Houston we have a problem...

Greetings from Houston!
It's been a while since I last blogged, and I thought I would log on and let you dear readers (of which there are only 3 that I know of! LOL) know what's up with me. First off, no, I haven't relocated to Houston (hey but you 3 already know that :P), I'm only here for a conference. Thank goodness my presentation was yesterday, and today afternoon I got to take some time off, got back to my hotel to change into my good old comfy Converse shoes (I HATE dressy shoes, they are so uncomfortable when you wear them for extended periods of time...So are formal clothes...), and hop around the city. When I first arrived here Sunday, I was a little worried, because it was raining and there was no one on the streets (well there were actually a lot of people, but they were quite scary...), and there was no place to eat at 4 pm!!! Everything was closed (yes even the McDonald's!). Anyway, yesterday I was stuck at the conference from 8 am-8 pm so I didn't get to see anything, but today, the weather was nice and I thought I'd do some sightseeing. For being the 4th biggest city in the US, the streets weren't as crowded as I thought they'd be (a lot of people drive places here I was told), I got to walk around in downtown and also take the metro to the museum district and visit the Museum of Natural Science, which was very nice. Anyway, I am going back home tomorrow, which is OK because I think I am done here. The city is nice, but I must say, there's a weird urine and sewer like smell in the air in downtown at parts, and some parts were quite dirty...

I love traveling, yet I realized that traveling alone is not as fun as traveling with someone. When you're going places like the museums, etc. it doesn't matter if you're alone (and maybe it's even better because you can do whatever you want w/o worrying about what someone else wants...I also love to walk places whenever I am at a new place (I actually love to walk wherever I am), so I don't have to worry about people complaining they're tired if I'm alone), but here I am at 8:30 pm stuck in my hotel room, getting bored (I have my reservations about going out alone after dark in a city I'm not that familiar with), and there's not much to do except watch TV , which I am not a big fan of (don't ask me why...I have no explanation, I just feel like I should be doing something else whenever I sit in front of the TV for more than 45 minutes. And I hate watching movies with commercials every 10 minutes). If there was someone with me I could still be out, maybe.

I've been so busy preparing for this conference, doing research, working crazy hours, (and spending time with my boyfriend hee hee) etc. that I haven't had time to blog. I think I may resume posting now.

And along the lines of what I was blogging about before I disappeared, when I was traveling down here, I had a connecting flight in Atlanta, and both in Atlanta and Houston airports, I heard them announcing the chapel was open for worship 24 hours a day. Don't know if that's something new or if it's common practice, and I have no problem with the chapel itself existing, but the announcement every few minutes was weird. Anyway, so now you know, if you get a sudden urge to engage in worship activity in between flights, and can't do it from where you're sitting, and desperately need a chapel, you can go to the chapels in Atlanta and Houston Airports. And I'll know you're not traveling with Delta if you're in the chapel, because with Delta you never know. You have to keep your eyes fixed on the flight schedule in case they cancel your flight after they check you in and decide to put you on an earlier flight, but don't bother to tell you...Yup, happened to me...Thank God I wasn't in the chapel...