Yesterday, a guest speaker in one of my classes made me want to run down the hill and jump into the Connecticut River.

We had 2 speakers in class, and the first was dynamic, entertaining and provided a fresh perspective on life.  He was great.

The second speaker, in stark contrast, gave a soul-crushing presentation filled with corporate buzzwords.  He read off his slides and had a very strange habit of raising his eyebrows constantly.  He had no passion for his product and seemed to delight in explaining various exploitative legal tricks designed to extend the patent protection on his mediocre products.

I found myself sitting in class trying desperately to remember that it is possible to be a real human being in corporate America.  It depressed the hell out of me.  After class, I got in my car and blasted Nirvana, singing at the top of my lungs the entire way home in a vain attempt to remind myself that I am human.

Please never let me sound like that.