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Chicago
I arrived in Chicago on a Monday morning. It wasn’t particularly painful to leave Charlottesville this time. I had time to clean my apartment over the weekend, so I did not have the sinking feeling of knowing I would be greeted with a chore on my return. But it had been a tumultuous week leading up to the trip, and I needed the kind of distraction travel uniquely forces on someone. Between New Orleans and this trip, I’d snuck away to Los Angeles to spend the weekend with someone–for a second time in two months, actually. (Neither trip is documented here.) At the end of the trip, I initiated some kind of discussion of whether or not we were dating, and he said it wasn’t something he would consider, and despite all we’d gone out to see and do that weekend–from horse racing to gallery openings at the Brewery, the world’s largest colony of artists–it cheapened the experience for me a bit. I’d seen it coming. So going into this trip, I had a fresh start for, essentially, everything. Everything except, of course, my job.
I took two days in New York City before my next business trip to Dallas, Austin, and Houston. Go to Bread on Spring Street, order their pesto. Do not try to find love in Williamsburg on a Tuesday night, though.
Austin. I love Austin. I love that my job sends me to Austin. Austin!
It became apparent early in my tenure at U.Va. that I should plan a trip to Texas. My job was originally conceived as being one in which I would be based in my region and travel from there, reporting back to the Office of Engagement at U.Va. I was eager (!) to get out of independent film / festival development and unable to find more work in reality television casting in Austin. A Real Job where I could stay in Texas and travel extensively would also be a Dream Job. When I was extended an offer, however, I was to be relocated to Charlottesville, Va. Given that I’d just moved halfway across the country to be somewhere other than Charlottesville and had found the friends and social/cultural experience I wanted, I was dismayed (!). But I was also really excited. And let’s be honest– Texas was in my region, and Austin was centrally located between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. I would be back. And I would have the best job, ever.
