Have to leave on a work trip to Spain today - I know, I suffer - and it just reminds me how much I absolutely hate traveling. It's not the flying itself so much as everything that comes before it. The packing, the cleaning, the paying for a catsitter, the hauling luggage on my epically horrible commute ( Read more... )

I'm all packed now and waiting until 8:30 or 8:45 to head to work for the (half) day, so as to miss the packed trains. Hopefully. In any case, do not want to be on a crowded light rail, PATH and subway with luggage and a laptop bag ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at 3:55 I fly to Chicago. I have not:

- Packed
- Picked up my apartment
- Cat-proofed the bed

Halp.

I'm at home for Christmas now, but will be returning for the Last. Three. Days. at my old job at the beginning of the year, and then I'm being sent to London for my new job on January 8th. I'm staying in Lancaster Gate, which apparently is two tube stops from Oxford Circus, where the office is, but is there anything else near there that's ( Read more... )

This morning I dropped $245 on plane tickets back home. Ideally, I prefer to book for Christmas in October, but since I wasn't sure whether I'd be moving or not, I put it off. Got rejected for the job I interviewed for on Monday, so I won't be moving to central New Jersey and I went ahead and booked. I'll be flying JetBlue out of JFK and into O' ( Read more... )

Home after Christmas, currently typing this with a blissfully happy cat sprawled across my lap. I'm tired. the natural result of getting up at 5:45 am and hauling overstuffed baggage through two of the country's busiest airports ( Read more... )

Not anything where I'm driving, but when I'm flying, I get nervous thinking about all the things I have to take and whether the cat is going to be okay and whether I'm going to have ruined bedding when I get home. I've tried to precipate this this year by 1) getting a waterproof mattress cover and removing all the bedding tomorrow morning and 2) ( Read more... )