chicago ho!

Music: Calvin Harris: I Created Disco (2007)

Today's blog title does not refer to the last entry, but my impending travel. The bags are packed and loaded into the car, and I've an arsenal of coats and overcoats and scarves for weathering freezing temperatures in Chicago. In an hour I depart for the airport to endure one of my least favorite activities (right up there with mopping, plucking eyebrows, and eating deep-fried pig scrotum): getting through an airport. Every time I go my bags are too heavy and I have to unload something. Every time I pass through security something sets off the metal detectors. Every time I am seated in front of or next to a small child for whom the changes in cabin pressure are too much to bear quietly.

I would say that I like to travel, except that I don’t. I like to be in different places; it's getting to those places that is the issue. And, this is the first time I'm leaving Jesús for an extended period of time; I'm worried he is going to drive the neighbor crazy and pee in her house.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing friends I've not seen in a while! It's exciting to think about. I'm coming into O'Hare at 2:30/3:00 p.m. If you’re a friend or simply just want to be and spy me in the "ground transportation" area, grab me and let's share a cab. And somewhere I will definitely be Thursday night: the Mem Shannon show at Buddy Guy's Legends!

I'll try to blog during the conference. Much of that depends on whether there is free wifi signals. In a conference area, that is probably not very likely, but one can hope.

Anyhoo, I'll see four of five of you readers here in a day!