27th May 2008
My night was just ruined
Ugh. I could cry.
How do people keep up with their email? Seriously? It’s the bane of my existence, that and T&E expenses, which have cost me a personal fortune. I could make a down payment on a 3 bedroom in NYC with what I’ve mismanaged in T&E expenses.
Where was I? Oh yes, how ESOMAR ruined my night. ESOMAR is some French acronym for a prestigious international research body. A few years ago I spoke at one of their annual conferences in Montreal. Since then, I’ve routinely ignored their emails, since they haven’t invited me to speak again.
If I didn’t mention, I get a lot of email. I don’t know how many; I don’t like to count. Hundreds a day, I’m sure, including newsletters (from organizations like ESOMAR) and lots of other stuff. Most of it I file without reading. Such as ESOMAR.
But reading an email from a colleague, she mentions that she’s going to be out next week at the annual ESOMAR conference, being held in Budapest.
Hello? Or should I say Halo? (Hungarians will tell you that “hello” is derived from a Hungarian world based on Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, who was Hungarian, who answered the first phone call. Hungarians say “halo” for “hello” and claim it has something to do with the verb to hear, halni, but I think it’s all a dubious wishful thinking. In fact, I seem to recall it dates back to Shakespeare.)
Point is, I lived in Budapest for five frickin’ years! I have tons of friends there. Had I known ESOMAR was taking place in Budapest this year, I definitely would have boondoggled it! Why, why, why did no one tell me? <sob>
Tags: budapest, hungary, market research
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