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...in the Netherlands. Maastricht is a beautiful city, and walkable when staying slightly more towards the center of town than I am. It is a good brisk half hour walk to get anywhere. The city buses run frequently, but figuring out the bus schedule and map is like decoding a cypher. Needs far more brain power than I've currently got.
The meeting's social event was lovely last night. We began the evening with a bagpipe and drum corps playing us "Scotland the Brave" - which is not really Dutch, but whatever.
The meeting is more than half over - and I can not wait to go home on Saturday, spend Sunday just vegging out and recovering. Knock on wood I haven't contracted a horrible illness, yet, but I did have a minor bout of stomach upset last night, and was physically ill around 1am. But I went back to bed, ate sparingly for breakfast and felt mostly fine the rest of the day.
I am scheduled off tomorrow morning, and will be taking advantage to sleep in to about 8:15, 8:30-ish. I've been the least social of the staff (no one is surprised, right?) but bars have never been my scene. I've hung out three times in bars in the last week, and the social event last night, I think I've been more social at this meeting than any meeting in recent memory. Of course I was usually SICK at the last few meetings I went to, so playing hermit was understandable. This time, I am not sick, but I've been out too late a few times.
I work for the area directors of the meeting - 15 guys (currently all male). Only 14 are in attendance, since one of them is home at the very top of the kidney transplant list. His kidneys were removed right after the March meeting, and his body chemistry changed to such a point that the home dialysis he's carted around the world for the past few years as his kidneys got worse and worse would no longer work, so he has to be within distance of his hospital to go get treatment every third day.
He's been on standby twice in the past few weeks - which is a difficult place to be. We're all pulling for him. He is one of the nicest guys around.
It is a lovely 70 degrees here - which is quite a change from both home and Orlando. Ah well.
I am going to watch some TV and get to bed early tonight. Commercials are so much easier to ignore when they are in a foreign language.
The meeting's social event was lovely last night. We began the evening with a bagpipe and drum corps playing us "Scotland the Brave" - which is not really Dutch, but whatever.
The meeting is more than half over - and I can not wait to go home on Saturday, spend Sunday just vegging out and recovering. Knock on wood I haven't contracted a horrible illness, yet, but I did have a minor bout of stomach upset last night, and was physically ill around 1am. But I went back to bed, ate sparingly for breakfast and felt mostly fine the rest of the day.
I am scheduled off tomorrow morning, and will be taking advantage to sleep in to about 8:15, 8:30-ish. I've been the least social of the staff (no one is surprised, right?) but bars have never been my scene. I've hung out three times in bars in the last week, and the social event last night, I think I've been more social at this meeting than any meeting in recent memory. Of course I was usually SICK at the last few meetings I went to, so playing hermit was understandable. This time, I am not sick, but I've been out too late a few times.
I work for the area directors of the meeting - 15 guys (currently all male). Only 14 are in attendance, since one of them is home at the very top of the kidney transplant list. His kidneys were removed right after the March meeting, and his body chemistry changed to such a point that the home dialysis he's carted around the world for the past few years as his kidneys got worse and worse would no longer work, so he has to be within distance of his hospital to go get treatment every third day.
He's been on standby twice in the past few weeks - which is a difficult place to be. We're all pulling for him. He is one of the nicest guys around.
It is a lovely 70 degrees here - which is quite a change from both home and Orlando. Ah well.
I am going to watch some TV and get to bed early tonight. Commercials are so much easier to ignore when they are in a foreign language.