I just got orders to go to Russia again. It'll be a week in Moscow, a business trip but this time the local office has me queued up for a few interviews with the Russian tech press. It's exciting but a little strange... I'm used to being one of the hounds, not the fox. I need to prep myself by smoking and drinking too much. I'll never survive otherwise.
I love that awareness you get just before a trip, where you don't know whether the end result is going to be applause or ashes... that same distance-from-self you get just before a flight, before a first date. That sense of the unfamiliar. I like this a lot.
Posted by case at November 3, 2005 10:45 PM