A nerds-eye view of Venice, Italy day 5
Kind of a weird day. The first half of the day was international meetings, which were productive but kind of not at the same time. Most of it was marketing, which are rarely as interesting or informative as most marketing people seem to think. Why is it marketing people are usually my favorite people to meet and hang out with but the meetings I dread the most?
Anyway, after a full day of meetings at the modern nightmare that was our hotel we went skating. It was fun, and I got to teach a couple Italians how to skate better. I have always enjoyed that and feel like I ma making the world a better place, at least as far as skaters goes.
We then went to a gorgeous villa for dinner. It is here that I fell into conversation with a beautiful, interesting, and highly intelligent Bavarian girl. To say I was captivated is a huge understatement. It could almost be said I was totally falling for her. We literally talked all the way through dinner, the bus ride home to our hotel, and the hotel bar until about 1:30am. Inexplicably the evening ended without even a handshake. I wasn’t expecting to hook up with her or anything like that but it seemed a little abrupt. It didn’t help that my ass hat American friends kept telling me I should be hooking up with her that night. However, I consider the entire evening more evidence of my hellish Tantalus-esque existence as well as my inability to make any kind of positive impression on attractive females.
I honestly don’t have a lot more to report. I only slept about two hours, mainly because I kept thinking about the girl but my issue was aggravated by the snore my roommate, whom I have roomed with at every sales meeting for the last ten years with nary a problem, seems to have recently developed. Looks like I will be drinking lots of caffeine.
Today is more meetings. Tomorrow we are doing a scavenger hunt in Venice. Given the three days I have already spent there I should have a significant advantage, but the prizes for these things are rarely things I want so I might duck out and finally write up that Snow White review.
I talked to Jason via last night via Skype before bed and he told me Prometheus was pretty cool. He is less the descriminating viewer than I (he liked Priest) but that doesn’t necessarily mean this movie will be bad (Alien image courtesy of the Movie T Shirt category). I will see it as soon as I get home. Talk to you soon.
Dave
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