timothy j. lambert

I'm in the lobby of the Bourbon Orleans hotel. New Orleans is as wonderful as ever, but the hotel experience has already been freakin' annoying. What's the point in making a reservation, requesting specific rooms on the smoking floor, when upon arrival you learn that you can't have the rooms you asked for and that the hotel has suddenly gone non-smoking? If the point is to annoy your weary hotel guests, then they succeeded. There are other things that have annoyed me about this place, but three different hotel employees are currently lurking behind me. I'd much rather think about the master class I just left anyway, which was hosted by the lovely Stephen McCauley. He talked about creating engaging characters. Which was ironic, because he's an engaging character himself.

Speaking of characters, I wonder where Mark G. Harris is? Guess I'll go find out.