My sister came home Tuesday amused and seriously bewildered. She'd scheduled Thursday and Friday off so we could hang out. Her company is getting in a little bit of a crunch financially and has been asking people to take unpaid time off; for the temps, who don't get vacation, this is actually pretty handy. So her boss points out that Wednesday is open if she wants to do an unpaid day off to go with her two paid, and she pounces on it with a glad cry of "Five-day weekend!"

The surreal part to all of this, however, is that she got called into the boss's office Tuesday afternoon so they could tell her she got a 3% raise as of April 1. While they're facing possible layoffs. *knock on wood*