Wednesday, October 17, 2007

What time is it? What day is it? Where am I? Bagels!

A Mongolian Chicken lunch in my hotel room while
watching a Neil Young concert on T.V.

Am I in Sacramento? No, I was in Elk Grove, a suburb of Sacramento. What is it, Thursday? No, Wednesday and I'm in Union City, a suburb of Oakland, CA. This morning I woke up at 5:30 a nervous wreck for my first day as a full-fledged program manager with nobody keeping tabs on my performance.

Special thanks to Andrea Koval for being there the first couple hours this morning to help register math teachers. She trained with me my first two days, but left at 10am, left me to the dogs flailing in paperwork and math teachers.


Considering my "first day jitters," everything closed with a bang and I even got a deal on the banquet room from the fabulous staff at the Holiday Inn Express in Elk Grove. Around 3pm myself and the instructor hit the road headed southwest through the beautiful hills of Northern California. We arrived around 5pm and hit the cocktail lounge for a couple drinks, some potato skins, and a BLT. She turned in soon after and I called a few friends including my Uncle Jimmy, who I'll be staying with in Chicago a week from Friday, and my brother Andy. The pool is nice but it's too cold to go swimming.



1 comment:

Betsy said...

Hey Bro! I didn't know you were staying with Jumbo in Chicagggoooo. Where's my phone call, by the way? I miss you a ton. When you come to MPLS, and rumor has it you will be here soon, we must have a deep discussion about life post graduation as I will find myself there soon. Stay well! Enjoy your travels! I am quite jealous!