This is the last time I try to squeeze a full week of meetings into three days. It's always intense when I visit the company HQ in Seattle, just because of the sheer concentration of people that work here, but this time has been the worst. I've been trying to shore up support for some of the things I need to do in my new position.
Between trying to figure out what I have to do, what I need to do it, and who I need to connect with, my head has swelled to like sixteen times its normal size and it feels like my brain has sprung a leak. I asked for it though, so I can't really complain. I had a choice of jobs a few months ago when my team reorganized, and I chose the more intense job for which I had the least experience. I'll sleep again someday, but maybe not someday soon.
At least I got the day off today to bum around town and go on a shopping spree before my flight. The weather was gorgeous, arclight sun and cobalt sky, the trees blazing with colors from fall-orange down into the infrareds. Seattle's a gorgeous town. I may move here someday.
Oh yeah, one thing I shopped for was my Halloween outfit. The plan was to get a lab coat, hospital mask and rubber chicken (so I'd be the bird flu). I found the lab coat but no rubber chicken. Where did all the rubber chickens go? Not sure why but I always thought that rubber chickens were universal things that you should be able to find if you really wanted one...
Anyway, I did find a basketball-sized evil-looking synthetic black vulture at a Halloween store in Redmond. My concern is that it might be over the top, I mean, a rubber chicken is cute and offbeat, whereas an evil synthetic black vulture is kinda weird and creepy.
I can't imagine what the customs people will think if they open my bag in Copenhagen.
Another hour and a half till my flight. Signing off and heading for the bar.
Posted by case at October 22, 2006 01:52 AM