Wednesday, August 15, 2012

travel day from hell.

This whole process of interviewing and looking for a new job have really helped show me how much I love being an event planner, but let me just say that today has been a nightmare trying to travel. Given how frequently I travel for work (and pleasure), I have been insanely lucky. I've never missed a flight (even when I've waited until the last damn minute to leave for the airport) and I've never had a flight cancelled. Despite all that, some travel days just suck majorly and today is one of them. It took 90 minutes to get from the Gansevoort Hotel to JFK and of course I hadn't given myself that much time. I had to book it to get my damn bag checked and ran like hell to get through security, only to get through and find out we'd been delayed. Womp womp. I haven't eaten (since I was too busy rushing and the Virgin Terminal in JFK sucks for food), so I'm ravenous and really just want to kill everyone. We have like another 2 and a half hours on this damn flight and with the 2 hour delay - 1 hour of which was spent on the tarmac - we're looking at getting in around 10pm. Sigh. Let's hope nothing goes horrifically wrong with my Vegas trip in 10 days. Gotta love the jetset life I lead!

I cannot wait to be back in SF - I've missed everyone and everything so much. Things I'm looking forward to:

  • Not sweating my goddamned ass off! I went from 115 degrees in AZ to 90s in NYC and humid as hell. I couldn't even blink my eyes without sweat pouring down my back. I forgot how absolutely disgusting you feel ALL SUMMER when you're in Manhattan. If California has made me soft, you know what - I don't give a goddamn! It's temperate and my weak ass loves it!
  • Catching up on DVR. OMG, Pretty Little Liars withdrawal and I need to see Honey Boo Boo based on all the blog recaps. 
  • Seeing my therapist. It's been like 6 weeks, you guys! I need to hash out my life with someone who has a degree and a license - so many updates for her!
  • I'm going to a mixer tomorrow in an attempt to meet men in a non-online fashion. God help me. I'm so awkward at any random social event, even if it's just girls, so who knows how this will go. Hopefully there are at least some interesting people there. 
  • Seeing my friends and my city - I feel like I haven't hung out with anyone in SO long. I want to be social for the next 10 days and see everyone.
Okay, back to work for me - I have a lot of random shit to get done before we land!
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2 comments:

ZRD said...

You and I need to chat to A) exchange horror stories of travel, and B) for me to express my amazement you've flown for business as much as you do without apps that push notify tell you things like when your flights are delayed.

(I 100% would hate flying even more without:

TripIt to track all flights integrated with

FlightTrack telling me status of each flight in realtime

GateGuru giving me the food and layout and shops of every terminal everywhere

FlightBoard showing the flightboard of any airport at any time

Also, check out me on Facebook for a horror story to end all horror stories of flying -- you've been lucky! Enjoy your next trips!

August 16, 2012 at 12:22 AM
Cleopatra Jones said...

@ZRD - i know i should use more apps, but i'm suffering from app overload. i use TripIt, well, I have it, I never update it. I might get on that FlightTrack bandwagon, though and Gate Guru - they sound right up my alley.

i actually usually don't mind flight delays, what kills me is the traffic on the way to the airport. i KNEW i should've just taken the subway and the JFK airporter, but i was being lazy and didn't want to haul my bag around. that was dumb!

August 16, 2012 at 10:36 AM

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