There was an unannounced meeting this morning for the bowl at 9 am, which was awesome because I had not prepared one thing for it, having not known about it. Luckily, no one else got the memo either, so half of the regular attendants weren't even there. It was a nice small group, and luckily there was no need for updated materials, as there was no one to present updated materials to. Typically, we have a 9 AM Monday morning meeting with the Bowl, and a 10 AM meeting for the Championship. By typically, I mean that we will have the meetings on some Mondays, but should apparently be ready for them every week. Note to self. Anyways, on our way to the next meeting, there was a traffic jam in the reception area of Raycom. Literally, at least 30 people were standing in the reception area crowded around a 32" flat screen, watching the 21 year old American teammate on the Ryder Cup, Jeff Overton, make an incredible shot towards the end of the tournament. It was pretty hilarious, actually. Will Webb literally announced to the front office that our meeting was going to be pushed back 10 minutes. When we finally made it to the board room, we opened the blinds to the window that faced the television, which meant that NO ONE was paying attention to the meeting, and that everyone, except for Will Webb, watched the US lose the Ryder Cup.
Other than that, we worked on some of our ongoing projects for most of the day. One of those projects was to make sure people who've purchased ACC championship tickets have actually payed for them. One of our fabulous customers didn't even realize she had purchased tickets. She said she was an SEC fan and didn't have any reason to purchase the ACC tickets (although we had records of her doing so). Any guesses as to which school this clever customer was a fan of? That's right University of South Carolina. Clever bunch of folks, aren't they? Sarah's dad came into the office today to meet the group and take her out to lunch. Sarah and I have actually talked a lot about family and friends. It's been cool to get to know her on a personal level, and it was nice to put a face with the name of one of the people she's told me about.
At 4 we headed over to the Stadium to begin planning for the Coaches Reception in Suite 87. Liz Ballenger took us around to show us how guests would enter, where each of the food stations etc...would be set up, and what we needed to order to bring in. We talked menus too, and I am going to have their chef send us some different options to decide between. We asked Liz about how they created meals for all the suites and she said that at the beginning of each season the chefs will cook EVERYTHING on the menu for any new suites. That way the person in charge of that suite will know what each thing is supposed to look like and will no whether or not they need to send it back to the kitchen if it looks under cooked or whatever. So they have this huge taste testing around June. I told Liz that it is a possibility that I will be unemployed at that point, and if so, would be happy to be contracted out to taste test for a living. Seriously, people joke that all we do is go to meetings and talk food, but really...it's a large portion of the job description right now!
I talked to Will Qualkinbush, sports information extraordinare from Clemson, and it made me miss College. Who am I kidding, I always miss college, but he made me miss the people there. On the plus side, he totally helped me pick out my outfit for tomorrow. If he ever reads this he will die, but folks, Will put a lot of thought into tomorrow's ensemble. I'm pretty excited about it.
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