business trip awkwardness

two awkward moments from my most recent business trip to pittsburgh-- 1. my case manager forgot to tell me (but not the other person on the case) that we were staying for 2 nights instead of only 1 like usual. this isn't a problem except for the fact that i did not pack enough clothes for 3 days. i had on what i was wearing and one additional outfit. so today, the third day, i rewore the pants that i have now worn for three days straight. (at least they're dark gray and not really noticeable) i also rewore a sweater, but without the collared shirt underneath it that i wore the first day. sweet...they must think my wardrobe is very limited. i kept hoping i would have a chance to go out and buy a shirt or something, but no such luck. 2. we went to dinner last night with our client. and the client was going to pick a wine for dinner, but then she handed me the wine list and told me to pick a wine for the table. now, i know a *little* about wine, but not a lot. so faced with the 7 page wine list, i was a little lost. i ended up picking a cabernet, but no one said, "this wine is good." no one even commented on it at all...so i don't think i did a great job. great idea to let the 22 year old pick the wine when everyone else is at least 10 years older than me or more. i think i need to brush up on my wine knowledge for the next client dinner.

Networking

So I was invited to this small group Christmas party by an old friend from school and somehow we got on the conversation of what type of criminal would we want to be. Everyone was kind of silent at first and then a couple of people chose to be a bank robber to have a lot of money....I naturally chose espionage and inquired about what a bounty hunter is. The people kind of looked at me funny, I'm not sure why but whatever. Then we got on the conversation of what occupation we would chose if we had no boundaries and I chose secret agent work. I was really into it and talking about how cool it would be to perform martial arts and investigate, but the down side would be killing people, since that's wrong and I could never do that and then they were all kinda of looking at me...like who is this person? I suppose espionage and talking of its activities isn't really the best first impression.