Vacation is always a good thing

Remember that slogan: See the USA in your Chevrolet....I'm thinking that maybe thats the way to go...We left the apartment at 6 pm in order to do due diligence, etc. etc. and our plane took off at midnight. No 12:30. Actually everybody on the flight thought it was going to be cancelled because the poor woman at the gate had the unenviable job of saying. I am so sorry but the plane is caught in traffic crossing the airport runways...Now, how lame is that. For 3 hours.

But our trip wasn't on a chevrolet but in business class which is always pretty swell. And now they have barka loungers in the sky which meant that I could actually get my feet up and sleep. Of course I can sleep almost anywhere but I remember all too clearly a really long flight where I felt like the poor security guard in a bank who has to sleep sitting up in a chair. Of course Arnie alleges that he didn't sleep but I think I heard him get off some zzz.

We flew into Charles deGaulle /airport which could really double as a set for blade runner. It is enormous and confusing but I was happy to be able to pick up a sandwich and start speaking french which has really improved since this crazy wonderful course I started taking this fall on comic books and now detective stories with the requisite conversation...

Originally i thought we might have time to go into Paris before our connecting flight that afternoon to Copenhagen but a 3 1/2 hour delay out of JFK put finish to that idea. We had a quick flight to Copenhagen and quick taxi ride to our hotel which Arnie initially hated, but I think he learned to like a lot because the owner is really the poster child for hospitality. It's one of those unprepossessing looking hotels with lots of blond wood and a feeling or organic everything...I liked it and we had a great view from our teeny tiny balcony. I had never been to any Scandinavian country before and found Denmark to be very relaxed. Maybe even just a little dull with beautiful blonde children looking out at the world curiously from their perches in bicycle baskets of varying sizes...We walked a lot and enjoyed the Danish people, had several excellent meals, bought little, saw several castles which i thought were second rate, experienced a changing of the guard at one, strolled through a cheerfully crowded and chilly Tivoli which was well known to me because of my parents interest in Copenhagen, and also went to a wonderful museum out of town called the Louisanne. I 'm sure I've spelled that incorrectly. I would say the weather word for Copenhagen was crispy. I wore gloves.

But Paris was glorious and warm.....And so francais, francais thank god.

Apologies

Apparently I have cranky and demanding readers who are insisting on more....so I am graciously acceding to these pleas.

It's been a little turbulent around these parts. I left the Museum at the end of March and frankly it was time for me to go. I had nothing to do and I was bored. I started my so called consulting thinking naively that I would actually have something to do or could bring value to the equation...Not to be so  I was lucky to have 6 months to get used to leaving a place that I had called home for 12 years. I watched the amazing trees outside my window go from full bloom to winter to full bloom again. Ok, slopping sentimental but I've always had great views...not necessarily great offices but great views to muse my time away watching.

So now I am the new kid on the block which is the Board of Ed. New people, new locations, new M.O's and just new everything.  Actually I was never entirely confident that this job wold come through and not entirely sure that I even wanted it although I interviewed with people that I liked. And that's one of the rules: Only work with people you like from the outset. But later you may discover that they are crazy and you are screwed. So then you leave.   I had a killer interview for the Board of Ed at the beginning of February and then started the last week of April or so. Amazing to me. I had some great job interviews along the way but this job was interesting to me. And they wanted me.

So I am learning everything I can. After 12 years at one place where you know all the people, all the procedures more or less...you are a known fish in a big pond then moving on can be exhausting. That's the word I have to use. I have no set office and so nobody knows where this team of professionals actually is. Oh, what's my title: I am the publicist for public school District 3 which runs from 59th street to 123 streets on the west Side. What am I doing? Riding the subway comes to mind immediately because I am traveling between 8 schools on the upper west side which is really quite an education to coin a phrase....

ok, more later cause n ow I have to go to school.