And the concours goes on

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

Still no report from the holidays. Appalling, really. Some good news though:
I've been sent a preliminary invitation to sit the translation exam in Brussels. And no, it's not the exam that will land me a fabulous job should I pass it. It'll possibly get me on a list for potential candidates to interview should a vacancy present itself for translators into Swedish working in the DG Translation. A grey area of possibilities and probabilities, in other words. And let us all join in shock and horror at the EU telling me I can't sit the exam in Cosa No-, sorry the Commission's office in Lima and instead forcing me to cross the Atlantic thus adding to the greenhouse effect (or the UV screening effect, depending on which way you choose to look at it).