magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

'So I assume,' I said to Chris.W this morning, 'that since I haven't heard anything about going to California for the West Coast Rivalry project, that I'm not.'

'That's probably the case. But I'm going into a meeting in just a couple of minutes and will ask again.' And later he told me that the impression he got was that 'it's mainly Jack Morton people going, and they don't really see you as part of their group, they see you as a PDGer.'

'That's really just great. You know that the general impression over here at PDG is that I'm permanently attached to the Bank team. It's like I'm adrift in a blowup yellow raft in international waters. I'm a man without a country.'