Four Days In Limbo

I've just spent four days in limbo. One of those places which is part of this world, but not of this world. I've been part of a panel evaluating supplier presentations for some software we are acquiring. The evaluations took place in a disused school. Over the four days we were located in three different rooms which looked the same but turned out to be unsettlingly different, one day a smaller screen, one day bigger desks, one day a smaller room and so on.

One thing that remained exactly the same was the lunchtime food (calling it "lunch" would be stretching things too far). The same number of sandwiches of the same varieties on the same plates, placed in exactly in the same order on the table.

The format of each day was naturally identical which meant that half way through asking a question one had the awful feeling that it had already been asked. This was made worse on the final day as the software being presented (albeit by a different implementer) was the same as on the previous day.

Unbelievably tiring. Now we need to get it down to a final two and then site visits.