Georgia Peaches

First blog entry!  Welcome!  Some introductions... my name is Ellen, I am a student at Ohio State (THE Ohio State University, as I am constantly reminded by everyone that has no ties to the school).  Yes, for all of you doubters, we really do live and breathe football.  I'm an engineering student, but that is perhaps soon to change.  I have an awesome job at school where I basically get paid to play Solitaire, but it is currently summer and I am still at the Internship.

The Internship is going swimmingly.  I get to do a lot of traveling.  I just returned from Georgia last night.  I had never been there before - I was sort of expecting to walk through a grove of peach trees to get wherever I wanted to go.  ALAS, they only build manufacturing plants in podunk towns with no peaches.

The airport was fun.  It was the smallest one I have ever been to... they have one gate, and Delta is the only airline that flies there (woo).  There are three flights in and three flights out (only to and from Atlanta) every day, at exactly the same time every day, and I hear that it is not at all strange for at least one of them to be cancelled.  AWESOME.  So, one gate, one airline, FOUR rental car companies.  Are you joking me?  I just could not deal with that many choices.  I took a taxi.  (That's a different story)

The best part of my job is traveling on someone else's dime.  My corporate card is my key to taking over the world.  However, I have only been on one power trip so far.  I went nuts and ordered a GPS system for a rental car in a city that I had never been to before.  I had always heard that GPS systems were amazing, but I have to tell you... I was NOT impressed.  My first day driving out to our plant in Podunk, Pennsylvania, the GPS got me lost.  Not even like it could have been my fault and I'm just looking for someone else to blame.  No, it had me going the wrong way out of the town I was staying in.  Great.  I was just driving along, happy as a clam (Well, as happy as I could be at 6:15 in the morning) and I hear "DING!  Recalculating!...At your earliest convenience, make a U-turn!"  What?!  How is that even possible?