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Day Five: Boston – Ogunquit

Posted by elizabeth on September 19th, 2011 under career  •  Comments Off on Day Five: Boston – Ogunquit

Day Five started out with a three-hour city tour using a step-on guide whose accent was so thick *I* could hardly understand her and our Israeli couple barely ever knew what she was saying. Then we turned them loose at Quincy Market for three hours. I again delicately ditched my training companions, found a hamburger, […]

Day Four: Plymouth – Hyannis – Boston

Posted by elizabeth on September 19th, 2011 under career  •  Comments Off on Day Four: Plymouth – Hyannis – Boston

(I’m a few days behind writing this due to lack of time and spotty wifi access, and even though it is currently Day Six, I had to look at my itinerary to remember what Day Four was about. There is definitely an “If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium” thing happening, although I have already […]

Day Three: Plymouth

Posted by elizabeth on September 16th, 2011 under career  •  Comments Off on Day Three: Plymouth

It’s about 9:30, and I will be lights out by 10. I am tiiiired. Today was entirely in Plymouth, which is delightful and charming. Our first stop was the Plimoth Plantation, which contains a completely authentic recreation of the Pilgrim settlement, from the construction of the houses to the  reenactors who are absolutely 100% in […]

Day Two: New York City to Plymouth

Posted by elizabeth on September 15th, 2011 under career  •  Comments Off on Day Two: New York City to Plymouth

It’s the second day of the tour, the first day on the road. We met in the lobby of the hotel in NYC at 6:30 this morning (which seems like days ago) and got the bags on the bus, a seemingly inane thing but kind of a huge part of our job. The worst thing […]

Day One: New York City

Posted by elizabeth on September 14th, 2011 under career  •  Comments Off on Day One: New York City

I mean, I have stopped and started this thing so often that I can’t really promise anything.  But my first sort-of tour starts today (sort-of = training, so I’m not conducting the tour), and from what I understand I will have a little bit of time each evening, so we’ll see how it goes. So, […]

the list.

Posted by elizabeth on November 2nd, 2010 under career  •  Comments Off on the list.

I have approximately 1.1 million things to do to get going. The top ten: 1. File for a business license. 2. File an assumed name certificate (DBA). 3. Open a business checking account. 3a. Get a basic bookkeeping ledger book. (I am going pencil-and-paper at first. I’ve looked at Quicken, and it is WAY too […]

talk about a fresh start.

Posted by elizabeth on October 27th, 2010 under career  •  2 Comments

I’d been thinking about this for quite a while, actually. It started as a throwaway, half-joking comment during a conversation with my parents, but the seed took hold. I pondered it for a few weeks, and then, about halfway through the course, when we were sending our resume information off to be formatted, I had […]

class #263.

Posted by elizabeth on October 22nd, 2010 under career  •  2 Comments

Meetings in England start with apologies, and so shall this entry. I wanted to update so much more than this, but I vastly overestimated the amount of time I would have where I am (1) not on a train and (2) not in class. At the end of the day, by the time both of […]

relief.

Posted by elizabeth on October 14th, 2010 under career  •  3 Comments

I think, maybe, I was more nervous than I thought I was. I went into this class confident that I was doing the right thing, following the right path, but I suppose there is no way to be 100% confident about anything. And it wasn’t until I was in the class on the first day, […]

tomorrow.

Posted by elizabeth on October 11th, 2010 under career  •  3 Comments

I sort of love the fact that tomorrow, my first day of class, October 11th, is also the first day I spent in Paris one year ago. Although I am happy with the journal I kept of that trip, I’ll never be able to really find the words to describe what that experience meant to […]