Pariveda sent me to Dallas for a week for work. As someone who still considers herself a newlywed, normally I wouldn't be too excited to spend a week apart from my husband, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by how much fun I was able to have even though David and I were apart. The best part about traveling is that it gives me the opportunity to see old friends from college for free! (You know, the friends you love but you just don’t get to see because you live too far apart.) Most of my week was spent hanging out with a coworker who was ramping me up on the project at the client site so that he could roll off the project and try something new. We got along super well and had a lot of fun, but it wasn’t until I was hanging out with an old friend from college, Greta, that I realized that he didn’t really ask me questions. Mostly I would ask him questions and then we could talk for a while, but if I wanted to say something, I just had to say it. Greta asked me a few quest...