Why am I blogging from Ohio...
Well, I had three days off from work this week and, just on a whim, I checked the airline's schedule and found I could come home and visit Mom & Dad for a mere $221 and get a bunch more Frequent Flier Miles - which I need! I'm perilously close to attaining Silver Elite Status! (God forbid that the code share I took to London earlier this year should have worked on my behalf in Frequent Flier Land).
So here I am in Ohio! It's all rather dull, but then again, that's kind of nice. It's always good to be out of the city, even though there's so much stuff I have to do -- I still haven't even had time to do laundry and totally recover from my trip to Asia -- but how often do I get a three day weekend that coincides with a good fare and Mom being amenable, schedule wise, to a visit?
We even came down from Toledo to Columbus to see my sister and her boyfriend. My sister works in a jewelry store, so we went there today as I had never seen it before. They do a lot of goldsmithing, and I found a gorgeous pair of matching pieces of lapis lazuli which are going to be made into cufflinks for yours truly, so we're rather excited about that. Then we saw her new condo and visited her cats, to whom I am majorly allergic, so we left and did some shopping. I found some really comfy shoes at Cole-Haan which sadly were not on sale but spent the remainder of the evening on my feet nonetheless.
Then we had dinner with her boyfriend, then went to see "Finding Nemo." Guess what? We found him!
And I got to drive Mom's BMW! Which I get to drive back to Toledo tomorrow... although work would have preferred it differently. They called me this afternoon to see if there as any way they could get me to work tomorrow. "Sorry, I'm in Ohio!"
But I actually used my sister's frighteningly slow dial-up connection (Most people out here don't seem to have high speed in regular residences -- only in hotel, universities, that sort of thing), so I spend forever on various airline websites finding out that it was stupid expensive to get on a flight tomorrow back to NYC. The really dumb thing about it is, there are plenty of empty seats, so what's the big fucking deal? That's the thing I don't get about airlines. At the Broadway shows, they'll sell 'em for half-price rather than let 'em go empty. I mean, I could understand if the seats were full, but if I'm not puttin' anyone out, then, well, what's the big fucking deal, yo?
But it was about $600 to change to fly tomorrow, so I'm staying as planned, and it's cheaper for the hotel to pay anyone who's actually there to do some overtime.
What's strange is that the hotel is as busy as it is! (That, combined with the trip to Ohio, is what was keeping me from blogging the past couple days, not to mention the extra spare time spent perusing Tour de France coverage.) On Tuesday night (the last night I worked), we were slammed. I was busy my entire shift. I was supposed to leave at 12am, but due to a variety of reasons, didn't get out until about 1, which rather pissed me off. I stopped at Sushi Seki on the way home and got a fabulous spicy scallop roll, then watched a bit of TV while getting ready for the flight on Wednesday.
And that, while not in chronological order, is what I've been up to.
I knew you'd want to know.
Posted by Jon at July 18, 2003 12:30 AM | TrackBackheh, was wondering where you were. Ohio eh? I spent my freshman year in cleveland. that was more than enough Ohio for me to last a lifetime. hehe
Posted by: Nina at July 18, 2003 08:59 AM