Cincinnati

I got out of Texas for a few days.  First, flew to Atlanta, where I visited my friend, Tom, and then the two of us drove up to Cincinnati for the NABBA board meeting.  Did that for a couple of days, checked out Cincinnati's Oktoberfest, then drove back and I flew back to Texas.  Put into words, it is a much shorter trip than I thought it would be.  I'd intended to stay longer in Atlanta and see more people, but when I got the job at the hotel last month I decided to make it a shorter trip.

Re: the job: the girl who hired me has quit, so all those things I said in my interview ("My schedule is totally flexible!  I plan on working here for 3-4 years, at least!  I have NO OTHER commitments at all!") no longer exist.  I can act as selfish and temp-jobby as I want.  Not that I WILL, but I could.

The board meeting was only a little frustrating; we usually line out a lot of projects that never get any attention the rest of the year.  Next year we'll talk about the same projects.  The organization is largely about running an annual competition, and we always pull that off.  We did push through our agenda to finish early on Saturday, so I got some cool photos of the street festival.

While I was in Ohio, John got a call from our real estate agent.  She was contacted by HGTV to be on one of their first-time homebuyer shows--My First Place--and she asked us to apply for it.  I'm not a fan of reality TV, nor of TV in general, but I'm a good sport.  I just asked them not to make me look fat.  (Good luck to them, lol.)  The schedule of the show looks like it might not work for us, anyway--they want to follow people through the entire buying process, but John and I have already started.  The show would want to film us over a 3-month period, but we want to be out of our apartment by the end of the year.  We'll see what happens.