Today is Rosh Hashanah. Everyone in my office is coincidentally Jewish. So no one is here (currently missing: both Presidents, SVP of my department, one of my bosses, an assistant, a manager in another department, two of the VPs in my department, the head of another department, innumerable other people that work in other places around the country and who I never see anyway). We don't even have enough people to get two signatures on an invoice because only certain people are able to sign invoices (this is usually not a problem). My boss who's here suggested that a co-worker who checked in was several bong hits deep. Religious observance indeed.

One of the other assistants and I have puzzled over whether we are lucky to be areligious, because we get to get paid even though our work load is greatly reduced, or unlucky because we have to come in at all. She is getting constant phone calls, so I'd say she's unlucky, but she gets called by her boss on the weekends anyway, whereas I don't. I'm probably more on the lucky end, however, as the only annoyance I've suffered was waiting for two hours for my boss to email me back with the name of his childhood pet so I could access his credit card info. Fortunately he brought his Blackberry into the synagogue and was able to respond as soon as services let out. Miracle of the modern world.