Quebec City Probably Rocks. Not that I would know.

Here I am in Quebec City. I’m in a freaking gorgeous hotel room with a 7th-floor view of Old Quebec, the river, everything past the refineries up to the hills. Beautiful. I was feeling a little disappointed that my honey’s commitments were keeping her from coming here (which was the original plan), until now.

Because I’m nasty sick. Sore throat, can’t talk, can’t sleep, can’t breathe half the time; I’m a fountain of phlegm. It’s comforting that I don’t have to inflict that on anyone else.

I went to the conference opening reception, on the 23rd floor of the Hilton. It made me want to be healthy enough to ditch the conference and go walk around the city, especially the old walls and what looks like a fort. But I feel lousy. What I really want is to ditch the conference and huddle in my luxurious bathtub, running bath after bath of newly-hot water.

In other news, some of you may have heard that Sheryl Crow and her buddy Laurie David decided to make a scene with Karl Rove at a press dinner the other night. And she has proposed a toilet paper usage ban, to save the environment. Well, a writer for The Washington Times said everything what I was going to say, better than I would have said it. Leaving out his ad hominem meanness:

A little learning is a dangerous thing, as Alexander Pope reminded us, but he didn’t consider the half of it. Ignorance combined with a little talent can be lethal… she travels the country in “three tractor trailers, four buses and six cars” to spread her message of frugality (for others). Her typical concert contract includes binding instructions that she must have in her dressing room 12 bottles of Grolsch beer, six bottles of “local” beer, eight bottles of Snapple (various flavors), four bottles of ginger ale, a pint of soy milk, bottles (one each) of “good” Australian cabernet, a merlot, bourbon, gin and brandy, and “unchilled” mineral water (”not Evian”), and lots of chips and dips.

I could use some unchilled mineral water, right about now. Ugh. Stupid viruses.

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