Was that a vacation, sort of?
February 14th, 2007Feeling a touch deflated, after the excitement of speeding on the Acela Express down and up the Northeast Corridor. Two down, one shaky, three to go. It’s all happening so fast now.
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On the return trip, the woman who sat next to me (some high-powered headhunter from a top HR consultancy) was fairly intimidating in her ceaselessly efficient productivity. While I spent most of the 3.5 hours snoozing, eating dinner and doing a small amount of reading, she appeared to accomplish dozens of important tasks on her blackberry, cellphone, laptop, hardback book and miscellaneous presentation folders. These tasks included (re)scheduling various meetings in different cities on both coasts for the next two weeks. And all while appearing composed and highly competent the whole time. She even had the small ziplock bag of roasted almonds (ie healthy power-woman snack) in her stylish (but all-business) minimalist sturdy leather totes in bright red and dusky orange!
I’m reminded also of Prof S. *Impressed*
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Maybe I’ll feel more optimistic in the morning, after a nice long sleep.
PS: I did greatly enjoy my meeting with the Prof today, even if it seemed a little surreal that I had spent all that time travelling (at their expense) for such a brief conversation that could have been mostly (but less personally) conducted over the phone. And of course the setting was just lovely, and it was nice to catch up with HJ.