Wednesday

Oct, 10, 2001

another speech

I have a speech today. Also one of my buddies has to give one that someone else wrote who didn't show up. So I have to lug my laptop to the conference again and be a little nervous although not much. I'll survive. I know that. Still. It's easier being a spectator only at these conferences, trust me.

I get through it, everything is fine. The conference is almost over, the exhibition is over and I have to do an employee conference tomorrow so it is over for me.

Another guy shows up from Houston and a couple of guys from London and eventually a whole gang of us go eat at an outdoor place in the Piazza della Republica. We have a lively time.

I have a single nightcap (really) and go to bed. I have to give a presentation tomorrow and I really have no clue how to conduct it. Oh. Well.

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."

John Lennon, "Imagine"

Meta:
We'll just be keeping Lennon's radical lyrics here indefinitely. I'm updating this after the fact. Which means, of course, that I forget even more than usual.

JUST TYPING
I don't think I'd like a career just speaking and speaking. Without time for reflection and creation.