Waking Up and Seeing Strange Ceilings

My current strange bed at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.
No, I do not sleep with my accordion.

So far, 2011 has been a roving year for me, what with me spending half my days in beds that aren’t my own (it’s like Crazy Go Nuts University all over again!). Not all of these strange beds have involved travel, as the schedule below shows:

• January 2011
  • One week in St. Joseph’s Health Centre, in three different beds (the whole story is covered in My Hospital Week):
    • One night in the ER
    • Four nights in the ICU
    • One night in a regular hospital room
  • One week at Mom’s, recuperating
• February 2011
  • 11 days at the Crown Plaza in Seattle for Microsoft’s internal employees-only TechReady conference
  • 5 days at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue for Microsoft’s Global MVP Summit
• March 2011 (planned)
  • One week at the Fairfield Inn North in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive
• April 2011 (planned)
  • One week at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the MIX11 conference
• May 2011 (planned)
  • One week at the Fairmont Waterfront in Vancouver for Make Web Not War
• June 2011 and beyond
  • Portlandia?
  • New York City?
  • Baltimore?
  • San Francisco?
  • Manila?
  • Burning Man?

I’m enjoying the roving life thus far, but it means that my apartment – which already looks a little different owing to major changes in the domestic situation – is a place just as strange to me as the places where I’m crashing. That’s okay by me, though; I love travel and this is the sort of shake-up that’s called for at the moment.