So work sucked... and then it didn't...

I thought today would be the day where I would finally get to leave the office early and head out to XinTianDi (a nice shopping mall/development in the middle of the city) and find foreigners to survey about health care... but nay, instead my boss called for a marketing staff meeting from 1:30 to 4:00. Okay, so not the excitement I had planned but sometimes the meetings give an interesting look at hospital operations or new marketing gimmicks (like umbrellas with our logo. Alas, wrong again. This afternoon we met from 1:30 to 5:30 to discuss where everyone was with their current projects... ideally, this would have been a constructive and informative meeting... it was not so.

When the discussion went off on the eight or ninth tangent (I think about the proper coloring of the pens we are ordering... clearly a decision for the whole marketing team) and I had finished using my shoe to clean up all the stray marks on the floor around my desk I was finally saved by Dr. Moreton who called me out of the room to talk about how the surveying was going. We ended up wandering over to Brilliance Mall for dinner after work and he agreed to postpone the surveying until the weather got a little more humane and more expats were back in town... happy days! So instead I'll be working with the web developer to revamp the website which is painfully outdated with content almost exclusively about Beijing.

Sarah just picked up the cats, and while they were nice to have around for a weekend, and I was glad to do a favor for a co-worker, I am absolutely, 100% a dog person. Off now to I Love Shanghai for a few cocktails... pictures coming soon, I promise.