At a conference with attendees from 12 countries and many disciplines, I'm bound to hear and see some interesting things:
1. The verb resile, which is what resilient people do. I don't recall ever hearing this word before but dictionary.com tells me it means either rebound or recoil, words that carry very different connotations.
2. Making sense as a phrase not universally positive in connotation: apparently, one can make either constructive or destructive sense of suffering.
3. People smoking over supper in pubs (yuck!).
4. Smoked trout on the breakfast buffet (yum!).
5. Engineers at the other end of the table tossing around terms like synergy and next-gen and The Cloud (which seems to be capitalized even when uttered orally).
6. Clouds so thick and heavy that the city is shrouded in darkness by midafternoon.
Tomorrow's forecast calls for sunshine, which is good because I'll be setting out on an excursion in the afternoon. Despite the weather, I intend to resile--in the best sense of the word.
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