came to the office. We both looked at that and went "Nooooooooooooooo." But it was too late.

Mendoza Line Oct 09 2008 08:41 AM

I'm Jewish by culture and upbringing, agnostic by religion, and workaholic by necessity. Working today and Monday. ]Mrs. sharpie works for a Jewish institution and is off not only today but next Tuesday for some reason. Sukkot (the harvest holiday - celebrate by eating inside temporary tent-like structures in your backyard) begins Tuesday. It's one of the three non-work holidays besides Shabbat and the High Holy Days. ]One MORE thing I miss about the East Coast: We don't get the Jewish holidays off. In Chicago, we didn't get Columbus Day off, either. I think the schools were closed for Good Friday and for Pulaski Day instead. Not that those were work holidays.

Farmer Ted Oct 09 2008 08:58 AM

Working tomorrow. Leaving for Seattle on Sunday for biz Monday and Tuesday.

themetfairy Oct 09 2008 09:25 AM

Kids are off from school today, but our bizarro school district is open on Monday. D-Dad took today off (floating religious holiday) but he'll be working Monday. I miss living in New York, where Columbus Day was always a three-day weekend.

Willets Point Oct 09 2008 09:31 AM

Off Monday for Columbus Day. And then off the rest of the week for a vacation at the Shore.

metirish Oct 09 2008 09:37 AM

Farmer Ted wrote: Working tomorrow. Leaving for Seattle on Sunday for biz Monday and Tuesday. I didn't see Farmer Ted on the list of candidates for the Seattle GM job.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 09 2008 09:53 AM

Gasp! Maybe he's secretly Tony Bernazard!

Fman99 Oct 09 2008 10:05 AM

Working today, Friday, Monday. Keep on keepin' on.

Iubitul Oct 09 2008 10:09 AM

Working today, Friday, and Monday... Taking what they're giving, 'cause I'm working for a living...

Gwreck Oct 09 2008 10:35 AM

Off today, office closed for all employees, regardless of whether it's a holiday we observe. Working Monday though.

Rockin' Doc Oct 09 2008 10:39 AM

I was off this Monday (10/6) and will be off the next 2 Fridays (10/17 & 10/24). No holidays or special reasons, other than my partners and I decided several years ago that we wanted to slow down a little and enjoy life with our families while we could. We are exceptionally busy when we are in the office, but we seldom work more than 4 days a week. I'm also taking Monday (10/27) off to play in a charity golf tournament to benefit Duke Children's Hospital. Is Columbus Day really considered a holiday? I've never had it off anywhere that I have lived. Jewish holiday's don't register with the majority of the local populace. There is one Jewish Synagogue in town, but there are close to 100 Baptist churches in town.

Willets Point Oct 09 2008 10:43 AM

Rockin' Doc wrote: IJewish holiday's don't register with the majority of the local populace. There is one Jewish Synagogue in town, but there are close to 100 Baptist churches in town. Ah, the South. Kind of reminds me of moving from Connecticut to Virginia where the ratio of Catholic churches to Baptist Churches went from 15:1 to 1:15.

Kong76 Oct 09 2008 10:58 AM

RD: Is Columbus Day really considered a holiday?<<< Well, there's no mail. Not a big fan of the Columbus myth, but celebrating the indians after wiping them out doesn't make for a nice parade up Fifth Ave. (edited for discrepancies after doing some googling)

Gwreck Oct 09 2008 11:22 AM

Rockin' Doc wrote: Is Columbus Day really considered a holiday? I've never had it off anywhere that I have lived. It's a [url=http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2008.asp]Federal Holiday[/url] but it's about as low on the pantheon as it gets. Federal Holidays that my office does not close for: Columbus Day Veterans Day Martin Luther King Day

themetfairy Oct 09 2008 11:26 AM

I remember working for the City of New York. We got EVERYTHING off, including Lincoln's Birthday and Election Day! Ah, good times....

metirish Oct 09 2008 11:29 AM

="themetfairy"]I remember working for the City of New York. We got EVERYTHING off, including Lincoln's Birthday and Election Day! Ah, good times....

Frayed Knot Oct 09 2008 11:43 AM

]Is Columbus Day really considered a holiday? I've never had it off anywhere that I have lived. In the northeast it's become as much an Italian heritage day as anything. So just try NOT acknowledging it if you're a municipality up here.

soupcan Oct 09 2008 11:52 AM

'Stocks Skid - Dow Down 12' How quaint.

DocTee Oct 09 2008 12:39 PM

As I mentioned earlier, in some municiplaites here in Cali, Columbus Day has been replaced by Indigenous Persons Day. There is a planned Italian-American parade in Frisco: Tommy Lasorda (!) is grand marshall, much to the dismay of Supervisor Alioto who poropses local Italian-American athletes, like Barry Zito (as if there'd be fewer boos) or Joe Montana. Your tax dollars, hard at work.

AG/DC Oct 09 2008 03:01 PM

Willets Point Oct 09 2008 06:30 PM

Tommy Lasorda, who disowned his gay son, leading a parade in the world's gayest city. That'll ruffle some feathers.

seawolf17 Oct 09 2008 07:37 PM

Working tomorrow and Monday. Big visit days on college campuses. Plus I'm headed up to CT again Monday afternoon for another week of high school visits. It doesn't really stop this time of year. I'm writing this from the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport.

Nymr83 Oct 09 2008 08:00 PM

]Sukkot (the harvest holiday - celebrate by eating inside temporary tent-like structures in your backyard) begins Tuesday. It's one of the three non-work holidays besides Shabbat and the High Holy Days untrue, the first two and last two days of sukkot, as well as the first two and last two days of passover are all yuntif and you shouldnt be working. shavuot as well.

soupcan Oct 10 2008 07:39 AM

Nymr83 wrote: untrue, the first two and last two days of sukkot, as well as the first two and last two days of passover are all yuntif and you shouldnt be working. shavuot as well. Check out Super Jew over here.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 10 2008 07:51 AM

Namor's entry had three Hebrew words that I don't think I'd ever heard before. (Not that I'm any kind of a scholar or anything, but still...)

Willets Point Oct 10 2008 07:53 AM

Mendoza Line wrote: Sukkot (the harvest holiday - celebrate by eating inside temporary tent-like structures in your backyard) begins Tuesday. Let me just say that any religion that encourages camping and eating is cool with me.

Iubitul Oct 10 2008 08:49 AM

one of the women in my dept brought in a dish of Kugel - it's really good.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 10 2008 08:52 AM

Is that anything like "Koogle" the line of flavored peanut butters?

metirish Oct 10 2008 09:28 AM

seawolf17 wrote: I'm writing this from the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport. You want a nickname?...