Weekend Recap

The company holiday party was outstanding Friday night. I'd heard stories months in advance about how my employer goes all out for this party, and that's exactly what happened. What a huge event it was. The theme was something like "Take Me Around The World" or something, and for the several thousand people in attendance, all five or six of the ballrooms on the ballroom floor at the Hilton in Midtown represented a different continent.

There was karaoke in the Asia room, an aboriginal man playing a didgeridoo outside the Australia room, salsa dancing in the Latin America room, bad bass music and a casino in the USA room and Europe I didn't really check out too wholeheartedly. But there were drinks and food unique to those locations in each of the rooms, with plenty of servers roaming around and never a bar too far away.

I had no idea how many beautiful women work for my company. I'll just leave it at that.

Shortly before the party ended, I caught up with my high school homecoming date. Remember Lisa? She and some of her people dragged me down the street to some Irish pub, where two women visiting from Chicago bought all of my drinks, presumably because I'm quite charming. A handful of us ended up in my neigborhood later, at my local Irish joint, the Trinity Pub. No further details are available.

Saturday was supposed to be productive, but got off to a late and sluggish start. I grabbed lunch with my friend Kristen and then returned to the couch, hoping to catch the end of the Louisville-UK game and then watch OSU-Cincinnati. Next thing I knew, I was waking up on the couch at about 6 o'clock and realized I hadn't accomplished anything.

It turns out that a gal I met at the company party the night before lives near me and was having her own holiday party on Saturday night. That too was excellent. Being from the sleepy midwest, I'd never previously had so much interaction with Jewish people, but there's no shortage of them here in NYC.

So I put the holiday shopping off until Sunday, and that ended up being quite fruitful. A very late dinner with Madeleine was OK since I don't have to work today. So all I need to do is get this stuff in the mail today and everything should arrive on time, or maybe by the 28th. It's funny; all my adult life I've worked in a deadline-driven business and yet outside of my work, I absolutely hate deadlines and seldom meet them. I think I'll think about that for a while today while I go back to the couch. Screw the post office.