This is way too ironic ...
August 17, 2004 ~ 2:30 p.m.
LONDON, U.K.�You want a definition of irony that'll knock the socks off you, dear reader? It was defined for me yesterday morning. Luckily for me, I was already lying in bed so it couldn't actually floor me:
I arrived home from my Boston vacation at around 10 a.m., British time. The wife and I were just settling down for a nap together when the phone rang. It was the temp agency ringing for me.
Now remember how I used to work for a university for two-and-a-half years, and how I recently left my job there? Well, imagine my surprise when they told me that they had a month's assignment at the school I just quit working for!
My wife knew from the way my eyes lit up where I'd been assigned.
"Did they just tell you to report to �?"
"They did," I interrupted.
Can you imagine�the same college, and in the Human Resources department no less! Not the same office or even the same building�that would be more irony than I could stand.
And so I'm back on campus, what was my stomping ground for 2-� years, as a temp. How surreal is that?
� M.E.M.
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