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cosmolinguistMy big achievement of today was fixing a problem I found out about yesterday: a meeting I was very excited to get invited to next Tuesday turned out to be an in-person thing in London.
Which wouldn't be a big deal except I already have to be in London on Thursday.
Tuesday is the most inconvenient day to add to this! I've done two and even three days of London events in a row, but I didn't want to have to impose on a friend to stay with for that long or stay in a budget hotel on my own for that long or make day trips to and from London on two out of three days.
I cannot move or get out of Thursday (it's going to be an absolutely ghastly event; I'm on a panel), and Tuesday is a big win to get involved with an organization we haven't before and that it'd be really useful to be involved with, and again it has to be me.
But since it's some new people, they had offered to have a chat with me to talk about how they could ensure the meeting will be accessible to me. And that meeting happened to be arranged for this afternoon. My only idea was to ask them if I could join on Teams.
So when it came around, I mentioned this, and these two nice guys said "Well it's funny you mention that actually because there's going to be tube strikes which will make it difficult for a lot of people to get to our office. So we might move it anyway, but yeah if we don't we have the AV stuff in the office for the meeting to be hybrid."
I was so relieved! It was difficult not to let it show too obviously on my face.
So yeah, now I don't even know if this meeting I care about will happen next week, but either way I can do it on Teams instead of going to London!
It's nice when things work out in my favor.
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Date: 2026-05-27 09:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-05-27 09:25 pm (UTC)Yeah it did occur to me that even though my job is about dealing with problems and failures of public transport, in this case I have been saved by a disruption to public transport!
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Date: 2026-05-27 11:58 pm (UTC)