Gosh, I'm exhausted already this week and it's only Monday! I was gone for work in Nashville on Friday. Ian and I spent the night there so we could explore on Saturday. It turns out that unless you're a big country music fan (which I'm not), there's not much to do there. It was kind of a disappointing city, really. Lots of road construction--so bad that the only place that Ian and I could compare it to was Costa Rica, and Costa Rica won the better roads contest. (And that's a country that doesn't put guard rails up on hair-pin turns in the mountains and trucks pass you in said mountains!) Also, it was just so hot that we didn't want to be outside at all. We drove around looking for a coffee shop downtown to waste some time before one of my meetings, and when we finally found a Starbucks (no indy coffee shops to be found), there wasn't any parking within 3 blocks. Also no bookstore downtown. None. I asked. What kind of city doesn't have a bookstore???
Well, anyways, at least we got to go swimming at the hotel and see the Nashville Parthenon. Ian made us go. It was kind of funny because the gift shop had all kinds of things you could buy, including a sno-globe with gold glitter as the snow and a commerative plate. I guess if you can't get to the real Parthenon, this one will have to do!
I got back to work today and had to attend a 3-hour meeting that included lunch with those people in the cafeteria. Don't bosses know that "lunch hour" doesn't just mean the hour that we eat lunch, but a break from work and those we work with???!!! And tomorrow it's off to Cincinnati for another work trip, and then it's just a short countdown till school starts again.
And I thought summers were supposed to be slow and relaxed...
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