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To: [SlaveDriver]
From: [SneakyBossLady]
Subject: Madagascar

Say, how much work is this "work vacation" Angelo is going on?

Why yes, this is my plotting face, thank you very much

W.

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To: [nosey]
From: [not a slave driver]
Subject: it's freaking Madagascar...

How much work do you think it is? I mean, I gave him a short list of people to talk to. As in, four. Other than that, his time's his own.

-N

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To: [AntiSlaveDriver, better]
From: [Alwaysnosey]

There's just as much work as I was hoping there would be. Because now I can press go on the airline ticket for Amanda.

Because, you know, there's a pressing job I have for her. Maybe you've heard of the place? Starts with an 'M'.

W.

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To: [Sneaky, Too]
From: [wants a vacation too, dammit]

Ah, good. So you've made the necessary arrangements... I was wondering, looking at their journal conversation, whether I'd been too indirect. Me, subtle. Wow.

-N

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To: [MiniVacationsSaveSouls]
From: [AndPretty]

I think they're both so distracted that they aren't seeing the signs. I fully expect to be trampled to death in sheer joy once she gets through the first ten or so pages.

Which are utterly, mind boringly numb. And they all talk about this promisian thing. (She's going to kill me when she realizes I made her read 10 pages about lemurs.)

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To: [crazy woman]
From: [laughing very hard]

A minivacation! Oh, now why didn't I think of that. Next, every bureaucrat on this week's list will become sweet and cooperative and our projects will spontaneously restaff themselves.

Ahem. Anyway. Yeah, they're distracted, and probably just being overly considerate of each other's devotion to duty. Good thing we're less scrupulous.

-N

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Now, now. Angelo is a fast learner and he might pick up on this habit of sending people to foreign countries. But instead of work, he'll be sending you on a vacation. Mark my words, it will happen.

Far less scrupulous. That and if I didn't, I'd have the moodiest personal assistant in the city. And we're in New York so that's saying something.

W.

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Maybe in Bizarro-World where he's the one giving the orders.

I kind of envy them. I have these little fantasies of going back to Santorini with Moira (and Ray, of course).

-N

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I think it would do you a world of good. Granted, a vacation would do me a world of good together. But politics and history never seem to sleep.

(I would not mention that to the good Doctor. She might book the trip for you. I've heard it's gorgeous.)

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But see, this is why workaholics should not marry workaholics. There's nothing to break the cycle. Especially when your telepathic flying offspring somehow manages to be exquisitely well-behaved in spite of the fact that she flies and reads minds. I swear when she's here and I'm working in the office she waits until I'm done the really critical stuff before she demands my attention.

-N