More friends lost their jobs yesterday, and it didn’t exactly put me in a good mood.  It’s always a fine line for me to walk, because I want to be a friend to them and just be supportive and let them deal with it in the time they need to deal with it, but on the flip side, as a news reporter, it’s my job to get the details and report them to the masses ASAP (especially since we have an overzealous competitor — and I don’t like getting beaten on news).  Either way, I was happy that the kids downstairs at one of our sister publications came up to our break room right near my desk to have a small party, so I was able to duck in there and grab a beer or two.

Today is my last working day of 2007.  As of the time I leave work tonight, I’m on vacation until the new year.  I’m not quite sure how I feel about that, since I do like what I do and I have the tendency to be a bit of a workaholic since I do like my job — it’s also a function of liking to know what’s going on, so I’m sure I’ll probably check my e-mail about 15,000 times over the break.  Either way, I can’t remember the last time I was away from the office for so long, and it’s going to feel strange… Now I just have to come up with stuff to do and figure out which of my friends are around over the break so I don’t become a hermit and fail to leave my apartment for days on end.