My job and the people I meet...

If you didn't know, I'm a convention planner.

I'm the one running around with a clipboard or notebook in the back of your meeting room or convention center making sure everything is running smoothly. Some day I'll post a list of my best attendee interactions, but until then, here's one for you.

My friend Eric, also a convention planner, is on site in Florida at a meeting. Here's the interaction he had just this morning (and of course was very generous to share with his friends and colleagues)


I'm sitting here at the registration desk, on the second floor for the hotel, minding my own business.

A woman, very pretty, very blonde approaches and asks my help.

I tell her I'm not with the hotel, but could try to help her.

She can't find her room.

"It's on the first floor" she says. I tell her it's impossible that there are no guest rooms on the first floor of the Tampa Marriott. She asks me "why they would assign her room 1019 (number altered to protect the innocent) if there are no rooms on the first floor?"

I reply because it's on the 10 floor, not the 1 floor. And direct her to the elevators right over their (pointing).

She thanks, me

She laughs and says it's true what they say about blondes and takes the escalator DOWN to go to the elevators.

I thought it would be worse!

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Thanks to Bunny over at Down the Rabbit Hole. I thought I'd get a 2% considering I haven't been to Sunday School in forever!

TMI Tuesday!

A rather tame TMI compared to some, but still fun and informative:

1. Early bird or night owl?
As much as I'd love to say I'm a night owl, I'm an early bird. It's kind of dictated by my profession. I have to be at work an hour before a conference begins so I better be awake. When I was in ER health care I worked 2nd shift and wouldn't get home until midnight and often either went out with friends or stayed up watching TV to unwind. Back THEN I was a night owl, and I think could be again if I was able to shift my internal clock.

2. Where was the first place you ever had sex?
Oh God, this is gonna be cheesy and my friend Lea will no doubt prick her ears up and wonder "WHO?!" On a sailboat while Christopher Cross' "Sailing" was playing. I will not say how old I was.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you? (1 is lowest, 10 is highest)
How coincidental that this question came right after last night's post! I rate myself an 8 right now which is quite high considering that 4 months ago I would have said a 4 or less. I don't consider 1 as being UNhappy, but rather each level is like a thermometer showing how many things I have to be happy about. If I win the Mega Millions lottery tonight I'll shoot right up to 15!

4. Are you more submissive or dominant?
I'm what ever you want me to be SIR!
Too many ways to answer this question so I'll just cop out and say "It depends" and when I publish my own version of Madonna's SEX Book, you'll know more!

5. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Yes and no. I think it's more an instant infatuation/crush based on visual stimulus that sometimes works out on both sides to be a positive relationship. Funny how when both fall in love with each other, it's "love at first sight". When one person feels the love and it's unrequited it's called a crush or being out of one's league.

Bonus: Describe your bed time habits. What side do you sleep on?
What do you usual wear? Any night time rituals?
I am such a creature of habit/ritual:
- Brush teeth
- get into sleepwear (aka, nothing)
- get into bed on the side closest to the bedroom door
- turn on bedside TV (the sleep inducer)
- turn TV to Family Guy then autotune to The Simpsons
- program sleep timer to one hour
- watch a few minutes or turn over on my right side
- wake up in the morning

Happy Mini-Anniversary

My sweet bloggy-friend Bunny over at Down the Rabbit Hole celebrated her one year anniversary in the blogosphere (Happy Anni Bunny!) and it made me realize as I looked back over my blogs, that today, April 28, is my 4 month anniversary! 1/3 of a year ago I posted this :

Is This Year Over Yet?

It's funny what a few months can do. I look at the blog, and while it's humorous, I can remember how I was feeling then. I didn't know that a new job was over the horizon, I didn't know how happy I'd be with so many things in my life. I don't mean to over dramatize my life and I certainly wasn't, nor would I ever be, suicidal, but I can understand how things can look to people that it will never ever get better.

Anyway, I'm very happy to say that I'm not the same person I was when I wrote that. 2007 is over and 2008 is lookin' mighty fine! Bunny, hang in there. 2008 will get better for you too!

Oh yeah, I joined a gym today. When the shock of that wears off I'll tell you about it.

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Happy Monday everyone.

Marathon Blog notice. While the Marathon Blog will be updated often, it won't keep me from my witty repartee here! :)

BIG undertaking...

Project Christopher is adding a new big facet to the Project and that's getting healthier. As I told my doctor at my last physical, if I'm doing it for myself, then myself can talk me out of anything! If I'm doing it with or for someone else, then I'm far more driven to complete whatever it is.

Given that, I will be starting the AIDS Marathon Training Program next weekend and will be running in the Amsterdam Half Marathon on October 19. I have to raise a good bit of money to qualify, but oddly, I'm more worried about my lazy ass actually learning to run well enough to complete a half marathon.

Here's a funny part... I don't actually know how many miles a half marathon is and i think I like it that way for right now. It dawns on me that I don't think the Training Program literature mentions it either which may actually be intentional and a smart move!

Anyway, I have a website for donating that takes credit cards so it's simple! Every little bit helps. I'll keep the link over there to the right and if I can figure out how, will have one of those handy thermometers that show my progress.

Also, I'll be double duty blogging to show my progress in training.

Wish me luck! Maybe by the time I cross the finish line I'll be skinny...

Statistically speaking.....

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