So I'm off again, on another little trip and not a moment too soon! It's been a brutal winter--we've had incapacitating snowstorms and ice storms and the snow has melted to become black ice almost nightly. I wore my snow boots, which I generally only wear once or twice a year, for two months straight. I combated the chill with visits to Russian banyas, fondue parties and hot chocolate festivals (pictured here, City Bakery's famous hot chocolate, which is really more like a pudding)
but I'm ready for a little heat and sun!
I planned this trip to be a pitifully short 9 day excursion--the classic American worker bee trip--to southern Vietnam, meeting my brother Chris, who lives in Bangkok...and then I lost my job, 5 days before departure! I was pleased. I work for a small, poorly managed company with severe cash flow problems and the last several weeks have been very Glengarry Glen Ross--read, incredibly stressful! Suffice it to say that no tears were shed when I learned I would be laid off. "Wonderful!" I thought, "I can extend my trip indefinitely, or, at least, I can extend it until our next opera." J and I have a subscription at the Met and the next opera, Le Comte Ory, is in late April. As a result, I can extend my trip from 9 days to 5 weeks! Clearly, the gods are conspiring on my behalf!
So I paid a hefty fee to airfare.com to change my ticket, filed our taxes, submitted our summer CSA application and now I'm just about out of here! Only thing left to do is buy the new iPad!
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