Dad's Advice

(Written a few weeks ago)
As conicidence would have it, I have ended up working in the same field as my father. I was on the phone with him a few days before I left for Houston and he offered me one piece of advice. He said, “Fight the temptation to get done with work, and then go back to the hotel, order food, and fall asleep watching TV. You are getting to travel on someone else’s dime. Don’t waste it.”

Well, I love to travel. I always have and it’s one of the reasons I took the job. So I thanked him for his advice and brushed it off as only useful for people with the unfortunate condition of being much more boring than I.

And yet today I find my super-interesting self in my hotel room, sitting on my bed, watching TV with a bag of fast food, and feeling very sleepy… … … for the fourth night in a row. I’m so annoyed with myself. Its a much easier temptation to give in to than I had imagined.