Insent, Liese!
'Life of the Party'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I keep postponing my vacation plans, because I keep realizing the things I want to do I don't want to do alone.
Yeah, years ago I was thinking I'd travel Europe with my girlfriend when I was in a serious relationship. But the serious relationship hasn't happened yet and I still haven't been to Europe....
Oh, god, travelling for work. I could never be like meara, I think, because that's just too much, but I did love it.
Proper business travel is the bomb. It's been years. However, business travel with a co-worker is just weird and weird. I did that a couple jobs back, and having to spend all that social time with my boss, including wine with meals, was just weird. How much can I bust out and enjoy downtown Chicago that way? Makes me into a hermit.
Last time I traveled to Houston for work, I said I was too tired to go out drinking with my boss and our clients. They ended up getting drunk and having wacky drunk-driving adventures.
So glad I missed that.
How much can I bust out and enjoy downtown Chicago that way?
Another editor and I went to Kingston Mines and got soused and listened to music till 3 a.m. that trip. But publishing is sort of loose, at least the publisher I worked for. My boss was one of my best friends, and the big boss wasn't around except for the one big company dinner we threw for authors. (Where everyone got drunk anyway.)
But the serious relationship hasn't happened yet and I still haven't been to Europe....
You should just go. Even when you get a serious girlfriend, she may not be a good travel companion. I know many people who I enjoy spending time with and love dearly, but with whom I would not travel.
I'm still recovering from my MI job. Way too many lines blurred there. But we went on vacation together there, twice. All of us. I could never do that now. Lounging in the pool and drinking with my co-workers? Not in ten million years.
My boss has made more noises about hiring me permanently. Please make this work out, work deities.
WTF headline of the century: Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo
Heh. The "Skywalkers" are tightrope walkers. "Han" is the Han river.
You should just go.
Yeah, I'm coming around to that point of view....
Yeah, that's rough. When I was at the law school, I would sometimes work with a recruiting partner. Luckily, she lived in Maryland and I lived in Virginia, so we flew out of different airports, so I didn't have to deal with the traveling together issue. However, sometimes when we got to our destination, she would suggest dinner, and I would say "oh, sorry, i'm meeting some friends (usually Buffistas). See you in the morning!" I think that she was bothered by it, but I would eat breakfast and lunch with her, so I thought it was a decent trade off.