Did you miss me?
Didn't think so. I don't post regularly enough for anyone to find a five or six day silence unusual.
So, color me amused. And sympathetic.
How appalling to be the planner of a Conference and to have one of your featured speakers urged out the door, rather publicly, from the corporation that also just happens to be a major sponsor of your event. What do you do?
The Conference I was just working at chose to keep them both, although I think it was a bit uncomfortable for many of the sponsor's employees who were onsite. It may and/or may not have been a brave decision.
I didn't hear her speak - I have no time to attend any of the events when I'm working Conferences. Didn't get to hear Arianna, either, which annoys me slightly more, but whatever. I'm always a bit wary of the "born again" types anyhow. No one's more militant than a convert.
But!
It's over and I'm home!
Welcome back!
We always miss you, but we don't want you to get a swelled head, so we keep it inside.
Except when one of us slips up...
The tension sounds mildly entertaining, though the public expressions of it are never as much fun as you think the private ones are.
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 11.13.06 at 10:22 PM [permalink]Yay! She's back! Did you get any time at all to do the tourist thing in Old Sacto? I'm guessing not, which is a shame. Nice part of town.
posted by: Dail on 11.13.06 at 10:44 PM [permalink]Funny, Jonathan. :)
posted by: Anne on 11.14.06 at 09:41 AM [permalink]You know better than that, Dail. :) "Business trip" = "no spare time at all."
It did look like a cute little town, though.
posted by: Anne on 11.14.06 at 01:17 PM [permalink]