Exhausted

This morning, I got dragged into doing a conference call with organiser of DCCT in America. I was quite nervous at the beginning, but was lucky that our side didn't have to make any comment for the first hour, so I had time to get into the flow of conversation. The people in America were also rather tired, so were rather laid-back as they probably are normally. The issue continued to be on the funding of the cost of inviting speakers. They honestly had a major muck-up, which could have been easily avoided if they heard from sponsors about how much they were willing to fund earlier. HP has been a major problem in that it wants to do things its way (ie has their names and speakers on the important panel of the convention), but is still unwilling to provide more financial contribution. This sort of financial issues isn't really in my team's control, but we still had to sit through 4 hours of discussion. I didn't get to have lunch till 2, but I got a free lunch again!

My office is more involved in organising and preparing the actual convention, and today, only the second day at work, I was told that I was in charge of organising the showcase area. This means, I have to be in contact wigh the exhibitors from overseas about various issues they might have (such as shipping their stuff over) and be there to help them on the days of convention. I am also in control of additional staff that I will be able to boss around at the showcase! Actually, the most exciting thing is that I get to interview the applicants for the job!

There continued to be translation jobs on paper every now and then throughout the day. Couldn't get off work until 6:45...