It's been a long week of meetings after meetings. I've averaged about 7 hours of meetings for the first 4 days of this week. Fortunately, tomorrow I get a day off meetings, so I get to sit at my desk and do work instead. The thing about meetings is, someone's always sleepy. At 1:30pm or 2:00pm today, we had 16 people in a meeting, and 4 people dozing or taking "power naps away from the action". Even the project lead was sitting beside me doing "the bob". It was humorous in a now-I-don't-feel-so-bad kind of way.

I think I learned something. In meetings, you can always tell who's about to sleep by the frequency of their eye blinks. I noticed that when I am about to fall asleep, I have an extremely hard time keeping my eyes in focus, so I blink vigorously. I often wonder whether my eyes just focus differently in depth, or whether they go crossed. Anyway, the point is, I blink lots. Now, if there's a guy in the corner blinking lots WHILE twitching, he's got other problems... just stay away from him.

Each quarter, during the week of meetings, we have lunch provided (the lunchboxes I've talked about), and one good meal on one of two companies. Yesterday, we had the good meal for lunch. We went to a Japanese all-u-can-eat, and it was the bestest all-u-can-eat Japanese I think I've ever had. Or... perhaps it just felt that way because those lunchboxes do something weird to your stomach. As I would've at home, I took the opportunity to stuff myself with sashimi. But, as my oyster incident in China should have warned me, it isn't wise to eat too much seafood in Asia, where ever you are. And by the fourth trip to the washroom that afternoon, I was very well reminded. I don't regret it. I'm stubborn. I'd do it again if I could.

For the last couple of weeks, I've been entertained by a show called Monk starring Tony Shalboub as an OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) detective who can't help stand the sight of anything unorderly or dirty. It's a hilarious show, and apparently has been getting some pretty good reviews. Anyway, it's my new favorite show here.

My sister's on the plane over right now. So I will see her in less than 24 hrs. Hope you're having a good flight, Nel! Yay!

Anyway, it's past 10pm, so I'm heading home. With my sis on her way, it also means my laptop's on its way... which means I don't have to stay at work to email! Double yay!