I’ve had two days of work this week and tomorrow is a holiday. They really love their holidays around here. Tomorrow is Victory Day so I don’t have to work because I’ll be too busy reminiscing about how we beat the Nazis. We’re hoping to figure out when the big parade is downtown so we can watch the WWII vets all decked out in their medals and old Soviet uniforms.
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The story today coming out of Athens helps me remember that you never know exactly which are the “dangerous” posts to work at. The U.S. Embassy in Athens was struck today by a rocket-propelled grenade. Fortunately, no one was injured in the attack.
The watercooler talk among the new Junior Officers and the wannabe Foreign Service Officers out there has recently focused on the newly announced changes to the Foreign Service testing process. Granted, the buzz has probably been quite a bit louder among the wannabe’s because for those of us already in it is more of a “Huh…that’s interesting” kind of thing because we’ve already made it. It is a much bigger deal to those still trying to get in.
I’m not doing consular work my first tour, but for those of you who wonder what it is they have to deal with…
It’s much easier for me to post regularly these days when paid reporters do all of the work for me. Business Week recently had an interview with State’s Director of Recruitment. You can read all about it here.
This evening I took a walk down to Olsson’s Books, a DC area bookstore chain, to attend a discussion with John Brady Kiesling who was in town to promote his new book, “Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower.”
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