August 21, 2011

• "Is This Heaven? No, It's Iowa."

  Ever since I was a little girl, I've always wanted to travel on business. I guess I just love travel and going anywhere else, especially if you have never been there before, is kind of exciting. And then when you throw in the fact that it is free since the company would pay for it, that makes traveling for business even better. So I jumped at the chance to go out of town this week for my job. The place: Iowa.

  Okay so everybody knows the main town in Iowa is Des Moines, that is, if you consider it to be a main town. So yes, I will be staying there. But, the actual town that I need to do the business in is a little town about an hour south of Des Monies called Lamoni. Now when I say little town, I mean little; according to Wikkipedia, it is a town that has about 2,444 people and is only 3.3 square miles. And, here is the kicker, it is a heavily populated Mormon town along with a sizable portion of Amish. Also, it is highly likely that I will be the darkest person they have seen there in years. Not that I'm all that dark; it is just that they are just that fucking white. So, this should be a great place for a gay Atheist to be.

  Des Moines is only a five hour drive from where I live. So naturally, the company is insisting that I fly there, even though I made it clear to everybody that I would strongly prefer to drive. It is no big secret that I hate to fly. But, I need to get over my fear of flying by doing it more, so that is the one good thing. But, from the time the limo picks me up at 2:30 in the P.M. to the time I get to my hotel, it will be five hours. It is a 40 minute drive to O'Hare, the fight leaves about 5:15 and is an hour and 15 minute flight, then we have to get our bags and car rental so actually, when I add it up, I'm thinking it is longer then five hours. And it would be cheaper for them to rent me a car and drive the whole damn thing, but they refused. Gosh flying is such a pain in the fucking ass. By the way, did I mention I'm going with a lady I barely know who is old enough to be my mother? She is very nice though.

  I know this post sounds like I'm bitching and complaining, but honestly, I'm not, I'm actually very excited about the whole trip as this will be the first time in my entire life that I'm traveling for business. Also, I will not be posting for the next week.

  Did I say that I used to be a little girl? Hmmm..............wow, how the fuck could I screw that one up?

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