I was in my hotel room talking with some non-actuary co-workers. We were at a CAS continuing education event so I don’t know what the others were doing there. It was time for an executive lunch preceeding the very last session, I had been busy with company activities and hadn’t attended any other sessions. Luckily I was dressed appropriately and before I left my hotel room I checked to make sure nobody was hiding in my room. Once I satisfied myself of that, I went downstairs.
To get to the lunch, you went along a walkway that separated the various speakers from the audience, the speakers were on the left and had a fair bit of room, and then maybe five levels of bleachers on the right that were about half-filled with actuaries. I was a bit overdressed in a suit, many other people were wearing matching sweatshirts. One of the sessions was going to talk about changes to the CAS syllabus and eventually I made my way to the lunch.
The lunch was nearing the end but I stopped at a station so I could make myself a roast beef and pasta sauce sandwich. I was trying to assemble the sandwich, but during the process some hotel worker insisted on heping me and only slowed me down. Once that was finished he asked me if I wanted some prunes although he used another name for then, U declined. Then I grabbed a bag of chips and someone handed me an unopened wine.
Then it was time to sit down, someone told me I shouldn’t sit next to anyone named Gene, because people named Gene are not nice (in real life there is a Gene at my bridge center that I play against regularly including yesterday and he is very nice) . Eventually I sat down and enjoyed my executive lunch.
I think I’m having this dream because I’m not going to any continuing education this year and plan on letting my credentials expire.