I know it sounds like I am a pretty important person since I will be attending another conference this weekend, but let me tell you...I AM NOT important. I am crazy. I have way too much on my plate and I am stuffed.
I am excited for the conference this weekend because I will get to spend the weekend in Orlando, I will eat some good food and listen to some important people talk. This conference does not involve me being very important at all :)
Bring on the King size bed and balcony overlooking Sea World!
Moral of the story: If you say yes to everything that is asked of you...make sure that good food and free trips are involved!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Peabody
Arkansas was a lot more fun than I expected. I had the opinion that it would be a country, small town, nothing to do kind of place...and it was...but I had fun!
I got to see the Statue of the Little Rock Nine. These kids had guts and I was very inspired to have the courage they did.
I also got to see the Clinton Memorial Library and it was pretty awesome. The building was modern and the insides were full of memorabilia from the Clinton Era in the White House.
After I saw the sights (that was all of them) I hung out in the hotel and got to see the ducks! These ducks are trained to walk a red carpet each morning and evening into and from the pond inside the lobby of the hotel. It was a lot of fun to watch and I took some pretty cute pics :)
I thought that everything was done and finished until some of the other girls asked me to go out with them. Let me start by saying that I am not the going out type and I DO NOT, by any means, dance. It freaks me out, but I decided to go anyway. We went to a dueling piano bar and it was crazy. Tons of people, in plaid, and then the dancing started. I didn't dance, but everyone else did and I sat at the table. Like a loser. Who sits at a table at a bar? I really wish that I could just dance..dance..dance like everyone else, but it really FREAKS me out. I feel like every time I start to do something that even closely resembles dancing, someone comments on it and then I stop immediately. I need therapy.
The trip was successful none the less and I met some pretty cool people :)
Moral of the Story: Please do not make me dance, ask me to dance, or comment if I start to dance. Now I am going to go and sit at a table by myself.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Timeline of Travel
Yesterday was the day I left for my conferences in Arkansas. A break from my everyday life and some professional development to make me a better teacher...bring it. However, I should have known that things would go awry. It always happens. Here is how my yesterday went:
7:20 - alarm goes off
7:30 - alarm goes off again
7:40 - alarm goes off for a third time
8:00 - alarm goes off for the fifth time and I decide to finally get up
8:02 - phone rings (my Mom making sure I got up for my flight)
8:15 - putting last few items in suitcase
8:17 - feed cats
8:19 - leave note for sister
8:20 - Write rent check because its due today
8:25 - pack car
8:30 - Drop rent check off
8:32 - Try to make a phone call, but phone is missing, search car
8:37 - Start to panic and then go through my purse, my carry on, and my luggage
8:45 - drive back to my apartment and search inside
9:00 - decide that I will have to leave without my phone
9:02 - get in the car and phone is miraculously in my purse ( I swear i checked three times)
9:25 - stop and get coffee (really needed this)
9:40- park at the airport
9:50- Checked in, bought some apple juice, waiting
10:30 - Decide to go through security because the line is short
10:45 - Still waiting in line because woman in front of me has apparently never traveled since 2001
10:47 - Woman in front of me didn't have her liquids in a bag, didn't know she had to take her shoes off, and left her laptop inside the computer case. Can people really not know the travel safety rules? Is it not on the 6:00 news nightly?
10:55 - Finally going through security scanner after woman goes through 3 times and forgot to take things off.
10:56 - Guard asks me to step to the side
10:57 - "Ma'am, I am going to have to pat you down" (Woman in front of me turns around and automatically thinks that I am the devil)
10:58 - "Ma'am, I need to check your hands for signs of explosives" ( Now the woman in front of me is freaking out and shaking her head at me)
(I am now freaking out slightly because I want to know if there was a threat by someone who is 22, blonde, and overweight flying from Gainesville to Little Rock or if it was just my lucky day)
11:03 - "Ma'am, you are free to go through"
11:05 - Back in a seat waiting, reading, minding my own business
11:07 - Oldest woman in the world decides to sit next to me and "chat"
11:12 - "We will now be boarding Flight #### to Atlanta. All passengers who spend a lot of money on our airline and who get the comfy seats please line up now. The rest of you wait your turn." (Oldest lady ever gets up)
11:15 - People start to board the plane!
11:16 - The same people are being ushered back into the terminal.
11:18 - "Excuse me travelers flying on flight ####. There has been a small mechanical issue on the plane and we will have a slight delay. We will resume boarding at 11:35)
11:35 - Nothing
11:45 - Nothing
11:53 - "We will now be boarding Flight #### to Atlanta. All passengers who spend a lot of money on our airline and who get the comfy seats please line up now. The rest of you wait your turn."
11:55 - People board
11:57- "We will now be boarding Flight #### to Atlanta. All zones."
11:59- I board
12:01- I am sitting, reading, IPOD in hand ready to tune out everything else
12:10 - "Excuse me everyone, this is Captain So-and-So, we have a slight delay in paperwork and will be taking off shortly.
12:15 - Sitting at gate
12:25 - Sitting at gate
12:35 - STILL SITTING AT GATE
12:42 - Start to back away from the gate
12:52 - Take off. "Excuse me passengers, his is Captain So-and-So, we will be arriving in Atlanta in 55 minutes."
(My connecting flight is at 1:55. This gives me 63 minutes until my flight leaves. Probably not gonna happen.)
1:51 - Land. (I have 4 minutes. Not gonna happen)
2:01 - Still on runway. Why?
2:10 - Finally unloading plane, on the tarmac, no ramp. NO RAMP in Atlanta? Isn't this one of the busiest airports? They ran out of ramps?
2:15 - Get to my connecting flight gate.
2:16 - I ask, "Has the 1:55 flight to Little Rock left?"
2:16 - Woman behind the counter says, "Yep"
2:16 - I say, "Ok, well my flight was delayed and I missed my connection"
2:17 - Woman behind the counter says, "ok" (The woman says 1 word..1 FREAKING word)
(Again I asked myself, Isn't this one of the busiest airports? Shouldn't these employees be prepared to handle situations like this?)
2:19 - After typing, she tells me to go to gate ### and ask them for a ticket.
2:26 - I get to gate ### and the woman behind this counter says, "that flight has been moved to gate ###."
2:32 - Get to gate ###. Get ticket. Sit.
3:42- Take off to Little Rock.
4:59- Land.
5:15- Wait for shuttle and get to hotel. Check in for conference and go to dinner.
Thank you Delta for making my day a fabulous experience from start to finish. I truly appreciated the invasion of privacy, the delays, and the great customer service.
Moral of the story: Bring a lot of reading material, eat breakfast, and plan to sit when traveling by plane. Or drive.
7:20 - alarm goes off
7:30 - alarm goes off again
7:40 - alarm goes off for a third time
8:00 - alarm goes off for the fifth time and I decide to finally get up
8:02 - phone rings (my Mom making sure I got up for my flight)
8:15 - putting last few items in suitcase
8:17 - feed cats
8:19 - leave note for sister
8:20 - Write rent check because its due today
8:25 - pack car
8:30 - Drop rent check off
8:32 - Try to make a phone call, but phone is missing, search car
8:37 - Start to panic and then go through my purse, my carry on, and my luggage
8:45 - drive back to my apartment and search inside
9:00 - decide that I will have to leave without my phone
9:02 - get in the car and phone is miraculously in my purse ( I swear i checked three times)
9:25 - stop and get coffee (really needed this)
9:40- park at the airport
9:50- Checked in, bought some apple juice, waiting
10:30 - Decide to go through security because the line is short
10:45 - Still waiting in line because woman in front of me has apparently never traveled since 2001
10:47 - Woman in front of me didn't have her liquids in a bag, didn't know she had to take her shoes off, and left her laptop inside the computer case. Can people really not know the travel safety rules? Is it not on the 6:00 news nightly?
10:55 - Finally going through security scanner after woman goes through 3 times and forgot to take things off.
10:56 - Guard asks me to step to the side
10:57 - "Ma'am, I am going to have to pat you down" (Woman in front of me turns around and automatically thinks that I am the devil)
10:58 - "Ma'am, I need to check your hands for signs of explosives" ( Now the woman in front of me is freaking out and shaking her head at me)
(I am now freaking out slightly because I want to know if there was a threat by someone who is 22, blonde, and overweight flying from Gainesville to Little Rock or if it was just my lucky day)
11:03 - "Ma'am, you are free to go through"
11:05 - Back in a seat waiting, reading, minding my own business
11:07 - Oldest woman in the world decides to sit next to me and "chat"
11:12 - "We will now be boarding Flight #### to Atlanta. All passengers who spend a lot of money on our airline and who get the comfy seats please line up now. The rest of you wait your turn." (Oldest lady ever gets up)
11:15 - People start to board the plane!
11:16 - The same people are being ushered back into the terminal.
11:18 - "Excuse me travelers flying on flight ####. There has been a small mechanical issue on the plane and we will have a slight delay. We will resume boarding at 11:35)
11:35 - Nothing
11:45 - Nothing
11:53 - "We will now be boarding Flight #### to Atlanta. All passengers who spend a lot of money on our airline and who get the comfy seats please line up now. The rest of you wait your turn."
11:55 - People board
11:57- "We will now be boarding Flight #### to Atlanta. All zones."
11:59- I board
12:01- I am sitting, reading, IPOD in hand ready to tune out everything else
12:10 - "Excuse me everyone, this is Captain So-and-So, we have a slight delay in paperwork and will be taking off shortly.
12:15 - Sitting at gate
12:25 - Sitting at gate
12:35 - STILL SITTING AT GATE
12:42 - Start to back away from the gate
12:52 - Take off. "Excuse me passengers, his is Captain So-and-So, we will be arriving in Atlanta in 55 minutes."
(My connecting flight is at 1:55. This gives me 63 minutes until my flight leaves. Probably not gonna happen.)
1:51 - Land. (I have 4 minutes. Not gonna happen)
2:01 - Still on runway. Why?
2:10 - Finally unloading plane, on the tarmac, no ramp. NO RAMP in Atlanta? Isn't this one of the busiest airports? They ran out of ramps?
2:15 - Get to my connecting flight gate.
2:16 - I ask, "Has the 1:55 flight to Little Rock left?"
2:16 - Woman behind the counter says, "Yep"
2:16 - I say, "Ok, well my flight was delayed and I missed my connection"
2:17 - Woman behind the counter says, "ok" (The woman says 1 word..1 FREAKING word)
(Again I asked myself, Isn't this one of the busiest airports? Shouldn't these employees be prepared to handle situations like this?)
2:19 - After typing, she tells me to go to gate ### and ask them for a ticket.
2:26 - I get to gate ### and the woman behind this counter says, "that flight has been moved to gate ###."
2:32 - Get to gate ###. Get ticket. Sit.
3:42- Take off to Little Rock.
4:59- Land.
5:15- Wait for shuttle and get to hotel. Check in for conference and go to dinner.
Thank you Delta for making my day a fabulous experience from start to finish. I truly appreciated the invasion of privacy, the delays, and the great customer service.
Moral of the story: Bring a lot of reading material, eat breakfast, and plan to sit when traveling by plane. Or drive.
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