back alive

i’m back from the abyss. ok, just being melodramatic, seeing as i’m just back from a hellish week of work, which is little to complain about since hmc has weeks like this all the time. basically i was up at 5 or 6 every day, driving down to corporate for all day meetings or sales seminars, and then prepping for a big presentation later in the week, and then spending the evenings in business and customer dinners, not getting home until 10 or 11. just a little tiring, that’s all. definitely a beautiful luxury to be able to sleep in on the weekends.

i was sitting in sales training this week, and while the content was good, i’m thinking, “how many times can they present the same stuff in a different way?” there are several prevalent theories on successful selling, but really, at some point they’re just variations on the same thing, and how many times do they need to drill them into you? i guess since they keep increasing your quota, they feel obligated to say that they helped you try to attain it.

oh, and i watched seabiscuit, since it was up for best picture, and it was actually really good. yes, it was pretty mainstream and kind of a tearjerker in a orchestrated root for the underdog sort of way, but it was very well done, and i certainly had my tears jerked several times. there was one part at the end where it was a little too melodramatic, but otherwise, it was pretty good. so much that if it actually won best picture, i wouldn’t be outraged. i wouldn’t say it’s better than lotr: return of the king or lost in translation, both of which i loved, and i haven’t seen mystic river or master and commander, so i can’t compare it to them.