just a little bit cynical

[incandescens]

Mildly nervous about tomorrow's and Thursday's conference in London. I've been told that my mission (roughly speaking) is to network with the other data analysts there. It'd be convenient if they'd been having as much trouble as I have, because then we can commiserate and compare notes. OTOH, I hardly want to wish problems on them. Decisions, decisions.

There's supposed to be a "gala dinner and disco" tomorrow night. Odds of ten to one that it'll be the over-fifties attending the disco, especially drunken consultants, while the younger people present quietly edge off into corners, go out to local pubs, or retire for an early night.

Excuse me; my cynicism runneth over. I'd better try and control it before making polite conversation tomorrow, let alone attending any "breakout sessions".

---

Sea Calm

How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

-- Langston Hughes

Comments

(Ah, I love Langston Hughes...)

[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

The poems you post remind me so well that there is this *something else* outside beyond work and bothersome things. So, thank you.

Re: (Ah, I love Langston Hughes...)

[(Anonymous)]

Alas that that one has the faintest ring of Dr. Seuss to it...
-mjj

[copperbird.livejournal.com]

I think you are possibly focussing on the wrong part of 'Gala Dinner' -- think instead "Free Food!!!"

That would work better if they hadn't used the ominous word "Disco". I used to wonder if anyone ever felt that a added disco would encourage them to attend an event they might otherwise have missed. Then I went to some Ridgeway Christmas Parties.


Deep sympathy. Hope it went well!

[incandescens]

Actually did go pretty well. My cynicism is a few grams less than it was. And free food at the Hilton (Metropole) is not to be sneezed at.