Palfrey's life

We appear to be short one housemate. Navid went home to Pakistan at some point ~8th December last year, saying he'd be back in 4 weeks. Two months later, we hadn't seen him. As he'd done this last year as well (and then turned up with a story of his brother having a motorcycle accident), we'd just assumed he'd turn up sooner or later. But, after he'd been gone for ~10 weeks and yet another letter marked "urgent" appeared, Huus decided it would be a good idea to open one or two of the more urgent mail items and find out whether we need to try emailing Navid and telling him he needs to go to court or whatever. This was yesterday. The first one that got opened up was the jackpot - a letter, and a printout of a follow-up email, detailing how Navid had apparently informed his department (2 weeks after he was meant to be back) that he was staying in Pakistan due to his father being ill. They being nice people had promptly granted him 6 weeks of compassionate leave (dated from when he was meant to be back), on the proviso that he send them weekly updates + get the doctor in question to contact them. Unfortuantely, according to the follow-up email he hadn't done any of this, and he was meant to be back on Friday anyways. So, the other thing the email said was that he was getting "summarily dismissed" unless he turned up to work today. As I haven't seen him, I'm assuming he's just gotten sacked.... which probably means he'll end up leaving/getting thrown out by the landlord. Luckily we've all got separate contracts, so this won't fuck me up, but it's still a bit weird.

I'd been listening to K's Choice a bit before I came here (due to their presence on the BtVS soundtrack), but didn't know that much of their stuff or anything about them until I came here, and Niels (my first officemate) turned out to be a fan with several albums. So, there's one cool Belgian band. Now, I've found myself listening to Mintzkov Luna, and I'm definately gonna buy their album (ok, mainly 'cause I can't find a .torrent....) soonish, because "Mimosa" rocks lots. I definately need to explore what else the crazy Belgians have come up with....