Separately- I am back from Nashville and reunited with Petunia!
It was not a disaster until it was…
Wednesday was travel with two of us who don’t travel paired with a traveler. We got there, to our hotels, met up on Broadway and then I had to peace out because it was loud, I was hot and hungry and cranky, so I had to go back to the hotel to shower and then go to the public library, which was right behind my hotel. We also had a nice dinner, but at 8:15! So late for me! The public library was awesome. I did not know that Nashville, like Rochester had a large women’s suffrage movement. They had a great exhibit at the library
Thursday was great! The conference was very theatrical, the stuff announced and sessions were great. We were originally overwhelmed by the party and 3,400, but ended up closing the place down and dancing until 10 pm :). They planned it well where the dance party basically started at 5 pm so we could conference at 8 am fairly refreshed. Also, we just waited out in the hall until it was down to a manageable amount of people. There were drone operated sharks around the ceiling, but I couldn’t get to the tech people, which is what I wanted to do.
Friday started out great- I learned a lot - but then three of us had our flights home cancelled and it was a crazy stressful scramble between 11 and 1 that got us all home by midnight. It involved two travel agents, people panic paying for their own flights home, me crying in front of work people etc.
Then the Uber from the airport in Rochester which is normally $20 was $97!!!! So I waited until it went down to $50 and then got home. Petunia apparently did not miss me. :(. I expected to be greeted at the door!
I also had to be patted down every time I went throughsecurity because I have a metal tag in my breast from a negative biopsy which pings. Also, apparently bike shorts under a dress also pings????
Congrats on the successful travel venture, Sophia. I have been patted down the last couple times I flew too for unknown reasons.
I also had to be patted down every time I went throughsecurity because I have a metal tag in my breast from a negative biopsy which pings. Also, apparently bike shorts under a dress also pings????
So weird — I also have a marker from my breast, but it never sets off security.
Sophia, I'm sorry I missed you in Nashville! We might have passed each other in the airport -- we flew out on Wednesday when you flew in. (I'm in Portugal now!)
I had to go back to the hotel to shower and then go to the public library, which was right behind my hotel.
I'm glad you got to see the main library! That building is really lovely, and our whole public library system is excellent.
I did not know that Nashville, like Rochester had a large women’s suffrage movement.
Not only that, but Tennessee cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, and it all came down to one state representative, Harry T. Burn, who wrote to his mother to ask for advice on what to do, and she told him to be a good boy and vote for women's suffrage. I love that part!
That’s awesome, Kate P!
::waves:: I am thinking supportive responses in various directions but I do not have the energy to type them out. What you would like to hear, let’s pretend I said that.
I have put in about 3 hours of work in the front yard today, which my Fitbit records a significant energy expenditure so I have been trying to remember the relationship between work and energy. E=W/t? That sounds familiar. Anyway, taking a break now and may not come back to it until tomorrow, although I have PLENTY still todo and hours of sunlight I could do it in.
My neighborhood, in spite of being one of the most important abolitionist centers in the country, was also later the home of the Women’s Anti-Suffrage Movement in New York.
I’m feeling mostly OK now, although I’m still exhausted most of the time. Gorgeous weather tomorrow, I’m going to try to go out and take photos.
Glad you are better, Tom, I was wondering how you were doing. Hope the exhaustion doesn’t stick around too much longer.
I passed on a balloon fair in Memphis today because I am NOT going to spend $40+ to do anything outside in 95° weather, even if it involves pretty colors. I did, however, find out that Mom has been up in one, which I never would have guessed.
Got farmer's market haul and shopping for my best friend's birthday done, and that's about all the productivity I had in me.
