Random thoughts: DC edition.
This week's tradeshow fun comes from unseasonably warm Washington, DC. Short trip, I'll be home on Friday night in time to tuck Mecca in for a good night sleep. Onto random thoughts and then to check a stuffed inbox.
1. I had the Super Shuttle ride from hell coming in from Dulles to the Omni near Georgetown. The trip included getting stuck in drive time traffic on the way in from Virginny, watching a woman fall out the van and into the arms of the waiting bellhop nearly busting her chin on the door, watching the van hit a fence after pulling into a crowded hotel parking lot and someone's incredible body oder. Total drive time from Dulles to my stop? An hour and fifteen minutes. Fuckadoodledoo.
2. Bush Inter"Galactic" Airport in Houston is a lot like our President. Unclear, poorly mapped and completely ass backwards. If you are ever unfortunate enough to have to travel from Terminal D to Terminal A (gates 16-30), be sure you have at least a ninety minute layover, and be prepared to go through security checkpoint. Again. Or, simply miss your flight.
3. Dear Austin. I love you. Desperately and for reasons I can't seem to explain or readily identify. But you need to up your list of direct flights. Come on. We're big time now. Let's act like it.
4. Only in a hotel would someone be stupid enough to pay $25 for a BLT. *angrily chomps bacon*
5. Ever notice how crabby I get when I travel? You'd think I hate it. I promise I don't. I just love to bitch. I am really hoping this doesn't make me annoying. (Like I can do anything about that now)
6. Really wishing I could see my Liz Love. *insert virtual hug here* I'm thinking of you girl.
7. Taking a tally...who puts sugar in their grits? Better yet...how do you take your grits? I tend to think sugar in grits is appalling. I had a debate with one my reps about this last week in San Antonio while I watched him dress his grits like it was a bowl of cream of wheat. After suppressing the urge to gag, I admitted that I am a salt, pepper, cheese and bacon grit dresser. Not the healthiest...but I don't eat them that often. So don't start.
8. Why is ESPN running a string of old Evander Holyfield fights?
9. So...who's ready for Nanowrimo? I think I've finally figured out my niche. A little bit sci-fi, a little bit new age and a lot of weird. Perhaps if I include a drug war, a pimp and a woman sprawled across crumpled bed sheets simpering about love and designer purses, I might be grouped into that black fiction genre I'm so passionate about. (Awwww...did I just say that? *removes snark hat*)
10. Sometimes, if just for the skyline, the exhilaration of a city teeming with life and orange/red/yellow kissed autumn foliage...I miss my native coast.
You know...I've been in an interesting place lately. I'll admit it. A little hardened by life's little onslaught of lessons. But don't worry, sooner or later I should be able to come up with something warm and fuzzy from the deeper parts of me. For now? I'm just slaptacular.
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4. No. Only stupid people *not* on an expense account.
7. A dab of butter and a sprinkle of salt 'n' pepper. Or a smidge of butter with blueberry jam. Sugar belongs in brownies, not grits.
9. Nuthin' personal but why does everyone here keep talkin' about this?!
9. NanoWriMo! Pure fun and ecstasy and joy and bliss and crazy-making. I 'won' in 2004, just couldn't pull it together in 05, didn't even bother to try in 06. But I'm ready for this year to once again spew 50,000+ words that will never be read by anyone but me n' the bots.
Actually, I probably won't read it either.
8. ESPn - it's all about looking to the past to see the future.
7. If I've eaten grits, I do not recall. I've thought about remedying that some day but I'll have to make them myself. No one to blame but me if I don't like them.
6. Sweetness
5. Travel is great. It's just all those other people in the way that make it suck.
4. I hope the L and T were good, too.
3. Yeah. What's up with that?!? Why should DFW have all the fun of overpriced flights??? Share the wealth, baby!
2. The airport didn't fall far from the tree, did it? I rode along to pick someone up there once. Firmly on my list of 'things I hope to never experience again.'
1. Ya just can't pay for that kind of entertainment. Oh wait. You did, didn't you? Scratch that.
There's this really good sports bar in GT, a few doors down from Dean & Deluca...can't recall the name but remember what were possibly the best crab cakes ever and some really good local beers.
Slaptacular.One of the many moods I love about you! hee!
it's late, time for bed. Have a good one, dollface! :)
7. I'm a sugar person. I think its a Southern thing. We all have our sweet tooths.
Mmmmm... bacon
grits: salt and pepper
NaNoWriMo: bah
1. i am pretty sure Dulles was imported from one of the lower levels of hell. right along with LAX and O'Hare. i hate that place. BWI is much easier to deal with, because it's much smaller, but still internat'l enough to have decent flights.
4. Only in a hotel in DC down the street from Embassy Row would anyone be stupid enough to pay $25 for a BLT. i hope it was decent, though!
6. I wishes I could see you too, dear. THANKSGIVING. we WILL make it happen, yeah? *hugs back*
7. grits? um... ew.
10. i know what you mean. i miss it when i'm away too. but at least i still live here! :~)
I use salt, hot sauce, and maybe a little bit of my over-easy eggs. Yeah. I do not like the sweet grits. No siree...