I am on my way to the AWP conference in Denver. My boss, James Lough, Ph.D., and I will meet and mingle with other writers and professors, and talk to folks about SCAD. I’ve never been to the AWP conference, so I’m pretty excited.
I love traveling in general. I’ll go anywhere, anytime. I don’t love packing (and unpacking), though. It makes me cranky.
I love airports and flying. I don’t love road trips, especially ones that require me to drive.
I love watching fools at airports. I don’t love when these fools are in front of me in any kind of queue. Like the mother and son in front of me in the security line.
I am the best person to be behind in the security line. I wear slip-off shoes, pants that don’t need a belt, and toiletries are in a bag and on the conveyor belt before you can blink.
The pair in front of me may never hve been in an airport before. Their carry-on bags were filled with a Macy’s-worth of cologne/perfume, hair products and lotions — all loose in the bags. Everything they had on was metal. I half expected the woman to take off her leg after her fourth failed attempt to pass through the scanner.
But I love traveling, so I smiled my most benevolent smile and waited patiently. And tried not to think about my bare feet sucking up all the germs from the floor.
And now my germs and I are in first class, and life is very good.
Observe and report 
First class–sweet! How long are you in Denver? Where’s the conference? If you get a chance, you might enjoy checking out the Tattered Cover in LoDo (although from what I hear, it’s well past its glory; back in the day, I used to work at the now-closed Cherry Creek TC store with occasional shifts in LoDo).
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I’ll try to check it out, but I won’t have a car, and I don’t know how much time I’ll have. The conference is at the Hyatt Regency.
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Tech Center? Or elsewhere in Denver?
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Colorado Convention Center. The one with that big blue bear outside.
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I am like you at the airport – I am always prepared for the lines/drills but it seems no one else is. Last year when I went to Vegas I ponied up my bag on the conveyor along with my purse – it went thru – I did not – was caught in the scanner line behind some lady with what I believe must have been a metal shirt and shorts…then she had 5 large tubes of toothpaste (in boxes) CREST in her bag – I guess she was smuggling them to her next destination…..I am always freaked about the germs and someone just walking off with my stuff as it waits for me at the end of the scanner line……
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Ooooh — I worry about that too! Who needs that many boxes of toothpaste? Does she have sharks with gingivitis at home?
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