Monday, April 07, 2003
Couldn't handle blogging last week. Couldn't handle much, actually. I've been all jittery at work, unable to get any work done, just as unable to goof off productively (i.e. blog). Are 8 hour workdays spent under the glow of fluorescent lights finally getting to me? Somehow I've ended up on all these committees - the employee advisory committee, the administrative support committee, etc. My boss, thinking I'm a model employee and seemingly looking out for my career, has pushed me onto all these things. I guess it'd be great if I planned to stay here for years and years. But I don't.
And currying my boss's favor finally looked like it had paid off: I scammed an assignment to be sent to a seminar at Stanford in late April on federal grant funding. Whoop-de-doo. Yeah, but it meant a free flight to SF and a chance to hang out for a weekend. We all had to write a brief paragraph on why we should be sent to the seminar and the boss chose two of us based on our eloquent prose. Naturally I was one of the lucky winners.
But...
...by the time the attendees were selected, registration had closed. As I just found out last Monday. Which is why I was royally pissed.
So I don't get a free flight to SF in late April. Instead, I get the privilege of going to the next scheduled seminar. In June. In Baltimore.
It's a lot farther away. I fly out at noon and arrive at 10. I spend a total of 4 days. In Baltimore.
Oh, did I mention my traveling companion is a devout Muslim? A really nice guy who made the pilgrimage to Mecca this year and came back with a big bushy beard and a white lace cap on his head. I'm sure we're going to have a lot of fun flying together.
And currying my boss's favor finally looked like it had paid off: I scammed an assignment to be sent to a seminar at Stanford in late April on federal grant funding. Whoop-de-doo. Yeah, but it meant a free flight to SF and a chance to hang out for a weekend. We all had to write a brief paragraph on why we should be sent to the seminar and the boss chose two of us based on our eloquent prose. Naturally I was one of the lucky winners.
But...
...by the time the attendees were selected, registration had closed. As I just found out last Monday. Which is why I was royally pissed.
So I don't get a free flight to SF in late April. Instead, I get the privilege of going to the next scheduled seminar. In June. In Baltimore.
It's a lot farther away. I fly out at noon and arrive at 10. I spend a total of 4 days. In Baltimore.
Oh, did I mention my traveling companion is a devout Muslim? A really nice guy who made the pilgrimage to Mecca this year and came back with a big bushy beard and a white lace cap on his head. I'm sure we're going to have a lot of fun flying together.
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