Work is less than ordinary this week since I have not one, but two special events. On Tuesday, I had to wake up bright and early, and get to work by 7:45AM for a light breakfast (oops 5 minutes late) and then an 8-9:30AM meeting with the head of IBM Canada, Dan Fortin. This was only the second time I’ve been to the 3600 location, but apparently the executive pod has their own elevator that’s separated from the general entrance.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Diversity issues and to make Dan aware of the issues we’re facing and that are important for the various demographics. What I was most surprised about was that some people got really dressed up for this; i.e., they came in suit and tie. Well, at least I wore a button-up shirt and (non-jean) pants.

On Thursday, I had training for a day. It’s not that special because I didn’t get to train off-site like last time, but it’s a break from the normal routine.

Ooh a bonus event, although not necessarily special, is that I found out that my IEEE magazine article got rejected. Reading the results, I was surprised that there were only 55 submissions for the issue, although 89% of them got rejected. I guess that’s not too bad, but I just want to stop having to work on this topic!

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