Ah, presentation day! All day sitting in butt-cramping hotel chairs and listening to folks go on about Trade Spend and Siebel.
Huh? Siewhat?
Exactly.
Did I mention this is a finance meeting? Well, it is, and, boy, could you tell. We must have a litmus test for interestingosity. We all nearly fell asleep many times.
Thankfully, the kitchen is right behind the podium wall, and, this being the Bizarro Disneyland, no one back there made any effort to be quiet. There were clankings and clunkings and loud French utterances all day. I turned to Sylvia and said, "I'd love to hear a huge, crashing disaster back there. That would make me laugh."
No sooner had I said that (or was it two hours later?), I got my wish. There was a jarring, amazing cacophony of what must have been trolleys laden with empty chafing dishes and pots and pans and silverware all crashing to the hard floor.
Yes, we have ways of making you stay awake!
Date: Dec. 11, 2006
Running the Show
DAY 4
Ah, presentation day! All day sitting in butt-cramping hotel chairs and listening to folks go on about Trade Spend and Siebel.
Huh? Siewhat?
Exactly.
Did I mention this is a finance meeting? Well, it is, and, boy, could you tell. We must have a litmus test for interestingosity. We all nearly fell asleep many times.
Thankfully, the kitchen is right behind the podium wall, and, this being the Bizarro Disneyland, no one back there made any effort to be quiet. There were clankings and clunkings and loud French utterances all day. I turned to Sylvia and said, "I'd love to hear a huge, crashing disaster back there. That would make me laugh."
No sooner had I said that (or was it two hours later?), I got my wish. There was a jarring, amazing cacophony of what must have been trolleys laden with empty chafing dishes and pots and pans and silverware all crashing to the hard floor.
