My Quickest Intercontinental Trip Yet

I am sitting in the airport lounge at the Frankfurt International Airport, about two hours before my flight for Hong Kong departs. It's been a quick but good trip to Germany for work. The weather has been gorgeous and the travel relatively easy considering I've had two strips of 18 hour travel in the last 4 days. But even as I sit here, I am reading a story in the International Herald Tribune on the possibility that airlines might implement standing only seats for passengers in the future. They are reportedly being pitched to airlines in Asia. I can't even imagine... Makes me hunger for the comfort of bed at home.

Crazy

It's been a hectic couple of weeks. Today a website I've been working on for work launched: www.kauffman.org/research. Tonight I go to Germany for three days for work. Eric has been gone for two weeks and gets home about 15 minutes. We've decided to move back to the U.S. this summer. The renovations on the floor below us mean constant drilling during the daytime. Just a couple of random things that have been going on, but things are largely good.

The sun is shining. It's getting hot here. We are going to go to a movie and for pizza.

Check Out Kim's Blog

http://kimchees.blogspot.com/2006/04/exactly-one-year-ago.html

Our good friend Kim posted a story about a recent day trip I took with her and a couple other friends to Macau.

12:05 in the AM

It's just after midnight and my conference calls just ended. I think I am a little loopy tired because the situation is just cracking me up. I am sitting here with a pair of headphones and a microphone on, talking to people in the U.S., trying to be all business-like. But then you add in the fact that I can't run the air conditioner and e on the phone at the same time because of the sensitivity of the microphone. So, closed door, lights, computer, and a couple of hours equate to about 95 degrees in here. I am wearing a t-shirt that Eric bought for me with the outline of squirrel on it, which means I am sitting here with headphones on, typing, wearing a squirrel t-shirt, and looking like I've just come back from a long run. Ah, conference calls.

In the Newspaper with the Head Bitch

The local English language daily decided to do a story on our knitting group (the stitch 'n bitch) but we weren't expecting a half page photo! Kim (one of our founders or as the article says, "head bitch", which is so not Kim) and I are featured here in what may be my only permanent record of having lived in Hong Kong. Glad I was caught in photo with a friend and at a Starbucks because that is so befitting of the experience. Here is the scanned document a little larger in case anyone wants to read the text, but it may be a bit too small still.

Late Night Conference Calls Summed Up

Meet My Cousin

This is Aimee.



She lives in New York now and I am so proud of her!! She sent this photo to me today with just the line "Hello from the Office!" which is so perfect and made me laugh. She has been living in NY for over a year now and is really making her way there and doing well. She, like me, is an iced coffee addict, but she has it even better than I do in that she orders iced coffees delivered to her apartment from the corner market;-) That just cracks me up but goes to show that the advantages of living in the city are many and seldom predictable.