I'm back, did you miss me?
May. 5th, 2006 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumLooking foward to wading through my flist and seeing what you lot were up to while I was in the "Windy City"*
The trip was really good. I think I did pretty well at the conference selling the company we were representing, and learned quite a bit. The conference itself was huge, thousands of teachers from all over the place - met people from Alaska. even.
My boss, Ben is amazing, he really is. He is just so dynamic and is really, really good at what he does. The other guy who was there, Dennis, has had a really interesting life, too - he knows all sorts of writers, and has done so much in his career. Very ambitious people I work with. Hope it rubs off.
Chicago was cool, what bits I got to see besides the hotel and conference center. We went to Navy Pier, and that was nice, and I have a friend called Emilie who lives there, so I got to see her for the first time in yonks. That was great. We used to email all the time, but lately our correspondence has fallen by the wayside, so it was nice we could pick up right where we let off, and hopefully we will get into the habit of communicating more frequently.
She's a great tour guide too. We were in the Hancock building - 96 floors with a lounge on the top where you can drink expensive drinks and look out over the whole city. The women's bathroom, for some reason, has the best view, and while we were in there Emilie became tour guide for the other women in there mostly, she said, because they kept pointing to the wrong building and saying, "Ya'all? That's the Sears building!" and suchlike.
So now I have a bizzilion emails for work to wade through, and many things to catch up on. I truly need a laptop, I think, especially if I'm going to be doing more of this (which I hope I will)
Charlie had a good time at his grandmother's. Leaving him was hard, especially because he cried and clung to me and the Husband had to literally pry him off of my sweater and force him into the car, but he adjusted. He went to the Cape May Zoo and saw a special IMAX on the ocean, and had a nice time.
I bought him way too many books at the conference. Because it was the International Reading Convention, there were all kinds of book publishers there, both educational and recreational. It was a dangerous place for me to be. Many of the publishers had authors there doing signings, and it was very hard for me to pass up.
That, however, I will save for another post, because I'm sure you're sick of reading all this by now.
Off to start my day!
*Which, by the way, it wasn't
The trip was really good. I think I did pretty well at the conference selling the company we were representing, and learned quite a bit. The conference itself was huge, thousands of teachers from all over the place - met people from Alaska. even.
My boss, Ben is amazing, he really is. He is just so dynamic and is really, really good at what he does. The other guy who was there, Dennis, has had a really interesting life, too - he knows all sorts of writers, and has done so much in his career. Very ambitious people I work with. Hope it rubs off.
Chicago was cool, what bits I got to see besides the hotel and conference center. We went to Navy Pier, and that was nice, and I have a friend called Emilie who lives there, so I got to see her for the first time in yonks. That was great. We used to email all the time, but lately our correspondence has fallen by the wayside, so it was nice we could pick up right where we let off, and hopefully we will get into the habit of communicating more frequently.
She's a great tour guide too. We were in the Hancock building - 96 floors with a lounge on the top where you can drink expensive drinks and look out over the whole city. The women's bathroom, for some reason, has the best view, and while we were in there Emilie became tour guide for the other women in there mostly, she said, because they kept pointing to the wrong building and saying, "Ya'all? That's the Sears building!" and suchlike.
So now I have a bizzilion emails for work to wade through, and many things to catch up on. I truly need a laptop, I think, especially if I'm going to be doing more of this (which I hope I will)
Charlie had a good time at his grandmother's. Leaving him was hard, especially because he cried and clung to me and the Husband had to literally pry him off of my sweater and force him into the car, but he adjusted. He went to the Cape May Zoo and saw a special IMAX on the ocean, and had a nice time.
I bought him way too many books at the conference. Because it was the International Reading Convention, there were all kinds of book publishers there, both educational and recreational. It was a dangerous place for me to be. Many of the publishers had authors there doing signings, and it was very hard for me to pass up.
That, however, I will save for another post, because I'm sure you're sick of reading all this by now.
Off to start my day!
*Which, by the way, it wasn't
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on 2006-05-05 11:54 am (UTC)I have clothes for your friend. Not a ton, but some!
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on 2006-05-05 11:55 am (UTC)That sounds like so much fun. The kind of fun involving credit cards, and lots of shopping bags. :)
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on 2006-05-05 12:03 pm (UTC)The book publishers part sounds like a dream come true.
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on 2006-05-05 12:10 pm (UTC)An International Reading Convention would have been dangerous for me, too. :)
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on 2006-05-05 12:43 pm (UTC)I'm amused that while you were *in* the windy city, I announced that I'm *moving to* the windy city.*
Which it is more often than not, you can pretty nearly get blown over in the street, goodness!
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on 2006-05-05 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-05-05 03:12 pm (UTC)Glad you're back and had a good trip! But I bet Charlie was beyond thrilled to get you back!