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April 11, 2007 by disenchanted

Well, I don’t really have a choice. We are past the window of opportunity to cancel our hotel room, so we’d be paying $401 no matter what. Go fuckin’ figure.

Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate | Tagged Conferences, Sick, Travel | 5 Comments

5 Responses

on April 11, 2007 at 11:13 am | Reply Cynical Queer

If it was a place you’ve stayed at previously and had plans to return to in the future I’d have called them and noted that you’re a previous customer, have intention to visit in the future, and that could change if they didn’t let this one go.

Stuff happens and you shouldn’t be penalized because you become ill. Reasonable property managers would realize it perhaps better to let you go than for you to come to their hotel as the carrier monkey and end up with the property in quarantine.
on April 11, 2007 at 11:30 am | Reply disenchanted

I’ve had problems with this particular conference in the past … with hotels, with the conference itself, etc. I keep saying that I am going to stop going to this one, but I need all the lines I can get on my CV. Damn, but I can’t wait for tenure.

I will survive. I’ve stopped puking (good) and my fever is gone (good). Right now, I am suffering from the world’s worse backache. I must have pulled every muscle from my hips to my shoulders while I was puking. Maybe the heated leather seats will help loosen that up — we do have a two hour drive to the train station.

I can’t believe this is happening to me. My stupid freakin’ mother in law. GRRRR.
on April 11, 2007 at 11:54 am | Reply koko

good luck…i hope you don’t die
on April 11, 2007 at 12:57 pm | Reply Cynical Queer

Gee, you musta purchased the $30,000 Sally.

And koko… WOW!
on April 11, 2007 at 6:01 pm | Reply That Queer Expatriate

By the time you read this, you’ll already big in the Windy City — I hope the conference goes well. At least you have Coach to help take care of you.