My friend and former coworker started a travel blog with her friend: Trek Simple. Though we’re in the middle of a pandemic and can’t actually travel, they suggested travelling from home. Their first suggestion, Picnic in Paris, was so much fun that I decided I might try one virtual trip a month. Here’s what I…
It’s been a few years, hasn’t it? But I’m back!
I went to the National Book Festival yesterday in Washington, D.C. It was being held at the convention center for the first time, which made it feel more like a conference and less like a festival, but I preferred it to the miserable sun and rain from previous years. After the festival, I decided to…
In the middle of the night, we flew from Seattle to San Francisco. I nodded off briefly, but had a weird seat and couldn’t get comfy. Dawn as seen from the plane was beautiful. We got in and found out that we had to race to the next gate because we’d been put on another…
I got up super super early (6am) in order to walk down to Pike Place Market with Atossa and Panneer so they could see it before we had to fly out of Seattle later that morning. We got there when the market opened. Unfortunately, most of the vendors don’t set up that early on a…
Ah, Saturday. Started out the day at a hectic pace with a brand new way to count bookfair attendees–giving each one of them a numbered label before they could go into the bookfair. We did a little packing up (only had a few stations up anyway) and gave out labels at a fast pace all…
There’s even less I remember about today. Things that happened: The hotel’s daily schedule. AWP totally takes over. I remembered that I wanted to buy the writer tarot deck Two Sylvias Press was selling. So as soon as the bookfair opened and I was free for a second at onsite registration, I went straight over…
I have only a vague recollection of what happened this day. I will do my best to reconstruct it… Up super early to get to onsite registration and set up for the day. Took the shortcut there with pride. Started up the computers. Fixed whichever ones needed to be fixed. Got the Tweet Wall up…
I’d been reading some of Yann Martel’s short stories and finished reading in bed the night before (a beautiful way to spend my vacation, reading in bed, BTW) in time to give the book away today. However, they gave me a very strange dream that I think I’d like to one day try to make…
This day, I woke up early and took to the streets of Boston with a snarf map and a 13-page spreadsheet detailing every snarf on the map, color-coded to show if I’d already snarfed it on a previous trip to Boston or not. I didn’t want to waste time going out of my way to…
Last night I ended up going to a staff party… which was a mistake. My team lost the scavenger hunt (I demand a recount!) but, mostly, it was because it was the most exhausting week of my life and waiting around until after midnight and watching people drink instead of going to sleep is not…
Um, okay. Somehow I completely miscounted and missed Boston Day 6! Oops! So I’m fixing the dates/times of this post so it appears in order. Silly me! I woke up early and got a couple more entries for the staff scavenger hunt out of the way, as my team kind of fell apart in doing…
I’m terribly behind on both my big AWP trips (I only made it to day 6 in Boston and not even that far for Seattle). And there are many smaller trips I want to blog about as well. However, because it’s been so long, the details are pretty hazy by now. I shall do my…
Setup started 2 hours earlier than was called for and we almost didn’t finish setup in order to start on time at noon. We found a few small bugs in the system that our consultant at ShiftEight fixed right away for us minutes before we opened. My station at the help desk remained my station…
Ah, Tuesday. Tuesday is setup day for staff. I thought about waking up early to get a few more snarfs in before work started, but the alternative was sleep and sleep won out overwhelmingly. So, instead, I spent the morning sleeping, eating, and writing postcards: We all met in the hotel lobby later in the…
Woke up at “too damn early o’clock” in order to get ready for the Super Shuttle to pick me up at 5am. It came a little early, just as I was about to run the trash out. And so began an extremely long day of goods & bads. Bad: Shuttle caught me off guard by…
I went to NYC for work again this year during the last week of May. We took the train up. I got a bit of work and some reading done on the way, though the ride seemed longer than I’d remembered. They were doing construction on Penn Station, so we had a hard time figuring…
In April, I ventured into Washington, D.C. on both Saturday the 27 and Sunday the 28. I visited four different “museums” on my own and with friends. Here are my adventures! Saturday I took the Huntington Metro into DC. It’s not my normal line, but they were doing track work on the blue line, so…
I’ve passed Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., before, but had never visited. I put it on my current list of 101 Things in 1001 Days in hopes of finally making it there. On the morning of July 4, 6of8 and I “covered” the cemetery. We got there early and pretty much had the cemetery…
Another early start, I woke up and wished I could stay in bed all day. I really didn’t want to see that onsite registration desk again. But I returned, as did all the staff. We were all a bit shell-shocked and had a hard time adjusting to the small amount of people who showed up…
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