gettin' out!

One of the benefits of having been able to mainly operate my business from home is that I don't have to leave often!

Of course, that is one of the drawbacks as well.

There is something always exciting to me, as I don't do it often, in going into the city. Mind you, I am not a city girl by any stretch of the imagination. I do well in big cities for a short time, then sensory overload hits and it is time for me to go back to my little enclave.

Then, for work, of course, you actually have to get dressed...

not that I work in the nude. I don't advertise myself on that Craig's list... jajaja

But I certainly don't have to dress up. A little makeup, and voila, jeans and a nice shirt or sweater can be acceptable.

Today I get to hop the metro and head downtown. I would drive if: 1. I knew my way around downtown, which I do not; and 2. if west-bound traffic out of the City wasn't HOV-2 starting at 3 on the only freeway out...I would undoubtedly be ticketed for being a single driver, and am not in the mood for that right now.

I don't mind taking Metro in. I like to watch people, and yet not have to deal with them. So I just plug myself into my iPod like everyone else does and watch the cars sit in traffic going into or leaving the City.

I used to take the trains all the time in Japan, when I would travel to the City and not have to stray too far from the station (unless going into Tokyo, when I could easily just hop the Yamamoto line to get pretty much anywhere I wanted in that city)...if I had to go off the beaten train track, however, or go in to go dancing and return too late / early in the morning, I would just drive.

So I'm looking forward, not only to the trip in but also to seeing my ex-student who initially contacted me with this contract and who had the confidence in my abilities to be able to pull off a job well done for their company.

Hope my voice holds out...I felt the laryngitis coming on last night after not having been good to my voicebox earlier this week, so I have hardly spoken this morning, done the salt-water gargle and actually had an ice pack over my throat last night before sleeping to try to keep the voice intact. I can lose my voice today after talking for the 3 hours it will probably take to do this dub. But not beforehand.