Ready to go home

It is after 5pm on Thursday (our Friday) and I am ready to go home and nurse a sore throat and be lazy. But instead I am hanging out at the office waiting until it is 6pm when I am going to a reception at the Ambassador's residence. These events aren't usually fun but I can at least look forward to the outstanding mini springrolls that the Ambassador's cook makes. But with my sore throat even they don't sound good. Dan likes going to these events mostly because the bartender always remembers that he likes gin and tonics and within seconds of Dan's arrival, one is brought to him - sort of like our own version of Cheers.