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godreamBack from my first for-reals business trip, which was incredibly busy and pretty fun. Turns out though that after interacting strictly with coworkers for a couple days, my sketchy-under-normal-circumstances view of appropriate work etiquette takes a turn for the even-worse: specifically, I'm feeling bad about the face that I swore at a coworker after the nth time he'd interrupted me. Felt good at the time but clearly a pretty unprofessional move in retrospect; normally I solve these problems (or at least make myself feel better about them) by apologizing but it was yesterday evening so I'm pretty sure the window of opportunity has closed. Todo: find work-safe method of getting a word in edgewise, for future use... If I think too hard about it, the interruption problem (kind of chronic) starts to feel very "shush now grownups are talking" -- I *think* it's just a personality thing among some of the guys, but it still drives me pretty crazy. The downside to working with a passionate outspoken smart group, right? Anyways -- I know I get unprofessional pretty frequently (even among a group where nobody is really the epitome of businesslike conduct) and I kind of suspect I have to start paying attention to where the line falls a little more. Aforementioned coworker and I were totally fine from there on out, I don't think my behavior is going to cause anything to fester except my guilt which hopefully writing this will help to exorcise, but... gotta do better. Gahhh.
On the awesome side though -- and there was lots of awesome -- we went by the SF office and rode the slide (how come we don't have a slide?), I met tons of awesome and relevant people, I got to spend not-at-a-computer time with my coworkers who really are pretty fantastic, I had a delicious and tremendously expensive meal (yay, expensing it!) in which I actually liked a piece of lobster sushi and had the most amazing rare kobe beef ever and tried bacon-wrapped scallops (mmmm yum) and sake (not bad) and roe (seriously awful, but I ate it) and talked to people terrifyingly many levels up the corporate food chain from me, and also had several other really good meals, and heard interesting talks, and rode a bike across the campus of the mothership, and did lots of walking around san francisco, and got to be the competent one about sf public transit, and did not crash and burn while demoing our product, and all sorts of other good stuff. Whee!
On the awesome side though -- and there was lots of awesome -- we went by the SF office and rode the slide (how come we don't have a slide?), I met tons of awesome and relevant people, I got to spend not-at-a-computer time with my coworkers who really are pretty fantastic, I had a delicious and tremendously expensive meal (yay, expensing it!) in which I actually liked a piece of lobster sushi and had the most amazing rare kobe beef ever and tried bacon-wrapped scallops (mmmm yum) and sake (not bad) and roe (seriously awful, but I ate it) and talked to people terrifyingly many levels up the corporate food chain from me, and also had several other really good meals, and heard interesting talks, and rode a bike across the campus of the mothership, and did lots of walking around san francisco, and got to be the competent one about sf public transit, and did not crash and burn while demoing our product, and all sorts of other good stuff. Whee!
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Date: 2009-05-30 04:12 pm (UTC)How about the time-out sign? or one of those really loud whistles. :P
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Date: 2009-06-02 03:52 am (UTC)(hey, have you seen our coffee-time light? it is *awesome*.)
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Date: 2009-06-01 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-02 03:49 am (UTC)I like San Francisco better than New York, but not as much as Boston. (From my not-at-all comprehensive experience.) And better than London probably but not as much as Dublin. How's that for an answer?
It rates approximately 1 Scharffenberger on the shininess scale.
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Date: 2009-06-02 09:59 am (UTC)Also, you somehow brought up chocolate and managed to make me regret being in Europe right now. I have no idea how you pulled that off, but I am thoroughly impressed.
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Date: 2009-06-02 12:04 pm (UTC)Dude you are in Europe, you are surrounded by good chocolate right? You can live without scharffen berger -- can't you just hop a plane to Switzerland and, like, bathe in it? There was this one amazing chocolate place in Lausanne that I can't remember the name of, but I can look it up for you, started with a B...
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:56 pm (UTC)And yeah, there's lots more chocolate here. And it's sooo good, especially since Hershey's doesn't exist. And yet for some reason I really wanted Scharffen Berger and I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DID THATGETOUTOFMYBRAINFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU