The annual IAS transfer list will be released. You will receive a promotion and transfer to a department known for its extreme inactivity, allowing for extensive 'strategic planning' opportunities. Your new office will lack an internet connection.

Your efforts to streamline an outdated administrative process will encounter robust resistance from long-serving clerical staff. They will cite 'historical precedent' and 'the way things have always been done' as immutable obstacles. The process will remain unchanged.

Intra-departmental negotiations for a prime position on a prestigious foreign delegation will require delicate maneuvering. Your carefully calibrated lobbying will be successful, only for the delegation itself to be abruptly cancelled due to 'unforeseen diplomatic scheduling conflicts' an hour before departure.