4/26/06 Today Without Patty ...

by Gloria

Today we are “Patty-less” again, but Patty did call from Chicago, where she and Kate are attending the Women Presidents’ Organization conference, to blog for all of you readers out there who hang on her every word.

Yesterday Patty wore her capri pants, which she said used to be called “pedal pushers” back in the olden days when she was young, and said she felt like a dork walking around in the freezing Chicago weather. Today, however, Chicago isn’t quite so mind-numbingly cold.

Last night Patty and Kate attended a planning meeting that went on for a long, long time and covered a bunch of stuff they hadn’t known about, so they reluctantly ditched their plan to go pub-crawling. Instead they returned to their hotel room and went back to work. They ordered some unbelievably bad Chinese food from a place called “Yang’s” and spent the rest of the night hunched over their laptops. Ah, the glamor of PR.

This morning they hustled off to a WPO facilitators meeting where they received kudos for the press MMI has garnered for WPO this past year. They have spent most of this afternoon working and in almost constant telephone-and-instant-message contact with the rest of us here at the office.

Tonight they will attend Mary Cantando’s book launch party and then another meeting, the WPO tenth anniversary planning session. Sixty people will be there, and Patty is dismayed, because it will take two hours for everyone just to introduce themselves, let alone get any real work done. Ever hear of a committee of 60?

There’s Something About Mari … Mari has been pestering Patty to write more about her in the blog. Patty quotes some of Mari’s “lies” from Mari’s whiney e-mail:

“You could write something NICE about me for once—there’s much to say in that department—what an excellent cook I am, how I fed you and got you through college, my expertise in nursing, motherhood and grandmotherhood, my innate fashion sense, especially my shoes and sandals, and of course, there’s my bell-ringing skills!”

But Mari, with all this WPO conference stuff, Patty can’t deal with you right now. Besides, she says your mother’s check is late.

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