It looks like I'm going to be sent to California in late September. I'll be there for four days with four other coworkers, spending time at the studio in Burbank and a day at D-land. I don't want to go but I'm being asked to (usually I volunteer but I haven't been in a traveling mood of late). It's the flight I'm most worried about. Last time I flew coast-to-coast I had an awful flight. It was a red-eye, my first ever, and though I had taken a sedative I woke up during turbulence and had a panic attack; due to my insistence about getting the window seat, I was completely trapped by sleeping people (coworkers, no less). The flights I'm taking will be during the morning, and they'll be split in two by a transfer in Dallas. So maybe each plane won't be filled up with enough fuel to be a terrorist target, right?

Also, for the first time ever we're being told we will have to share rooms. Bullshit. We found incredibly cheap flights - $200 round trip from the northeast to the southwest corners of the country. I've taken this trip before and my plane ticket's usually more like $1100. I think we can spare an extra hotel room so I can read in bed all night and fart and pick my nose in privacy.

That was probably too much information for most of you. Sorry.