Morning all. I'm back to some semblance of normalcy.
The trip to DC was successful though we won't know for a while if anything comes of our efforts. My train trip went without incident both to DC and back from DC. I do wish I would have had a couple of hours to wander in DC or even an hour to walk around Union Station.
I got back home at 7pm after leaving the house at 6:30am for a 7:15 train. My best intentions were to work on the Tuesday morning presentation but I threw that idea out the window as I sat on the Number 1 train heading to 18th Street. I got home, Anthony put on his shoes and we went back out to the Hollywood Diner on the corner for a light dinner of soup and sandwiches (yes, we could have made those at home but I just spent 12 hours in work mode and we would have needed to wash dishes, etc so I chose the diner).
We then came home, Anthony made a phone call and after that I went to bed.
I got up early and came to the office to put together the 5 minute version of my presentation for the Henry Luce Foundation. It was surprisingly easy. I whittled down a 15 minute presentation to just 4 PowerPoint slides and 4 minutes of notes and then I rehearsed. Spontaneity requires rehearsal, at least for me. I don't have to memorize it but I have to know it so well it feels like it's memorized. The presentation went very well. My upper level boss (my bosses boss) complimented me and I was happy. That took the entire morning. Then after lunch I had a project that needed to be finished "yesterday" which I finally finished at 3:55pm. I leave at 4pm so I just left 5 minutes early.
I now have a host of other projects to finish, all of which are PRIORITY ONE. We shall see which one gets finished first.
That's all for now.
Bye