Vegas

Another transfer job from the good 'ol mySpace page:

1. I may have developed lung cancer in the 3 days that I’ve been here! Apparenlty I am far more in support of laws prohibiting smoking in public places than I thought! The concept of ’smoking sections’ being separated from ’non-smoking sections’ by a two foot wall seems slightly ludicrus to me. So...holla for anti-smoking laws!

2. I should have packed sluttier clothes. While I have never considered myself to be conservative in any meaning of the word, my lack of an article of clothing that can simultaniously boast glitter and sequins seems to place me in that catagory in Vegas.

3. In Vegas, at the MGM Grand the term ’West Wing’ is code for older and smaller.

4. I’m a really loud and indelicate sneezer! There’s nothing like sneezing in the middle of a silent conference to make you realize exactly how loud your sneeze is! For the record, the speaker stopped in the middle of their presentation to bless me...and I was in the 3rd to last row!

5. Nevada’s campaign i nthe early 90’s to make Las Vegas a more family friendly vacation destination (thanks Dave!) was incredibly successful. I never really considered a casino a good place to take your family - but apparenlty I am in the minority. I saw everything from adolescents wandering around on their own to infants in strollers pulled up next to poker tables. Creeps-a-lot.

6. People in Vegas tend to fall into one of two catagories: strikingly beautiful or smelly-because-I-haven’t-left-this-slot-machine-in-over-12-hours icky. This ultimately begs the question of, in the absence of a gray area, into which catagory would I fall?

7. Benefiting directly (and in a pretty expensive way) from profits made from patenting and over-pricing oncologic drugs makes me feel a little bit dirty -- and not in a good way.

8. Oxygen Bars may have successfully supplanted Pet Rocks as the most ingenious marketing of absolutely nothing to complete idiots. (Says the girl standing outside the window with a 40 in a paper bag. Klassy....with a K!)

9. Burlesque shows should make a come back, replace common strip clubs and return sensuality to the United States. Puritanical guilt be gone!!

10. Whoever set the tones of slot machines to resonate as ’happy sounds’ in our heads -- is a GENIOUS! I just kept finding myself be-bopping to the happy chimes of the slot machines as I walked around the casino.