Archive for September 12th, 2008

Welcome to the Good Life vs. Welcome to the Real World

Friday, September 12th, 2008

The cab was floating at around 80mph at the ripe hour of 3:30am, as any good Philly cabbie would be on I-95 towards the airport. It was time. The real world was beginning after 3 months and 17 days of unpaid, unadulterated summer. I was en-route to Orlando for 2 weeks of training, before I’d spent anytime in my base Philadelphia office. Admittedly I was feeling a bit nauseous; perhaps it was the nerves finally striking as I metaphorically drove into my future; more likely though is that it was those hot dogs I’d been grilling up until about 12:30am the night before, struggling to live out the last crucial hours of freedom before I suited up. (more…)