National holidays of the week: Memorial Day, as seen in Rob’s entry and forum thread and in passing comments by others. And here we have Helatorstai, an annoying church holiday that is supposed to result in a Thursday off and a Saturday working. Of course everyone breaks the law and either works the Thursday or takes a four-day weekend. Summer schedules and vacations start on Monday: I’m sorry, Finland is closed for the summer. Thank you for living here and please feel free to use our services again in the fall.

My weekend will be spent moving rooms. I picked up the key to the new room from Reijo this morning and felt afterwards that I had done a full day’s work just in interacting with him. He had no office hours scheduled from May 23 to June 1, so that he could make people feel guilty about approaching him with key business, even though it’s the turn of the month and renovations are starting and we really have no choice. He warned that anything left behind would be trashed, possibly as early as today or tomorrow. And he has closed the clubroom for the duration.