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Top 5 Things About Having My Soul Sucked Out at Sales Conference

  • Dec. 9th, 2003 at 10:43 AM
Dead To Me
1) Free shrimp with every meal. Lots of it.

2) Boca was much warmer than Manhattan. (I now want to take a box cutter to my wrists as I deal with the coldness, not to mention how pleasant my fellow New Yorkers become because of it)

3) A hospitality suite with guitars where the well never runs dry.

4) Seeing the amount of crap that's getting published and realizing "Hey! My crap is just as crappy as that! I might get published someday when an editor falls in love with my crapitude!"

5) It's better than having my brain driven to madness by the Shub-Niggurath.

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[info]varuka wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2003 09:26 am (UTC)
So how did the conference go? Did you have time for yourself to look around?
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[info]antonstrout wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2003 09:31 am (UTC)
Some friends and I took a night off, commandeered a battle van and ran off to Miami for hijinks.

There was much hijinks eating Cuban cuisine (Bongo's restaurant)and dancing (Mangos). I am sure we sounded like drunken tourists to everyone we encountered.

My favorite place we had a drink at was a place called Bed where, you guessed it, you eat and drink on these giant beds. There were ten of us, and it was bizarre with all of us fitting. Sadly, I didn't get to try their foie gras dish as one of our party was Vegan and they couldn't accomodate her.
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[info]varuka wrote:
Dec. 10th, 2003 12:09 am (UTC)
The bed place sounds awesome! To think that there is a place out there where you can actually go out andstill lounge in bed!

A dream come true? :)
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[info]kijjohnson wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2003 10:17 am (UTC)
I remember attending SMP/Tor sales conference with the fabulous and irreproducible Maria Melilli, then our art director. She sat in the back and played Gameboy all day, and when one of the big cheeses hollered out for her because he had a question, she would slap it down with an "And NOW what?" air. I cherish the memory.

You know, of course, why you felt that bitter wind when you came out of the airport, right? It's because NYC sucks.

Ar ar ar.
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[info]catherinef wrote:
Dec. 19th, 2003 09:25 am (UTC)
shrimp is always a bonus
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[info]antonstrout wrote:
Dec. 19th, 2003 11:11 am (UTC)
I could go for a mountain of shrimp right now
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[info]catherinef wrote:
Dec. 19th, 2003 01:46 pm (UTC)
i just had one!
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[info]antonstrout wrote:
Dec. 19th, 2003 01:47 pm (UTC)
damn you! That's one less shrimp for me!
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[info]catherinef wrote:
Dec. 19th, 2003 02:10 pm (UTC)
actually its several less


less for you more for me!@
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[info]antonstrout wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2003 06:04 am (UTC)
Well, I had many fine shrimp over the holiday, so nyaaaah!
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[info]catherinef wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2003 09:34 am (UTC)
as did i!

this is wonderful!
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