“Ok, close your eyes, hold still, and try not to breathe too much.” This was the direction given to me by the twenty-something lady doing my hair and makeup. The process that succeeded that directive was airbrushing. To me, airbrushing is something you do via Photoshop, after the photos are taken. Apparently makeup artists are getting […]
After three days of meetings, 1:1’s, whiteboarding, catching up with my mentor, and amazing team lunches and dinners, I was on my own, for a day, in Beijing. My hotel was in the “Silicon Valley” district of Beijing, in and of that the area is populated with many of the tech offices; Microsoft has two […]
Nothing beats accidentally eating a nut (for a nut-allergy person) to give an exciting kick to a vacation. I write this at 35 thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean, where blue and clouds stretch as far as the eye can see, warily sipping my coffee and hoping the remediation I put into place for said […]
If you’re going to be stuck in an airport longer than you expected, Beijing Terminal 3 isn’t all that bad. I arrived 3 hours early courtesy of my reliance on the calendar set by corporate travel booking. It turns out when you have a 4pm flight, your corporate travel team books a calendar for 1pm, […]
One of the advantages to having chronic insomnia is that when you travel halfway around the world and you wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning, it (in itself) is not a foreign thing. It also means you get through jet lag a lot faster, because you’re used to sporadic sleep. I am […]
Bobbie Conti 