four days of numbers
Number of hours spent worrying that my shuttle wouldn't get me to the airport on time: 2
Number of books taken along this week and mostly neglected in favor of shenanigans and free cable tv: 2
Number of fluffy pillows piled atop my enormous hotel bed: 5
Number of awesome color-change cups received and immediately filled with ice: 1
Number of laughs and snarky comments uttered (total by all parties): COUNTLESS
Number of hours spent on the phone getting to know my date for Saturday: 8
Number of times my meal orders got screwed up by various establishments: 4
Number of cool new things learned during our three days of training: lots and lots
Number of post-training stints spent relaxing at the hotel "honor bar" with the lovely Joanna and various free snacks: 2
Number of sweet-and-funny new work buddies made from other offices: 1
Number of times that I had the pleasure of seeing this week's ep of Flight of the Conchords: 1 1/4
Number of times that I squeed verily at the sight of Jemaine in a shiny silver leotard, Bret's dejected bulimia denials, and John Hodgman (!) as a humorless musical greeting card bigwig: tons!
Number of times we likely almost got stopped for wacky driving while trying to find our way back to NC today: 2
Number of hours spent cooling our heels at the airport waiting for our outgoing flight: 4.5
Number of terrible, watery margaritas drank in this time: 2
All in all, training ended up being pretty fun and fairly interesting. The airport stuff was crazy, but we got to meet lots of great people within our company and learned plenty of new stuff. Woo. My verdict on North and South Carolina is TREES! So many lovely trees to see, did we! Joanna is completely fun and amazing and I see us being very good buddies--I couldn't have asked for a better trip-buddy. I could say more, I'm sure, but my bed is calling. And just when I was getting used to getting up at 7:30 am instead of 6:00 am, too! ;)
Number of books taken along this week and mostly neglected in favor of shenanigans and free cable tv: 2
Number of fluffy pillows piled atop my enormous hotel bed: 5
Number of awesome color-change cups received and immediately filled with ice: 1
Number of laughs and snarky comments uttered (total by all parties): COUNTLESS
Number of hours spent on the phone getting to know my date for Saturday: 8
Number of times my meal orders got screwed up by various establishments: 4
Number of cool new things learned during our three days of training: lots and lots
Number of post-training stints spent relaxing at the hotel "honor bar" with the lovely Joanna and various free snacks: 2
Number of sweet-and-funny new work buddies made from other offices: 1
Number of times that I had the pleasure of seeing this week's ep of Flight of the Conchords: 1 1/4
Number of times that I squeed verily at the sight of Jemaine in a shiny silver leotard, Bret's dejected bulimia denials, and John Hodgman (!) as a humorless musical greeting card bigwig: tons!
Number of times we likely almost got stopped for wacky driving while trying to find our way back to NC today: 2
Number of hours spent cooling our heels at the airport waiting for our outgoing flight: 4.5
Number of terrible, watery margaritas drank in this time: 2
All in all, training ended up being pretty fun and fairly interesting. The airport stuff was crazy, but we got to meet lots of great people within our company and learned plenty of new stuff. Woo. My verdict on North and South Carolina is TREES! So many lovely trees to see, did we! Joanna is completely fun and amazing and I see us being very good buddies--I couldn't have asked for a better trip-buddy. I could say more, I'm sure, but my bed is calling. And just when I was getting used to getting up at 7:30 am instead of 6:00 am, too! ;)