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We had a Merchandising meeting solidly from 9 a.m. to noon today, and then directly afterward, Gabby took Amy and me out for lunch at Moto Pizza a block away—almost certainly because, after last Friday's announcement that we will get a new office location next year, I piped in with Gabby and Amy that we'll need to go to lunch there several more times before we moved. I didn't expect her to send a lunch invite so soon; it came late in the work day just yesterday.
All of which is to say: this is why today's post is so much later than usual. Under normal circumstances I might just write it off, say I can't post today, and catch you up on everything tomorrow. But, I'm off tomorrow for the Washington State Fair, so there won't be a Daily Lunch Update tomorrow either. I have yet another event to attend with Shobhit tonight. My weekend is more open than usual, to be fair, but I still can't stomach the idea of waiting until Saturday to catch up on everything since
Wednesday. I can't do it!
I still need to try to be quick. I'm really supposed to be working right now.
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Last night was Action Movie Night. There were ten in attendance; I counted multiple times: Tony, Jake, Ben, Chris B, Sean, Daniel, two different guys who only occasionally come and I only have seen once or twice before so I don't remember their names, Shobhit, and me.
Jake did an unusual thing and brought six footlong sub sandwiches, two of them vegetarian. He even emailed the list and said there won't really be any need for others to bring food, so for the first time ever, Shobhit and I did not make or bring any food. Between the two of us I think we each at the equivalent of three quarters of one sub sandwich. They weren't overly special, but they were pretty good.
Sean was the person given choice of movie this week—rather surprisng to me, as he just had a choice in July, only two months and four movies ago. It usually takes six months to run through the cycle, and I am not on the schedule right now until December, fully
seven months after my last turn. So I have no idea what bumped Sean up like that, or if there's some organizational rhyme or reason to what Tony is doing with the schedule.
Sean's choice was
Blade (1998), which was funny to me because Beth tried to get me to watch that when she was staying with us in July, and I quickly lost interest. Now I was a captive audience and would have no choice but to watch the movie. It cracked me up, I had to text Beth a screenshot of the title card and tell her. She nearly immediately responded with a voice note of just her laughing ("Hahaha! Hahaha-haha! Hahaha!"), followed by the text,
I love this for youuuuuuu
Shobhit declared at the end of the movie that it was really good for the first 75% of it and then it turned into a bad movie. This kind of cracked me up. That movie is bad from start to finish. Tony, who apparently
loves that movie, was beyond thrilled. "You just made my year!" he said, as soon as he saw the title.
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So that brings us to lunch today . . . finally. There's not a huge amount for me to tell you about that, except that because we walked over at about 12:15 as opposed to 11:30 like we did last time, the place was shockingly busy. We didn't even get our pizzas until about 12:30, and they weren't quite as good as last time either, I would say mostly because they weren't as fresh and hot. They were still tasty, though, and I still look forward to going back again.
Gabby once again insisted on buying us lunch. She said she owed us as a thank-you for the coverage during her two weeks vacation. I was like, "You owe Amy maybe, but you certainly don't owe me." I did really nothing in her stead while Gabby was gone; Amy did it all, as the two of them work on promotions of any sort that does not involve keying records into HQ (that's my purview).
But, whatever. I never, ever have any shame in accepting generosities from people. It does amuse me, though, that as a result of being taken out for lunch, today I am getting breakfast, lunch
and dinner provided for me. "Breakfast" is kind of loosely defined, but I did skip the full bowl of cereal at home this morning because I knew we'd be provided pastries at the beginning of our three-hour team meeting this morning.
We spent a fair amount of time talking about the meeting over lunch, and about work related stuff. And then, plans we all have over the weekend. It was a very pleasant lunch and I appreciated it.
Now I have two
more meetings between 2:30 and 3:30, whee! So I need to spend the next 45 minutes or so attempting to get some actual work done. To be fair I actually snuck in a bit of work on my laptop during the meeting. There are too many things that are critical I get done today, largely because I'll be out of the office tomorrow. I got a very early start for the hour or so before we all met for the meeting this morning.
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