You are a very driven, high achieving, energetic and strong woman. A type A++. I'm a type Z. I once worked for a US company at a senior level in London. OMG. I could not keep up with those women. Such an insane work ethic. All while looking immaculate. They thought we were all quiet, weird, awkward, slow and a little backward. Every time I tried taking them somewhere historic or interesting, it was all so quaint to them. I had a brief obsession with one of them, who was like (to me) an Amazonian goddess. She called us all in for an emergency all staff meeting on a Friday afternoon (can you guess?!) and in came the VP and her team with headsets to announce that they were shutting down all UK operations and as of 5pm, we were all out of a job. And then security came in to take our stuff and escort us out.

I don't know what the point of that story is (!) other than to say you have very high expectations of eachother in America. But some of us are just lazy slobs that like wrapping ourselves in a soft blankie on the sofa with the cat and some Haagen Daas and binging on the Blue Planet.