So here I am, sitting on a king-sized bed at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago. It's rated as a 4-star "Elegant" hotel, but honestly, it's closer to "shabby chic". This place has clearly seen better days (apparently, in the '40s, it used to be some kind of meeting place for the mob...); I have a feeling that some of the fixtures are meant to recreate some kind of regal opulence, but ermmm... they don't. And they put me on the second floor next to the elevator. Not happy :(
So I'm here for the annual giant education conference, and I have to say, I'm honestly not looking forward to it much (and be warned, I'm going to start whining here...)- it's been a gloomy, snowy day, none of the sessions I went to today were particularly informative, I had bad coffee (what could be worse?), and although it's only been 10 hours, I'm already missing home... The only saving grace was a more than pleasant train ride from Ann Arbor. I definitely recommend taking the train- it's a scenic route, you save yourself the grief of thinking about parking when you get here and you have all that free time on the train to relax.
Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow if the sun comes out. If not, you know you'll hear about it...
3 comments:
Sorry about your sad day, Serene. Hopefully good coffee found you. What's worse? Food wise: cold eggs? warm OJ? forgetting to close the fridge door completely?
(OK...it's actually refreshing to hear you so unhappy. For such a long time, I didn't think you were capable of experiencing negative feelings. (Well, besides missing Jude and your family.)
I wish I could bottle up your normal positiveness and apply it as lip balm. It could be called "Happy Balm" or "Smile Stick".)
That's so sweet of you Allison! :)
And in the larger schema of food disasters, I'd have to go with bad seafood. Not only does that taste bad, it wrecks havoc with your digestive system. I can get over bad coffee fairly easily; bad shellfish on the other hand, that's kinda brutal...
That's a good point. I was thinking this morning that no coffee - when you really, really need some - is much worse than bad coffee. Unless you really, really need coffee and get bad coffee. Hmm....
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