I was wrapping everything up at the office, getting things in line for my trip to Bozeman, MT next week when I suddenly realized: I don’t have my itinerary yet. Uh oh.

I submitted my travel request more than a month ago and I should have received the info back by now, so I don’t know if they booked my travel or not. Considering that I found out today that they “forgot” to process my per diem request (which means I’ll be living out of pocket in Big Sky country), I’m guessing my travel request got waylaid somewhere along the way. What should have been a $600 plane ticket is going to turn into two or three thousand dollars.

I’m glad I’m not paying for it. But then if I were paying for it, I wouldn’t be going to Bozeman in the first place. Cancun, sure. Bozeman? Pass.