{"id":117,"date":"2005-01-22T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T03:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=117"},"modified":"2005-01-22T22:52:05","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T03:52:05","slug":"i-cant-help-it-if-im-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/i-cant-help-it-if-im-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can't Help It If I'm Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. This travel day has been odd and more than a little nerve-wracking, with a surprise ending. Snow threatened to cancel the travel–a flight out of Dulles at 4:45 p.m. just when the snow was predicted to be coming down at 2 inches per hour–but suddenly the snow stopped, visibility improved pretty dramatically, and the flight left and arrived on time.<\/p>\n

Then the cab driver took me to the wrong Holiday Inn in the French Quarter. Fully luggage laden, I walked four blocks, one of them across Bourbon St., to get to the right Holiday Inn, the “Chateau Le Moyne.” There I learned that they had run out of rooms, so they had to upgrade me to a suite. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I figured it would be a double room with some nice furnishings. It’s not. It’s a suite. The ceilings are at least ten or eleven feet high. There’s a huge sitting room, a huge bedroom, a little pre-bath closet area, and an undistinguished bathroom. The bathroom is a relief, actually, since the rest of the decor, though undeniably sumptuous, makes me feel I’m cheating if I don’t expire of absinthe poisoning on the bed. Were this to occur, I would already be lying in state, I assure you.<\/p>\n

I’m here only one night, then over to the conference hotel, where the accommodations will be dismal after this exotica. That’s eXotica. The other was outside my window shortly after I got here: the Krewe du Vieux, q.v.<\/a> Welcome to the Big Easy.<\/p>\n

How will they keep me on the farm after this?<\/p>\n

EDIT: One small but vital clarification–this suite cost the same as a standard room. The hotel gave it to me as a free “upgrade” because they had run out of other rooms by the time I arrived and checked in. That’s the first time that’s ever happened to me, but apparently it’s not uncommon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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