Annie Mae NYC

Welcome to Atlanta, Where the Players Play

I'm in ATL, sitting in my hotel room on the 36th floor, looking out of my floor-to-ceiling windows at a view of the capital and A LOT of parking garages. Oh, there's also a crane in my view, which the bellman told me, I "shouldn't be afraid of." I'm glad he warned me, cuz I'm usually terrified of cranes... what?

Atlanta is an interesting city. It feels like it could have been a really cool place in 1986. In all fairness though, I am Downtown, near the Georgia World Congress Center and it's all hotels and restaurants for us tradeshow freaks.

So far I've had a good time. I went to a concert on Thursday night. I saw The Chris McCarty Band from Gainesville, FL at the Velvet Underground. Today I opened the show with the team, then peaced-out around 12pm and went to the Georgia Aquarium, had a picnic in Centennial Olympic Park and then walked around Downtown for a couple hours. In about 10 minutes I'm going to go shopping and then to dinner with the client. But at 8pm tonight it's all about the Ducks!

For those of you who don't know, my work-travel schedule is like this...

I always arrive a day earlier than the rest of the crew (crew = Amex rep and sales team). I make sure all the collateral arrives; I supervise the booth labor and then hang out until the rest of the crew show up the next night. After I open the show, I hang out until the last day, then I make sure the booth has been broken down and shipped to our next show, and then I fly back to NYC.

Supervising labor is always the most ridiculous part. It usually consists of several Union guys chatting my ear off, trying to figure out a why a girl from Oregon is telling them what to do and when I'm not flattered by their "charm" they end-up making some bold statement like, "You don't trust anyone do you?" And it always blows their mind that I was born in Oregon, and now live in NYC... they honestly can't wrap their heads around that.

There have been a couple things here that I can't quite wrap my head around. One being the image below that I keep seeing at the Convention... Apparently it is the symbol for "Elevator"... not "Three-some"... who knew?!


The other was a taxi I saw last night. It was a two-toned Ford escape... it was white and teal - You all know how I feel about teal, anyway, it had 20" spinners on it... um, what?

Ok, I have 10 minutes til go-time... OH, I saw a Beluga whale today and have had Raffi's "Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea" in my head ever since. Pretty solid tune to sing walkin down the street when you're almost 27.

posted by Annie Mae @ 4:28 PM