The trip has been approved. I will be going back to Shanghai (and the surrounding areas) for three weeks starting three weeks from now. The good part is, now that I am a Preferred Flyer on United, I qualify for better seats. Yay!
The bad part is, this time I'm going by myself. Boo! It's actually physically exhausting to have to be "on" all of the time for training and auditing suppliers. It makes me want to crawl into a hole and not talk to anyone for a week after I get back. Luckily, I get back right before Thanksgiving, so I should have some time off to veg out and be snarky if I feel like it.
Not that I would ever feel like being snarky. ;)