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Todd is my first official call at my new job. I love his radio-announcer voice;
too bad he's a lawyer. He says it's time to go over the Web development contract,
so I pull it from my Web development folder, which is under a pile of stuff I
have no idea how to cope with.
I smile while I talk to him because if you look like you're happy then you sound happy, and he's on our Board, so I think he approves my raises. "Did you get a chance to read the contract?" he says. We go over his changes and I approve them as if I can read a contract. He says, "Do you have any changes?" I say, "Yeah, on page 22, it's the wrong kind of effect. It should be with an A not an E." He says, "Let me read it." We have silence. He says, "I think it should be an E." I say, "I don't think it's an E. It's modifying a noun." He says, "Let me read it." I say, "This is sort of a joke if we don't even know what this says enough to know if the sentence needs a noun or a verb." He laughs. I say, "Let's cut this sentence." He says, "OK." He says, "I'm impressed." I think this means he likes my voice. I can't wait until we have a Board meeting. He says, "Any other changes you want?" I say, "Yeah, on page 43 you rewrote section 15.8 to say, 'professional and workmanlike fashion.' I think that's bad for women."
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