Week 5

Touring across the country is a roller coaster of experiences as you drive the fine line between heaven and hell:

Heaven is a capable local crew who calls out line weights in some kind of glorious yet familiar herald, hell is a 90 pound girl and a tech director with some kind of growth that is preventing him from lifting anything.

Heaven is hot tub, cocktails, and pizza under the stars, hell is the frozen outdoor pool in a motel named after mythological English heros.

Heaven is 2$ Microbrews in Billings, Montana, hell is being stuck for 4 hours because the woman who moved the trailer so it wouldn't be towed also knocked a hole in it by driving under an overhang.

Heaven is local hangouts, BBQ's in Portland, and free lunches, hell is the Dude Rancher Lodge....which is exactly what it sounds like.

Heaven is sleep number matresses and pillows with varying firmness, hell is messy bathrooms, scratchy sheets, a fire alarm that beeps for 6 hours and a group of people and their prostitutes hanging out outside your door at 4 am so that instead of sleeping you end up watching Donnie Darko on MTV during the wee hours*

And at the end of the day, your worst day doing what you love is still better than your worst day doing what you don't. So make your peace with it!

"All Deaf people must wear mittens."~ML on sensitivity in the workplace.

*Disclaimer: Donnie Darko is still an awesome movie, though.