you won't believe it
...ive actually been busy at work! i know i know...who would have thought those words would ever come outta my mouth, the girl who checks her email every 3 minutes at work and has browsed practically every website known to man...the clean ones that is. so what has turned me into such a hard, almost overwhelmed, worker? D.C. yeah that little paid vacation i took two weeks ago with work was far from a vacation to say the least. it consisted of days that started at 530 in the morning and didnt end until 530 at nite..sometimes later. needless to say, i was worn out, and going to bed at 930 was nothing to be embarrassed about.
BUT...all work and no play would make kate a boring girl right? right. i couldnt go to d.c. and not see d.c. so...as much as i wanted to jump into bed when 'free time' rolled around on thursday nite, i instead became the ultimate tourist with fully equipped with camera in one hand..map in the other. the map was about as good as my sense of direction..which, if you know me at all...it pretty useless. so yeah, i kinda had a hard time finding the white house. just so you know...there are a LOT of big white buildings. i found one at first that was real big...real white...kinda wondered why no one else was looking at it or taking pictures...oh right..bc it wasnt the white house. all to say...i found it! but honestly, it wasnt even the most exciting thing there. dont worry..i saw lots more...i walked for freaking 4 hours straight and thought my legs were going to fall off. it was probably one of the most miserable touristy times of my life but my thought process the whole time was that i didnt know when or if i would ever come back to d.c. and see all this stuff so i needed to see it NOW. you would think i was running a marathon the way i had to coach myself through the experience to keep going. who knew walking was so hard? up until that day i thought it was something i had actually mastered in life. but four hours later i was ready to hop onto the homeless guys back and pay him to give me a piggy back ride to my hotel. but enough with my crying...it was all worth it in the end..i got to see a lot of cool stuff....for instance...the washington monument, world war memorial, lincoln memorial, nations capital etc etc. and heres the thing i liked the most about d.c...its not just a regular town with a couple cool memorials here and there. its like 15 square blocks of huge, amazing, buildings - each with its own ornate and beautiful architecture. i mean, even the dept. of agriculture was a pretty building. you cant go 10 feet without seeing another person taking pictures...and its probably not even all tourists...its a great outlet for photographers im sure. here are some of the pictures i took if you wanna check them out...ill label them and edit them whenever i have a chance...
so what else about the trip...well i guess the whole purpose was to have our national meeting that my organization, the medical institute, hosts. its actually pretty cool...about 500 people come from all over the US and some other countries to basically be fed a lot of information about sexual health...from stds to abstinence to parents involvement with their kids etc. it was kinda neat bc i got to meet a lot of the customers i interact with on the phone and was able to place faces with names. it was also good bc everyone is so encouraging and shows their appreciation for our company and what we're doing in the world and it makes you feel like your job actually has purpose..which is definitely something i was lacking recently. plus, my boss shawna and i hung out most of the time and had a lot of fun...shes pretty great and now shes not just my boss but my friend too. sounds cheesy..but it makes work a lot more fun when you can joke around and be sarcastic with your boss, i promise.
the only bad part about the trip was getting there and back...and thats only bc im not the hugest fan of planes and airports. ok i hate them. and i dont have a fear of flying or anything like that..its not an anxiety thing. just the smell of airport terminals makes me nauseous...and i dont even get sick on planes...its just not happy, pleasant feelings the whole time. luckily its kinda a hit and miss thing...sometimes im just fine...sometimes its just kinda miserable. and to my dismay..this trip was the latter. i stinking flew to korea and back and was fine...that was like 2 days on a plane...just one of those things i guess. anyways...needless to say..i was happy when the plane landed and the trip was over...our boss graciously gave us the tuesday after memorial day off so we got a nice long weekend to relax and recuperate. and little did i know i would need it so badly....last week and this week in the office has been CRAZY trying to play catch up from when i was gone and then doing all the stuff from the meeting...so that kinda explains my two week drought on here. sorry for that....i still have more to tell to keep you fully updated but youll have to wait till next time bc its my bedtime and this entry has become a novel...
stay tuned!
BUT...all work and no play would make kate a boring girl right? right. i couldnt go to d.c. and not see d.c. so...as much as i wanted to jump into bed when 'free time' rolled around on thursday nite, i instead became the ultimate tourist with fully equipped with camera in one hand..map in the other. the map was about as good as my sense of direction..which, if you know me at all...it pretty useless. so yeah, i kinda had a hard time finding the white house. just so you know...there are a LOT of big white buildings. i found one at first that was real big...real white...kinda wondered why no one else was looking at it or taking pictures...oh right..bc it wasnt the white house. all to say...i found it! but honestly, it wasnt even the most exciting thing there. dont worry..i saw lots more...i walked for freaking 4 hours straight and thought my legs were going to fall off. it was probably one of the most miserable touristy times of my life but my thought process the whole time was that i didnt know when or if i would ever come back to d.c. and see all this stuff so i needed to see it NOW. you would think i was running a marathon the way i had to coach myself through the experience to keep going. who knew walking was so hard? up until that day i thought it was something i had actually mastered in life. but four hours later i was ready to hop onto the homeless guys back and pay him to give me a piggy back ride to my hotel. but enough with my crying...it was all worth it in the end..i got to see a lot of cool stuff....for instance...the washington monument, world war memorial, lincoln memorial, nations capital etc etc. and heres the thing i liked the most about d.c...its not just a regular town with a couple cool memorials here and there. its like 15 square blocks of huge, amazing, buildings - each with its own ornate and beautiful architecture. i mean, even the dept. of agriculture was a pretty building. you cant go 10 feet without seeing another person taking pictures...and its probably not even all tourists...its a great outlet for photographers im sure. here are some of the pictures i took if you wanna check them out...ill label them and edit them whenever i have a chance...
so what else about the trip...well i guess the whole purpose was to have our national meeting that my organization, the medical institute, hosts. its actually pretty cool...about 500 people come from all over the US and some other countries to basically be fed a lot of information about sexual health...from stds to abstinence to parents involvement with their kids etc. it was kinda neat bc i got to meet a lot of the customers i interact with on the phone and was able to place faces with names. it was also good bc everyone is so encouraging and shows their appreciation for our company and what we're doing in the world and it makes you feel like your job actually has purpose..which is definitely something i was lacking recently. plus, my boss shawna and i hung out most of the time and had a lot of fun...shes pretty great and now shes not just my boss but my friend too. sounds cheesy..but it makes work a lot more fun when you can joke around and be sarcastic with your boss, i promise.
the only bad part about the trip was getting there and back...and thats only bc im not the hugest fan of planes and airports. ok i hate them. and i dont have a fear of flying or anything like that..its not an anxiety thing. just the smell of airport terminals makes me nauseous...and i dont even get sick on planes...its just not happy, pleasant feelings the whole time. luckily its kinda a hit and miss thing...sometimes im just fine...sometimes its just kinda miserable. and to my dismay..this trip was the latter. i stinking flew to korea and back and was fine...that was like 2 days on a plane...just one of those things i guess. anyways...needless to say..i was happy when the plane landed and the trip was over...our boss graciously gave us the tuesday after memorial day off so we got a nice long weekend to relax and recuperate. and little did i know i would need it so badly....last week and this week in the office has been CRAZY trying to play catch up from when i was gone and then doing all the stuff from the meeting...so that kinda explains my two week drought on here. sorry for that....i still have more to tell to keep you fully updated but youll have to wait till next time bc its my bedtime and this entry has become a novel...
stay tuned!
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