I'm Free! (Almost)
Just wrapped up my last meeting of the conference! The only thing left for me to do now is "booth duty" - i'm on the schedule for tomorrow morning. I've never done "booth duty" before but I'm told it's a no-brainer. I stand there and demo our product to people who come by. Only most people that come by, I'm told, will not really be interested in our product or a demo, but are more likely more interested in "schmoozing" and asking totally random questions that are completely unrelated to the product that I am demoing. And since tomorrow is the official last day of the conference, most people will be bailing early, so I suspect there won't be that many people coming by our booth at all. But I'll be there, with my black pants and shoes, and white shirt with our logo on it, demo script fresh in my mind, all ready to do my thing.
I wandered around the exhibitions on my own this morning, and noticed that quite a few booths had oddly, scantily, or flashily (is that a word?) women handing things out, or demoing products, or go-go dancing on platforms to techno-music. So I'll happily take my black pants, white logo'd shirt, and demo script over any of that ;-)
I wanted to take pictures - I had my camera phone (actually Tim's!) but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I think it was the fact that I was the only woman standing in a sea of men also holding out their camera phones pretending to check their schedules.
Anyway - after 12:30pm tomorrow I'm a free woman! Tomorrow afternoon and all day friday belong to ME! ME ME ME. I can get up whenever I want, eat whereever and whenever I want, go whereever I want, and indulge my gelato cravings (not only is this the land of italian restaurants, it's also the land of gelato - I guess being so close to Italy, and on the mediterranean and everything ;-)). Oh - and check out the ferrari store for Tim (even though I already bought him a souviner ;-))
Then it's off home on Saturday! bright and early. With a 5 hour stopover in Heathrow. But it'll be ok, because I'll be on my way home!!
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