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Things are starting to get into a groove...even with things as awkward as they are right now at work. Got a new cellphone number for Dallas but have been having an odd problem. When I try to call it from my hotel, a recording comes on and tells me that I must dial a 1 or 0 because it's a long distance call. The hotel and the zip code of my house where the cellphone is "stationed" are both in the central Dallas zone, so no one from Verizon or Sprint PCS can understand why this is happening. People at the station didn't have the problem. I guess this might just be a rare instance. I would hate to change the number since it's soo easy to remember...repetition of numbers and such.

Darrell was invited to a listener's house tonight for dinner. She also invited anyone else on the show to come. Thankfully, I will have taken my 100 pills for today before we have to be there at 8pm, but I may be late for my concentrate I'm supposed to take 3 hours after my last batch of pills. I'm not too worried because I'm actually doing a very precautionary second dosing today and tomorrow. Hopefully I'll work something out.

I'm glad to have internet access in the hotel, but I'm hating that I can't seem to get a better connection than 28.8. Ugh.

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Ahhhh...I was reminded of one of the things I hate about my job. Getting guest can be such a bitch. This is especially so when you are using a group/organization to supply you with one. At one time today, I had 3 colleges and 2 organizations working on guests for Monday. It's not like they only had today, I contacted both Vandy and St. John's yesterday about this. The worst part is that 3 of the above never called me back to let me know that they couldn't find someone. It was when I checked at 4:30pm their time that I got the lovely after hours voicemail that I get to find these things out...a far more common occurrence than anyone should bear. So, at 4pm Central, I've got myself in a fury trying to find two guests for Monday morning before it got to late to get anyone.

I'm about 2 hours away from eating at a complete stranger's house. D went on the air the other morning asking if there were listeners that would be willing to show him around town or cook a meal for him. Tonight we are going to Kelly's house. She called the other morning and after talking to D on the air, said that she enjoyed the conversation and would like to talk to him more...would he and the staff of the show like to come to her house for some spaghetti. :)

Thing's I've Learned about Dallas (both the place and the people) Pt. 1

1. If you want any sort of adult entertainment, there is a 15 mile road called Harry Hines Blvd. that has it all.

2. Dallas has the nicest drivers I've ever encountered. They use their turn signals, let you in if you need to, and if you let them in...they wave "thanks" to you (I have yet to be denied a wave in the past week). Drivers don't stay in the left lane if you are going faster. Usually only 1 or 2 cars go thru lights that have turned red (hey, for a city this size, this is astonishing). People don't block intersections. I was on a road the other day when I heard a siren behind me. Suddenly, the afternoon jammed traffic separated to the shoulder of the road like Moses had raised his staff. Noone tried to follow the ambulance's wake thru the cleared cars.

3. Say "hi" and people will stop and have a conversation with you 1/3 of the time.

4. No one in Dallas refers to highways and interstates by numbers. I-35E is called Stemmons Freeway from downtown going north, I-30 is called the Dallas-Ft. Worth Turnpike between the two cities and called Thornton Freeway going east out of town.

5. Name a food item...any food item. You can find someplace that offers it fried. I've witnessed these items fried (just in my first week, too): cheesecake, Snickers, fruit, rattlesnake, and whole turkeys.

6. You can't travel 2 blocks w/o seeing a Mexican restaurant. There are many, many places that I've seen 3 and 4 Mexican restaurants and taquerias next door to each other.

7. There are, at least, 6 grocery store chains in Dallas: Albertsons, Tom Thumb, Simon David, Kroger, Carnival, and Minyard are the ones I've seen so far. The problem...you can drive 5 miles and only see one.