Going' on a cruise!
Sep. 12th, 2006 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisThe Caribbean? The Mediterranean? The coast of Alaska? Nope.
The Potomac.
My engineering division is going on a midday cruise on the Potomac River September 20. We found out this morning. That's not enough warning to reschedule a lot of meetings, training sessions, etc., so the best we can hope for is a significant portion of our team attending... Why do managers do dumb things like that?
I suppose I should be grateful for the reward but frankly, I'd prefer a day off instead. Or a week of jeans days.
Nothing quite like being trapped on a boat of straight people attempting to dance. If you hear on the evening news about some geek escaping a cruise in a lifeboat, you'll know why.
The Potomac.
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Odyssey dinner cruise |
My engineering division is going on a midday cruise on the Potomac River September 20. We found out this morning. That's not enough warning to reschedule a lot of meetings, training sessions, etc., so the best we can hope for is a significant portion of our team attending... Why do managers do dumb things like that?
I suppose I should be grateful for the reward but frankly, I'd prefer a day off instead. Or a week of jeans days.
Nothing quite like being trapped on a boat of straight people attempting to dance. If you hear on the evening news about some geek escaping a cruise in a lifeboat, you'll know why.
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Date: 2006-09-12 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 01:41 pm (UTC)What discipline of engineering? Civil? Mechanical? Chemical? The image becomes funnier as I go down the list in my head. I work with civil/municipal/structural engineers. Their softabll games are pretty hilarious to watch.
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Date: 2006-09-12 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 02:30 pm (UTC)I just read an article in the CDSS newsletter about Amy Cann (a fiddler and contra dance caller) teaching inmates in a low intensity vermont prison to Contra Dance and they had lots of fun.
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Date: 2006-09-12 02:38 pm (UTC)Not gonna happen.
I keep an extremely high, broad and well-defended wall between my office/work-related activities and my home/social-related activities. My life is complicated enough without mixing the two even slightly.
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Date: 2006-09-12 08:59 pm (UTC)