Humorous speech

Posted on October 4th, 2005 by Sacha Chua

Whoa, went way out of my comfort zone there. Giving in to social
pressure, I volunteered to do a humorous speech for our Toastmasters
club contest. I did a riff on my usual productivity schtick, talking
about the power of procrastination. It wasn’t a rolling-in-the-aisles
success, but it wasn’t completely horrible, either. I got at least one
or two smiles. So I guess it was just _slightly_ horrible.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Still. It was a good experience, in the way that jumping into the
cold, deep end of a pool is a good experience even if you’re just
flailing about while all these Olympic swimmers are watching you.

I guess I’ll be up for the area contest… Yikes.

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