And the winner is... not me! Yay!

In keeping with the theme that it is a crazy world... I am no longer going to Philadelphia next week. Whew.

My company had assigned me to a project for which there was a 2 day training in Philadelphia. Along with a day of travel all the way out there, that would have meant me being gone for 3 full, long days. I was having major anxiety about this -- the prospect of me leaving Il Tonino for that long, for the first time ever, did not fill me with thoughts of sunshine and flowers.

(I was also having anxiety about the food over there. During the training, breakfast, lunch, and dinner were to be provided, thus eliminating my ability to seek out a vegetarian or at least semi-vegetarian restaurant or natural foods store and fill up on good, healthy food. Visions of cereal with the rice milk that I brought with me, bread-and-lettuce sandwiches, baked potatoes with ketchup, and many, many energy bars packed in my suitcase does not make for a very appetizing 3 days.)

I'm off the project, not because they couldn't find an interpreter, but because they finally realized something that I noticed a few days ago -- they have 3 west coast monitors for 9 sites on the west coast. Typically one monitor will handle 9 sites! So that wasn't looking good and I wasn't sure how that was going to work out. They finally noticed that issue and decided to let me go. I am more than happy about that.

So now we'll wait and see what they find for me next and hope it is a much better fit. (And I'm hoping it is not cardiology, I much prefer working on infectious diseases!)