Well, I found out today that one of the guys who was supposed to be leaving for Australia today ran into snags getting his visa, and needed a quick replacement. The environment lead (my group) came over to my cube today and asked whether I could leave… um… Thursday.

Of course, I needed to call my boss first and ask her. Sarah said that her concern was that I needed to be in Ft. Wayne for her sister’s wedding the weekend of September 3. I told that I would see what I could do, and began working on booking my flight. I got a flight that leaves Canberra, Australia, and gets to Ft. Wayne via Sydney, San Francisco, and Chicago. I’m not looking forward to that series of flights, I’ll tell you what.

Being as all the travel stuff through work is supposed to be done 30 days ahead of time, I’m running around trying to get all that stuff done in 2 days. The cool part is that I get a new pair of workbooks out of this deal, as they’re required at the site.

EDIT: Workboots… I’m getting workboots. Smartass.