ta-ranna

well, here i sit. rocking it in the t-dot.  yep. 

the bad:  well, i’m in toronto.  it’s cold and currently pouring rain.  i have been working my fucking ass off over the last couple days, with tomorrow promising to be just as busy.  we’re doing training sessions, on the event life cycle and presentation skills.  it’s been good, but grueling.  today they video taped us doing presentations and critiqued them as a group.  *shudder*  it sucked hard.  also sucky is that we’ve had homework last night and tonight, so i’ve had no time to actually do anything.  tomorrow we have dinner with work folks, then i leave thursday.  so that’s about it.  so far in toronto i’ve seen the inside of my hotel room and the office.  and that’s about it.

the good:  i’ve learned a lot during my sessions, and learned how i have about a million terrible public speaking habits.  it’s funny… i was so trained from radio school that it doesn’t matter how you look when you say things, just as long as it sounds good… and we learned today that how you appear while speaking is like 60% of what people pay attention to.  how you sound is about 30% and what you actually say is at 10%.  so it has been useful to tune up my presentation skills.  also good, i hope is the dinner i have ordered and am waiting for.  i’m in a pimp tight hotel suite with a kitchen, but no room service… so i ordered from one of those online things where they pick up food from restaurants.  i ordered from apparently one of the best jamaican jerk restaurants in the city.  got the jerk chicken & pork dinner with salad and rice & beans, and plantains and a ting.  i am stoked, as i am fucking STARVING. 

so overall, this has been pretty good.  but i am exhausted.  last night i had some wack nightmare that woke me up at 2am.  and i couldn’t sleep again for about an hour.  totally sucked.  considering i got up at 3:15am on monday to start the journey here, and that it’s 3 hours ahead, so it’s been like getting up at 4am every morning, i am just spent.  i am so happy that it’s good friday when i get home.  i’m going to sleep alllllll weekend to catch up.

alright.  i am going to drink my strongbows and wait for my food.  i really hope it comes soon… it’s already 9pm here.  and did i mention that i’m fucking starving?  yes.