I was so excited for my first real business trip away. I have always been jealous of those corporate types who get sent to exotic destinations and put up in fancy hotels. They go to a few meetings have a few drinks and come home loaded with free pens and bags and mugs. i want my chance at this lifestyle, I too want to collect the garbage thrown at you by the commercial world, I want to schmooze with people and stay in a hotel where someone else picks up my stuff for a change. I guess my karma just does not support this type of an adventure. I am staying in the very exotic Ashland Oregon a metropolis a mere 15 miles from the California border (read, I didn't even make it out of state) I am in the posh residence halls of Southern Oregon university where I share a restroom with all the other women on this floor. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth I set about setting up camp and making the best with a week away from the kids and household drudgery. Into the showers I skip to take a long hot shower.... not so much
The shower room consists of 4 stalls each with a precariously draped curtain. The first two don't seem to have hot water on demand, its more of a guessing game there. The second two are definitely the showers of choice. The last of which is the best of all as it is the handicap stall. I say handicap stall laughingly, because there is no elevator and after hefting my suitcase and other crap up three flights of stairs I can tell you that anyone in need of a handicap stall in the shower room is still down on the first floor waiting for a lift up. That being said, there is significantly more room in this stall and you are allowed a foot or two of room to move about and perform your duties. The one downside I see here is the window. Now I am a teacher not an architect and thus I cannot claim to be privy to the codes and regulations one must accommodate when building a structure such as a dormitory, but I am guessing the placement of a window directly below my "girls" is not required. I enjoyed my warm roomy shower immensely unit I noticed that I was offering up a fantastic view of Northern Oregon Ta Ta's to any lucky passerby. Quite frankly I doubt this view was greeted with any enthusiasm below either as I compare more accurately to the women of National Geographic than those of Playboy, however...no need to spoil the mystery.

And so I go to bed tonight in a quandary. What does tomorrow hold in store for me...More gratuitous boob shots from the 3rd floor or perhaps I will finally land that perfect moment of schmooze and pamper that I dream every business trip is made of....