today was the company's quarterly meeting. i pretty much went for the free cookie. the meeting basically consisted of listening to our president move through a long, dull powerpoint presentation in which throngs of acronyms and numbers occasionally gave way to cheesy clipart. supposedly the speech was in english, but the president's accent was so heavy the only thing i could actually decipher was the company name and the "thank you" at the end. i watched the people around me for context clues and, when they clapped, i put down my cookie and clapped along, too.