C’est aujourd’hui le grand depart. Je vole sur Swiss en classe cargo (c’est trop pres, l’Europe?), a.k.a. “Starship Edelweiss”. Okay, peut etre pas litteralement. N’empeche, je vais faire au moins une heureuse et continuer la “mood-adaptive playlist” (c’est un nom genial, et j’attends la tienne?). Evidemment, comme c’est moi, ca sera pas super serieux. Esperons que les suisses ne lisent pas ca ou qu’ils aient un sens de l’humour tres… neutre.
Ca c’etait l’originale. Tristounet, non?
Heureusement qu’il y a un remix nettement plus… disons… flyé
Comme dit la madame anglaise sur Air France (wo, pas pris depuis un bout c’t'affaire la) — “Bon Voyage!”
and see you on the other side of the tyrol. (ce post n’a aucun sens, et je blame entierement la U pression du maple leaf lounge a YUL. Boarding time, I’m out)
My full time employment with this company started on July 17, 2006. But I started sort of part time exactly two years ago, on June 20th.
There would be a lot to tell, but I’ll just go with the top 5 funny/awkward moments I can think of off the top of my head:
Receiving an e-mail addressed to “Scoot” (Scott). We still call him Scoot to tease him.
My manager sending an invite to a “Lick-off meeting” for a big project
Having a developer tell us “I’m having trouble finding my way in the back-end” in a design meeting
Being asked “What did Jesus say?” by a coworker (about a customer in Latin America named Jesus — but my coworker pronounced ‘Jesus’ the English way)
Having this huge Dominican guy tell me in broken, heavily accented English “we have to solve problema soon, or you do not go back to Canada next week.” Yeah, we solved it.
Haha — yeah I’m tired. 4 days in Santo Domingo and all I’ve seen is a training room, a corner office (not mine, but still — shouldn’t complain I guess) and my freaking habitación. The room service guy is my buddy, and as I’m eating my second club sandwich I feel like I’m missing out. Tu parles.
Oui, je prends le métro pour l’environnement, par activisme urbain, pour sauver quelques dollars, tout ca. Mais la cerise sur le gateau, c’est la pub.
« Si le métro vous menait aussi loin qu’une Stride (la gomme qui dure ridiculement longtemps) ». Le slogan est bon, mais l’affiche est excellente – un spoof du plan du métro de Montréal (l’original à coté pour comparer)
I’ve been to a few of these already, although except for Chicago it was either a long time ago or for a very short stay (Toronto, NYC, Vancouver). Buenos Aires, Hong Kong and London almost made the list, but I wanted to keep it at ten cities so something had to give.
At this point I think Toronto is a sure shot, and Chicago, NYC, DC and Pittsburgh all seem pretty likely — say two out of those four. We’ll see how well we’ve done a year from now.
How do you know when someone truly cares? Well, in my case it’s when they get you a book about Roadside coffee shop architecture of the 50’s in the Los Angeles area. It is just so appropriate — it’s pretty cool that she found something I wouldn’t even have thought to ask for.
How do you know when someone truly cares? Well, in my case it’s when they get you a book about