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Attending a business conference, don't phone it in.

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Hey Jessica, happy last day of February.

Oh, thanks!

Um, I don't feel like there's anything to be celebrated right now.

Oh, we're moving through the winter.

James and I were talking about this yesterday, how annoying it is that like, we, because he had the day off for Martin Luther King day and

then like there's another day off school for like Veterans Day there's all these days

off school and he's like I don't understand it because they're not even holidays

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