February 7, 2000

dashing about

Of note: we present to two customers. Rooms full of managers and techies. No women. It's rainy. The customers aren't close together. We eat a five-minute meal in my Dutch colleague's car. We buy this lunch in a gas station. This is the life.

We get a beautiful French dinner, though. From the salesman from the second call. I have the foie gras appetizer and the sweetbreads entreé. This is the fun we are supposed to be having

Back to the hotel to await another round. Oh, boy.

"I hope succeeding generations will be able to be idle. I hope that nine-tenths of their time will be leisure time; that they may enjoy their days, and the earth, and the beauty of this beaufiful world; that they may rest by the sea and dream; that they may dance and sing, and eat and drink. "

Richard Jefferies, The Story of My Heart

yeah, right