The Wandering Monkey

Today I am going to work at a new job, potentially. It's a part time
sales position for a company with which I have been loosely associated
for some time. It's an expat-oriented web portal for the city of
Shanghai, and they have several corresponding businesses. They also do
event planning, custom logo printing (on shirts and such), and of course
sell advertising space on their website.
I feel a little apprehensive but I'm going to get my head together. I'm
going to have a nice lunch, and a nice coffee, and go into work.
Incidentally, swing dancing is actually taking off rather well right
now. We have a crisis of confidence from our Sunday venue, which could
potentially derail our efforts, however. We're finally getting 40-60
people per night, but based on the historical bad performance the venue
management has decided to cancel swing and go to a salsa night, which
most everyone believes will be a failure. They already have salsa at
that venue Wed, Thur, Fri, and Sat. No one's going to want to go again
on another day. Plus, there is a competitor holding a very successful
salsa event just one block away on that very night!
I am hoping we keep the venue, and I am appealing to the management to
be reasonable. We have one more night scheduled there, which is next
Sunday, after which we don't have another option to go yet. Even if we
found another place, we'd lose 50% of our people almost immediately
since there is a lot of 'word of mouth' publicity about our swing night.
So, I'm ready to go now. Wish me luck.
_j