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The best way I can think to describe the feeling of being a single business traveler is this: you’re at a city coffee shop at 5 minutes to 8 on a Monday morning, there’s a long line of caffeine fiends behind you—and your order is wrong. What do you do? Maybe you reorder. Maybe you take it. It’s not a situation in which you can cast a hypothetical prediction of what-you-would-do-if. You think you’re on your time, but everyone else thinks you’re on their time. All you can say of this hypothetical scenario is that if you were the one making your latte at home, you would have gotten it right. But you’re not at home.
I want to disclaimer this entry with the fact that I had just been traveling, working, and doing events and meetings for six straight days. (See previous entry.) I asked for permission to take Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon off in Chicago on condition that I would schedule appointments in that time. No problem. So I had fun.
Ten days on the road: Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Louis, and Chicago. Due to the number of images, I’m dividing this into two entries, giving Chicago its own.
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.
