Thank Yous, and a London Question

[przed]

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes on the job. I'll respond to everyone soon, I promise, but at the moment I have to make a birthday card for a party Ros is going to this afternoon, complete the assignment for an online course that's due while I'm in England and, ya know, pack.

This time tomorrow, I'll be jetlagged and in London!

And speaking of London, can anyone there tell me what sort of footwear I should be bringing? Would the big, furry, Canadian boots be overkill, or can I get away with a solid pair of walking shoes?

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[przed.livejournal.com]

I was up to four weeks at the old job, but at least I'll be getting three at the new one. (They wouldn't go for four, though they did give me the salary I asked for. Rather quickly, so I probably could have negotiated them up another thousand or two. Oh well.)

The clunky Docs are no doubt more practical, but the Mary Janes are more fetching. *g* Still not sure which to go with.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm used to the sort of holiday leave my family in England get so it was a bit of a shock to get my first job in America outside of teaching and be told I'd only get 8 days leave the first year.

Well, fetching counts too as you are going to the theatre and if you're travelling light you probably don't want to take both pairs... Also, if it's one pair then the Mary Janes would probably be easier to manage in the airport where they keep making you take the bloody things off.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I've always been jealous of the amount of vacation European/Tranzac types tend to get. I wish North American employers were as enlightened in that regard. At least I didn't have to go back to two weeks. That's what I feared.

The Mary Janes aren't that open, and being black they go with more outfits, so I think I'm tending in their direction. It doesn't look like London's getting any more snow in the next week, just rain, so it should work out okay.