In a world as chaotic, scary and stressful as ours, one thing we can universally agree on is the comprehensively soothing power of a child's song and dance.
Stated otherwise I'M DRAGGING YOU ALL IN TO WATCH HOME MOVIES OF THE LLDD-BABY PERFORMING
Trust me, it'll be good for you.
Book Week
Family Day
Ballet Recital
Lavish musical numbers not really your thing? Fine, here's a loop of the kid happily skipping away...
As you may have heard in the news, our Diplo-Elvis was leaving the building. Now, I never got to work that closely with this boss, and I was posted abroad when Pardek said his goodbyes to the Department years ago, so I had no sense of what the last day at work of a Secretary might be like.
Turns out, pretty cool.
While work-as-usual continued throughout the day, the different offices found time to drop by the guest of honor's room and leave some going-away presents. My office gave a fine, stone-inlaid case hand-crafted by Visayan artisans. Really tasteful and classy.
So much so, you know I had nothing to do with it
At the end of the work day, everyone headed down to the auditorium for a final gala of testimonials, videos, musical numbers and other senior official performances
When we say we'll have singing ambassadors, we'll have SINGING AMBASSADORS
And keeping it hip, everything ended with some epic groufies
Can you spot the pandork in this picture?
Then people just found themselves lining the long, last walk to the main doors. Smiles, cheers, tears, hugs, handshakes (even a slow-clap!) all the way out. A couple of senior officers and I may or may not have also been loudly humming the Battle of Yavin Medal Ceremony theme.
And of course, for the final "Riding off into the Sunset" moment, some lens flare
I mean, the thing's already foreseen that mechanical bugs will become sentient and turn on their human overlords! Just like the prophecy/supreme court decision said they would!
(on the other hand, its stock photo of a lady scientist might also just be Denise Richards, so there very well may still be a flaw in the programming that mankind can exploit during its fightback)
