Yesterday I could have had breakfast at a conference. Not just scones or small sandwiches (the usual conference food), but scrambled eggs and bacon, sausages or fresh crescent rolls with butter and jam. I could eat them at a decent table, covered with immaculate, white tablecloth. Too bad I had breakfast at the metro station [...]
We had a really excellent New Year’s Eve. Last year after visited Mum, we went home and tried to find out what to do. We ended up watching Friends all night — the same thing we did every other evening.
This time we were much smarter. Unlike last year did not planned to do anything special [...]
After my first complete week at my new job, I had to participate at a workshop on the weekend. I arrived home on Sunday afternoon, my head full with new information — at least I can be considered fairly competent at one of the three main fields I have to work on.
At first I was [...]
My office is on a straight corridor. The rooms open to the corridor, and also to the adjacent rooms — so you can hear quite well what’s going on at your neighbours. The room left to mine is empty. On the right, my neighbor is a young mother, who apparently comes to work to make [...]
I know it was just my first day, but I simply love my new job. I have to work together with streamlined professionals, on a wonderfully complex and interesting field. I have my own office, my own telephone number, my own, brand-new e-mail address. I even got a security card to the building, so I [...]
Mission more or less completed, now I only have to close the project: write some summaries, fill out some forms, and collect the money. I am certainly more clever than I was a month ago. I am also ready to take my new job, where, if no disaster happens in the next two days, I [...]
After arriving back to the city, I got a call from a previous employer of mine. They needed an experienced editor/reporter for the Celebration of Hungarian Science, a one month long serial of approximately four hundred event all over the country. I grabbed the opportunity — it’s hopefully the last temporary assignment before a long-term [...]
We started a new enterprise with Mum recently. If you are not an accountant, you definitely need one in Hungary. Tax law is far too complex to be understood by mundane people.
While mum was back to the States, I visited accounting portals and asked for tenders. Our “firm” is absolutely miniscule, we have no employees [...]
I had to make a complaint at a Vodafone office, so I went in and asked for the office manager. After a few minutes, Pinocchio came forward from the back office in a red Vodafone shirt. Although I was quite angry, I could hardly bear not to laugh, and became relaxed in an instant. I [...]
What good is a suit, if you are wet through and through? It was raining so heavily that I was really worried about my looks. Fortunately I always have an umbrella with me, the suit seemed to repel water somehow, and since I was twenty minutes early, I could rearrange myself properly in the foyer.
Truth [...]
