Mid-South Trip

Three and a half days: Most of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Five separate states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, then back to Texas

Twenty-five hours and thirty minutes: in the car, with three men that I work with, in uncomfortable seats and uncomfortable silences and no good radio stations

Four crossings of the Mississippi river: beautiful and wander-lust-inspiring every time

Four meetings: unload the car, set up the room, rearrange the room, conduct the meeting, tear down the room, load up the car

Three hotel rooms: bad beds, glaring streetlights, smoking floors, ice machines next door, lumpy pillows, yellow water, missing husband

Two days till the weekend: and a whole week's worth of work to cram into the hours between now and five o' clock tomorrow

Every day this week has felt like a Monday.

Did I mention the hay trailer that caught on fire on the side of the road and stopped traffic for an hour?

I don't want to leave Waco EVER again.

I'm so glad to be home.