Travel boots on

Just because there isn't any blogging doesn't mean I'm vegetating. C'mon people a lil more faith,a girl has to work after all. And when work calleth this gal's gotta wear her travel boots and be off to far far away lands . Living in a hotel out of a suitcase is a wee bit limiting for the creative juices. I spend most of my energies getting lost in new and interesting ways or BSing my way out of trouble or into...no matter.
So the first thing I do after I land in a new place ( which is usually every week) is concentrate on figuring out a foolproof way to get to and back from work to hotel. This done, second order of business is to locate a place where I can get decent predictable grub without too much trouble. Considering that I do not eat meat and am looking for at least semi-healthy food the later can get challenging specially if one is located in the Midwest of the US of A. The great country is not so great for vegetarian food options on the go.This any vegetarian traveller struck in airport lounges munching on lays chips will verify. Anyhoo... remarkably after only a single dinner mishap with an un-named pasta with what appeared to be marinara sauce and suspicious lil brown bits which I wasn't brave enough to investigate too deeply into , I'm more or less all set to camp here in Salt Lake city .

SLC impressions:
*The city is smaller than I thought it would be. Winter Olympics n all, I was expecting something much bigger.
*It feels to me like an old coat ... rundown, faded,hidden away.But the surrounding mountains are phenomenal.

Pink Ribbons

With pastels.The motivation for the picture is here.

Camelman

Vegetating

For all those wondering about the non-activity on the blog.I haven't been writing coz there isn't anything to write about.I've been playing vegetable past few days.Playing vegetable needs one to switch off mind and mobility,lie on a couch with a good view of the telly keeping remote handy while consuming copious amounts of calories and watch McCoy kick ass on re-runs of Law and Order. I find the best way to deal with this mode is to lie back and wait for it to wear itself out. Fighting is futile...

Me and Murphy's law

RULE 1: The other lanes moved faster

Got stuck due to car breakdowns, accidents, construction etc 3 times in 4 days. The 4th day I parked 3 blocks away from work , 10 minutes from a crucial meeting and it starts pouring...which brings me to rule 2.

RULE2:You will always find something in the last place you look

Searched the front and back seats( in,on and under) frantically for an umbrella .Other than some gooey brown remains of indeterminate origin wrapped in plastic, there was no sign of one. At this time I was debating the relative benefit of making a dash for it . Considering that 3 blocks+downtown lights+ pouring rain makes for one wet muggle for the meeting Vs sitting in car waiting for rain to stop would result in no muggle for meeting. Neither sounded like a good idea. As a last resort I open the trunk hoping for something, really anything at this point and ta-da .. there it is the elusive umbrella.So naturally, one would assume that alls well with the world now .Well,lemme tell you that one would be completely and utterly wrong in that assumption.Moving on to rule 3

RULE3:There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over

So DRY batty makes it to meeting on time . When I say meeting, I really only use that word in the loosest possible sense. It was really an excuse for batty muggle bashing . Lower end of the food chain and all that.

So everything that can go wrong went wrong....oh wait whats that ominous red light blinking at the bottom of my laptop screen ;)