Yesterday was a good day but a very long one! I was in this one advanced session. I actually wanted to go to the Windows Vista Help session, but it was cancelled so I went to the DITA tools session for my co-worker. I am still pretty clueless about DITA but I wanted to gather some information for him. I got pretty bored at that session so I started picking at my split ends (horrible habit, I know). The woman to my left said out loud "you are distracting me with that...that ", and she did some hand motions. A little shocked, I just stopped what I was doing, and then I got pissed off.

When she sat down, the first thing I noticed was her dry, cracked heels, and they distracted me too, but I didn't say anything. And she was rather rude and presumptuous. Even though she didn't ask me to stop doing anything, I did anyway...And it really wasn't my problem that she was being distracted because I wasn't distracting her. Maybe she should have been paying better attention to the speaker.

But it was all better by the end of the session...My session was called "Analysing DITA Tools" or something like that, and it was noted that the session was for advanced users. So at the end of the sessions, she pipes up to the speaker, "what is DITA exactly?" Uh...duuuuuuh. BWAHAHHAHA So I felt better knowing that she was an idiot. Then I started wondering if what she said to me would have made a difference if she didn't have that South African accent.

I tried my best to hurry to the Fashion Show Mall after my sessions yesterday. I was so relieved my last session ended early, but the I was thwarted by some conversation with this lady from Florida. She was really cool...was working for a county jail and was just itching to get out of the biz to become a tech writer. She was thrilled because I was the first Canadian she'd ever met. BWAHAHHAA When we met up in the session, there was a woman from Quebec, too. So the Floridian asked us, "since you're both from Canada, did you come together?" I wasn't expecting such a question...I thought these types happened to everyone but me.

I couldn't stop laughing, and she looked a little confused. BC and Quebec are on the opposite sides of Canada. And then when I got to the mall, I was stopped by someone trying to sell me skin care products (and I let him talk me into buying stuff. At least my Mother's Day gift has been taken care of.). And while he was trying to sell me stuff, he asked me out. Who knows if he'll call.

I was kind of embarrassed, and he kept commenting on how shy I was. His manager kept saying how she loved Asian features...the hair, the eyes...She kept touching my hair and saying how gorgeous I was. She was so funny (and totally beautiful).

The best session yesterday was definitely about the changing English language. One Canadian commented that it's because of Americans that the English language is eroding. He got a lot of "oooh"s, but you know, I have to agree with him. That reminds me, when did "deplane" make it into the dictionary? The first time I heard it was 5 years ago, and I thought it was the weirdest thing.