The Argument Clinic

Now I don’t mind visiting cities so much and sometimes when I am bored where I live I think to myself “it would be nice to have more to do like they do in new york city or boston”.  But then I actually arrive in that city for a short trip and think “nope, I’m happy where I am”…because cities are too noisy for me and there is just too much going on all the time.  I realize that’s part of why some people like them…I can kind of see that.  I am not someone who really likes the country either though because I still like to be near some stuff.  Guess I am just one of those people who likes it somewhere in between the two.  I suppose that could change if it needed to at some point in my life, but right now I am pretty content where I am. 

If I had to choose a city to live in though it would probably be boston, I have always liked it there (besides the fact that the last time I was there for more than a few hours was the same day my grandpa died…that isn’t boston’s fault so I won’t hold it against it).  I really wouldn’t want to live in new york city…just not a city I am very comfortable in I guess.  I like it for day trips to do something specific (see a show or something), but its just too overwhelming of a place to me, in general.  The little I had to put up with it in penn station today was enough for me   It is a little odd though that I have been to nyc relatively few times considering I have lived within hours of it my whole life though.

Well, off to do my walk aerobics…I brought my personal dvd player so I can keep up with my exercising when I am out of town.  I always feel guilty if I need to give it up for a few days.

So I have arrived in philadelphia.  Train ride was nice.  It always amazes me how close some of the houses are to the train tracks though, the semi-constant noise would drive me nuts if I lived that close.  Nothing too exciting today though, my trip was pretty uneventful (which is good actually, eventful trips don’t usually tend to equal good trips for me).  Though when I was in the train station in philadelphia, I did wonder if I would be stuck on the elevator forever.  Me and two other women got on the elevator that brings you up to the station from the terminals and it would go up, the doors wouldn’t open, and then we would be sent back down to the terminals again.  (and yes, we did press the button for the correct floor).  Obviously since I got to the hotel ok, we did eventually get to the correct floor but it seemed to take a while.  We were so excited when the door opened and we saw something other than the trains lined up/boarding.  Then when I got to my hotel, the woman in front of me in line was one of the women from the elevator.  If I had only known that maybe we could have shared a cab

Speaking of cabs, have you ever been in one that is new?  Logically every taxi must have been new at one point…but I have never been in one that IS new so I wonder if they age taxis before putting them into service (kind of like those jeans you can buy that have the look of being worn in before you get them?)…maybe that’s it, they purposely make them all look crappy so that no one can be jealous of another person for getting a new taxi when they have an old crappy looking one.  If that’s not what happens, then where are the new taxis sent?  And why aren’t they ever sent to where I am?   I would have rented a car only I didn’t really feel like trying to navigate my way around the city this week when I really only need to be in the hotel. 

Its interesting (to me at least, you can disagree I suppose), I have been on business trips to several cities over the past few years and this is the only hotel I have been in where you can’t use the elevators without scanning your room key once you are inside.  I guess its for security purposes which kind of makes sense, but I have never been to a hotel where they do that.  Hmmm…can’t people just sneak on the elevator with other people who have keys though and avoid having to scan at all though?  Not sure how that works.  I guess any kind of elevator-related security system is only going to be so effective I suppose. 

The hotel I am in is right on the delaware river, but since the conference I am here for got the discounted rate, my room obviously doesn’t face that way.  But my view of the city includes a really nice view of the sunset too (and the sun was actually out today so that actually mattered too ), so I can’t really complain…I have definitely had worse views from my hotel room window     I think the best view I have had in a hotel room that I can remember though was in albuquerque actually…could see the mountains off in the distance (well, actually, the view in antigua was nice too but that was personal travel, not business).  And the mountains in albuquerque are very different than the ones in new york….the color of the ones in albuquerque were this tan color that you don’t get in ny (given the fact that we don’t have a desert out here anywhere)….and the sunset over the mountains there was really pretty. 

I try to appreciate things like that when I am on a business trip cause I don’t usually have much time to see much else

Today is a really nice day for a train ride, its pretty along the river and the sun is actually shining today . 20 minutes until ny-penn station.

I know I haven’t posted in a couple of days, I have been pretty busy getting ready to go to philadelphia this week. Am currently sitting in the train station waiting to leave. Exciting stuff . Will probably post from PA if I have anything worth writing about. I plan to at least get back on track with my OT reading. Back to being bored as I wait for my train. Hmmm…probably wouldn’t have to be bored for quite so long if I wasn’t so anal that I always feel the need to get everywhere early. Oh well, just don’t want to add unnecessary stress to traveling I guess