The Vegas Diaries – Thursday Feb 17th 2011

Couldn’t sleep last night. Was awake till 1am wondering where the hell the housekeeper put my dental floss. Then I started thinking about the other things she’s moved. Books (she doesn’t like them beside the bed – they now live over by the window)... my makeup (they’re now back in the middle – I think I’ve won that one).

Today in the lift I was asked if I was with the Magic People. Externally I did my I’m-taking-this-seriously face where my head tilts to one side, my eyebrows go into a concentrating position and I tend to slightly nod to complete the look. Internally I was choosing between one of three responses:

 “why, can you see them standing beside me?”

“Yes, “I am Zoe Potter of Dumbledore”

 “Yes, my show is in town. They saw me in half in act two, scene 5”

Went down to the conference which was a day just for the Australian, South African and UK markets. The British did not look rested and recharged and consumed quite a bit of coffee, The SAs didn’t look too bad. I almost had a “guess who don’t sue” sight before my eyes. I was right about that a limo taking the head honchos somewhere. One senior person, at  breakfast told their colleagues which bar he went to and how long for to which his colleagues replied “you know we were there with you?”. Another senior person left one of LV’s hottest clubs at 3am – came back to the hotel decided it was still early and hit the blackjack – went back to his hotel room at 4:15 and again decided it was still early so starting working through all his emails. Impressively, the recipients of the emails said his 4:30am emails were quite eloquent. It then continued up from there. It was an odd equation – the more senior the person the more they’d partied and the later they’d gone to bed.... actually applying that theory maybe the CEO is still out now?

After the conference I decided to join my  lovely colleague from Hong Kong and go up to Fashion Show Mall. She needed to get changed beforehand as did I – she’d already checked out so we headed to my room.

On the way there I talked her through the conspiracy of the dental floss hiding housekeeper. When we walked into my room a  liar was made of me and there my dental floss back on the bedside table! Sue had a theory that it had fallen off and housekeeping simply found it on the floor and put it back. I didn’t really have anything sensible to reply to that.

Went to Fashion Show, gym, buffet and early night.

And that’s Day 10.

Z xo