and don't forget to take all those canadian foreign intelligence service business cards with you

every blog post involving spies must be illustrated thusly

so jim judd weighed a summer spent trying to get get PVL to understand important, complicated files and provide some policy direction with a shelf-life longer than five minutes (a chore that we hear le judd has been finding increasingly tedious as of late), versus chillaxin' at the cottage, carving his little wooden ducks and drinking rum-and-cokes with jack hooper while reminiscing about the good ol' days, and guess which one he chose? anyway, lest any of y'all be worrying about being stuck in your own tedious jobs this summer, take heart because it will soon be time to play a little game we like to call changes in the senior ranks of the public service. so have fun in d.c. kevin, we hear the weather is really quite delightful there in summertime (although you may find the gossip blogs somewhat derivative). and hey, looks like richard dicerni may now have an opportunity to test out his innovative ideas for making the management of the federal public service just as effective as ontario power generation, so hooray! (oh god jim for the love of jeebus take us with you)