I'm Afraid of Americans (Thank you, Bowie and Nine Inch Nails)

[bleedsdaylight]

I’m sitting in a meeting in Fruitland Park, Florida, (near Leesburg, which is significant to

But overall, I don’t think I can do meetings/conferences in the US anymore. It’s not that I don’t find a lot of the people (but not many of them) to be pleasant and considerate. It’s all the cultural assumptions in the language of the meetings that get me

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[bleedsdaylight]

See now, everyone here thought I was lying, but you confirmed in a most excellent way!

So... there...

*return smooches*

[mason5280]

Nick took the words right out of my mouth!

As I have lived and flurished here now for the last three months, I think back on all the conferences, etc. that I have attended and it sickens me how the attitude has always been that the US is the Center of the world and everything revolves around it. When you escape that vortex, you realize it's anything BUT the center.

[bleedsdaylight]

hehehe

Well, it's an interesting dynamic... it's just so hard to get my head around being here... but the country produces some DAMN fine men! :P

And women...

But the men... :-)