My kids were teens or pre-teens when I had the occasional work travel. Goodness, a bathroom to myself for as long as I wanted to soak, and nobody to argue with over the tv remote? Light on to read until I was sleepy? Send me away more, work, please!

I've shared a hotel room with an opposite-sex coworker (well, fellow graduate student) on a layover in Zurich on the way back from a project. But archaeological field work does tend to lead to levels of intimacy above and beyond the usual work-related togetherness (and this particular coworker was a good friend, and the person planning our travel asked if it would be okay before booking it.)

My father, naturally, travelled for work all the time. He was incredibly ho-hum about it. I never, even when I travelled nowhere near as interesting, found it blasé. It was nice not to be paying for my own shit, but I could park conveniently, and I wasn't packing for a long trip, so that was simple...

My sister now travels for work manically. She's on an alert list for faraway conferences so she can go cool places. Next destination? Thailand. Plane ticket subsidised, she just extends the stay. Pfft.

Mu Sis-in-Law and I were talking about business travel this weekend. We discovered we both have the same default Out-of-Town TV shows for business trips: Cold Case and L&O SVU. Both of them are pretty much always on, we didn't see them when new, and we both find them entertaining. Someone asked what it meant that we both found violent crime entertaining, and the only answer we could come up with was that we are both probably secretly evil.

I'd love to have a job with some travel. If I was smart I would apply to some of those international NGOs. I have friends and friends of friends working in London, Geneva and Paris.

I also need to get to Europe. I've always put it off due to money/time, but now that I have both, most of my friends have been there or are paired off and travel with their SO. I need a travel buddy.

Boss lady just came over and said we should go home and come back when people can be reasonable. And that would be?

Boss lady just came over and said we should go home and come back when people can be reasonable. And that would be?

After three weeks in India?

Well, if we're not to come back until people are reasonable, I think my department's out for quite some time. We keep saying, "it doesn't work like that," and they keep saying, "Ok, then in phase 2 we want you to make it work like that."

We're having to come up with creative ways to make them understand "No."

Why do I always do this?? I went over to ask a coworker for database help, leaving this window open just under the database. So when I accidentally closed the db (like I do every time....), you people were right on my screen with my coworker looking at it! ISTG.

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