Connie Willis's Blackout

Howard Kurtz is reading Connie Willis's Blackout, a time travel story about historians going back to various locations and observing things. He says he loves it because the characters are motivated in ways that are completely foreign to him. And I keep listening and thinking, you know what, I just don't want to be in 1944 anymore. My motivation would be catch the nearest time bus back to the future and go be a fry chef.