Frequent Flyer
I’ve been traveling, each week, for the last four weeks. I have been to Dallas, Scottsdale and LA twice. I awake on Saturday mornings concerned about check-out times and flight departures – and then I realize that I am already home. Jo, at the dry cleaners around the corner, knows me and my travel schedule. I see her each Saturday around 10am, and then I return around 5pm to collect my items. We joke about my travel and she calls me “the flight attendant”. I am tired. On top of that, this last week, I came down with a cold. A stuffy head, runny nose, scratchy throat, plugged ears sort of doozie. But, the show had to go on and I worked through it. I am taking four different prescriptions to combat the ridiculous bug that has clung to my lungs and ear drums. Taking all these drugs is a part time job. I’ve even found myself reading US magazine and eating Haggen-Dazs – it’s been that bad. Some good has come from all the travel. Some recognition at work through increased numbers and therefore happy managers. A couple fun dinners with Mom and Dad in SoCal. And a new collective of friends in LA who extend invitations to rollerskate, attend gallery openings and play pool in Manhattan Beach in the evenings. All this running around however, is making me tired. I am about to turn 26 and I am tired of many, many, things – a whole other story. I watched Quarterlife a few weeks ago from my hotel room in Dallas. I threw four of my eight pillows at the tv out of frustration. That is not “my life”. Those are not “my peers”. That is no where near what I have experienced. I am certain that Quarterlife’s 15 minutes is up. (If only my next 5 years were!) The following day (on my flight home, ironically) I sat next to an Ad Exec from LA. He confirmed with me that the show “is over” and we ate our peanuts to that. In the next month I will be back in LA, all around the Bay Area, and then up to Seattle to see Cari Stieg, my boyfriend Dave Matthews, and his buddy the Dalai Lama. I’m already planning to remove my electronic items from their stowed position and turn them on, in order to fill you in on the places I’ve been.
