Last night I was tooling through old posts. I found one that I never published from when I was in Philly for the site inspection in December. Tonight I leave for the City of Union Fun Brotherly Love. Time really is flyin these days.
Anyway, it’s my first onsite of the year…well, for my standard clients. Sadly one of my shows this spring was cancelled due to that ponzi scheme. It’s always hard getting back into the swing of things. Not to mention that apparently at some point the client was promised something called “continuous web registration” but there was a discconect with programming, so reg closed yesterday. Sadly the originally reg coordinator is no longer with us due to downsizing, so there was a lot of searching through old e-mails to figure out what was going on.
Now, considering all that’s going on in the world, it’s really not THAT big of a deal. But it’s just one more fun hurdle to conquor. Luckily I set days like this aside for the eminent choas that occurs when people remember the 7200 things they forgot to do over the course of the last few weeks. Product of being human and all.
Meanwhile, I have to admit that I’m nervous about this onsite. Not just b/c I have been dormant for a whopping 2 weeks either. I tend to watch a lot of news as it pertains to scares of any sort. What can I say, I’m a drama queen and the news media certainly helps me fulfill that quotent. Normally I’m not really all that concerned about whatever catastrophe of the week they are reporting on, but I cannot lie, this swine flu thing has gotten to me.
I was in Texas when I first really heard about it, and when they started reported about it coming over the boarder from Mexico. I need not remind you of the proximity of Mexico to Texas. On my return trip there were people in masks in the airport…a little too close for comfort.
And now? Well, now it’s spread through out fine country. New York has the largest outbreak in the US, which let’s face it is not surprising concidering that mass amounts of people that come through that state/city on an hourly basis.
Tuesday morning I will be faced with 1400 registered attendees from all over the country. Attendees who are executives that travel all over the world themselves. I’ve taken to washing my hands and carrying my Purell, but none the less, I have an uneasy feeling. Perhap b/c it is basically a convulted flu and not SARS or the Bird Flu or something.
I suppose the fact that I’m a rather healthy individual should calm my nerves, knowing that while the flu would suck beyond all suckiness, I’d be ok. And if not ok, I live in a major city with some good hospitals. And beyond that, I have a friend whose husband does medical research, so I’m pretty well connected 
Perhaps what really got me though, was the mass industry e-mails that came through on Monday about the effects of this on my industry, or the fact that by Monday night my company had created literature on how to deal with the swine flu as it pertians to events, planning and the like…literature that I have printed out in my binder.
It’s uneasy I suppose. In reality I’m sure I’ll be fine, but in truth I’m nervous. And Lord help any single person, VIP attendee or not, who has the sniffles and comes around me. I may just have to sic the union on them.
Now, off to cross the border…err, uhh, Mason Dixon line.
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