Too Much Sand

Well, I have suddenly found myself having an excess amount of time. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a negative thing. However this extra time I have on hand lately has involved me sitting in a hotel room by myself watching reruns of House. I have been doing an unusual amount of work-related travel the past couple of months, thus leading to the afore-mentioned alone time. I said all that to say that in order to kill some of this otherwise mind-numbing boredom, I would start this blog. Probably this will just involve whatever random thoughts are running through my head whenever I've got some time to sit down and write something.

I always thought I would enjoy doing a little business travel, but it's not as much fun as I had imagined. Some trips I take are pretty fun. For instance when I go to Chattanooga I can hang out with a couple of friends from school that live there. Now, I'm in Knoxville. Working 12 hour shifts. And I don't know a soul who lives here, except the other people who work up here. Most of them are about 15-20 years older than me. This translates to me being bored out of my mind in a hotel room. It's Super Bowl Sunday, and I can't even enjoy the game because it's not much fun to watch by yourself.

OK, so that last paragraph was a little emo, but I'm going to leave it in. I'm feeling a little depressed right now so please don't hold the emo against me. I promise I won't start wearing all black and eyeliner.

One good thing about this trip is that I tried Thai food for the first time. It was awesome. I'm going to have to have it again before I go home. I'm pretty sure there isn't anywhere in Florence to get Thai.

If anyone is wondering why I'm in Knoxville, I'm doing some support for the Kingston Ash Slide recovery effort. The experience will probably good in the long run, but right now it's not much fun at all.

Enough rambling, I meant to keep this short. Screwed that up huh?