A pretty ordinary Wednesday, all things considered.
We had a team meeting this morning, during which I got to briefly show off the book I recently had publish. Technical issues kept the UK half of our team from being heard for a good ten or fifteen minutes, which was weird. We could see them on the video conference screen and they could hear us, but IT had to be called in at their end. A coworker said it was like watching an aquarium, which it kind of was, although I don’t usually wonder if while I’m watching the fish they’re maybe talking about me.
Although maybe from now I will.
After that, there was one of our brown bag lunches, with guest speaker Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor for the New Yorker. He talked about the psychology of humor, how the magazine selects the cartoons it prints, and answered questions. He also confirmed something I’d often heard, namely that David Mamet has submitted cartoons to the magazine. (Discovering his Huffington Post cartoons, I can see why he’d previously been rejected.) Finally, Mankoff announced the winner of our office caption contest. I didn’t win, probably because I didn’t enter — I couldn’t think of caption by yesterday’s deadline — but the whole presentation was interesting and fun.
And you know, a free lunch. True, it was Subway sandwiches, which are to real sandwiches what David Mamet cartoons are to real ones, but that’s okay. I’m not complaining.
It was a pretty decent Wednesday.
So strange to see that the leaves are just falling where you are, and we’re already snowed in (and expecting another dump of snow this weekend).
Your brown bag lunches sound pretty great – Robert Mankoff? Good heavens. We had tea and cookies with the mental health team yesterday.