Highly Atypical

This whole "having to leave for the airport at 4AM" thing is really getting old.

Also, I need a travel-type icon. Something with some pithy text about the TSA or something.

I can't believe I leave here tomorrow. Everything is packed except the computer and meds and stuff. The farewell dinner is in about 20 minutes. I am insanely glad to be flying directly into DEN, since flights to Chicago (where about half the class takes connections) are getting cancelled left and right. Reason number 430 I hate United Air Lines: whose brilliant idea was it to put their headquarters that close to the Great Lakes, anyway?

At least they're amusing, in an anthropological kind of way. 176 days and i never have to see them again.

Just as a heads-up: I'm travelling again this weekend (yes, I'm feeling up to it). Prague, this time. Will be back Sunday evening my time. All the Czech I know, I learned from Radek Zelenka, so none of that's gonna be useful, heh. Will be sending TxtLJ updates as warranted, kind of like what I did in Greece.

Oh, how I love unlimited texting.

(P.S. Don't think this gets you out of having to see a "vote for me!" post re: LJ Idol. The due date this time isn't until Monday, so that works out nicely for me.)

today must be my day. Saw the golden compass (movie) advertised (in greek) on a cereal box. Picture didn't take, though. Will try that again later.

OK. News from home. The Rockies are going to the World Series.

The Rockies.

The World Series.

But the Rockies have always sucked. At least, since 1995. They had a couple good years before then, but I was 8.

I'm not a Rockies fan. I don't even like baseball.

The Rockies are going to the World Series.

If I were in the US, I'd be pissed. Lord knows how badly the Avs games are going to get pre-empted for this. Plus I'd be hearing about it from everybody (which I'm fine with now, but after the initial shock wears off, that's another thing). Also, I'll bet you that sometime between now and the day after the end of the Series there'll be a sports riot in Denver. Tear gas and everything. Especially if they win.

The Rockies are going to the World Series.

Seriously, though. Death, taxes, and the Rockies sucking.

Meh. There's always the Nuggets. Broncos too, the way they've been going. And you can't forget the red light district that hangs out behind Jose Theodore.

The Rockies are going to the World Series.

Yes, I'm still wrapping my brain around that. Will be for the rest of the day.



Also, I'm going to Greece starting just over 24 hours from now. Gonna get back around a week from Sunday.

Everything in Strasbourg is going well. Went to Paris last weekend. Very Parisian. Also very large, loud, touristy and kind of smelly. But of the 25 of us, nobody got lost (easily an improvement on my performance last time), injured (except for various blisters and a twisted ankle [also not me, yay!]), or mugged. I wish I could say nobody got robbed, but come ON--30 Euro for a small meal? Highway robbery, I tell you.

Also, it's the World Cup of Rugby going on now, and I had to transfer once at the nearest stop to the stadium. God, that was a mistake. Between the crowds and the drunken Italian fans (I know from the uniforms and the national anthem) and the smell... just... gah. Though I suppose it's a good thing there was so much alcohol around, since that'll kill most of the stuff that'd grow in the other liquids getting left around the station.

Nuss' class is shaping up to be my favorite. He's a total hardass and very meticulous and all, but he's great. The class is great but it's going to kick my ass. (Great. I've discovered my inner academic masochist.)

Anyway, I really just posted to share today's Two Lumps. I'm pissing myself laughing over here, and I've got people staring at me weird. The dangers of the one two-room schoolhouse. (OK, it's four if you count the lounge and the office, but really only the classroom and the computer room count as academic.) Either way, the comic is fucking brilliant, especially for those of us who like cat macros.

OK, so. Yesterday was the first Labor Day in three years I haven't had school. :D

I leave for Strasbourg this evening and will arrive late Wednesday morning (Strasbourg time). Everything but what I'm using between now and then is packed and ready. I just have a couple printouts to make. It's a direct flight from DEN to FRA, so I get to see Chicago from 30,000 feet! Yay not having to go through ORD! I'll post here when I get a chance, but no guarantees as to exactly when.

Does anybody know of TxtLJ works internationally? I'm bringing my cellphone along, even though I have a perfectly good international phone card, because *some people* worry. :p

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ahina_gold and fandangledsky were right: Dermo says "nah, not gonna take anything off just yet unless you're super worried. See you in December."

FYI: I'm going to be leaving for Nashville tomorrow morning and won't be back until Monday. I'm bringing my computer but I'm not sure what exactly there will be in the way of Net access. *shrug*

I need some kind of travel-related icon.

So, Friday before last, I went home for spring break. Fair enough. The plan was to fly Southwest from Louisville (SDF) to Chicago Midway (MDW) and then use my neighbor's buddy passes to fly Frontier home.

...Yeah, that didn't go over very well. SDF-MDW got delayed by an hour and a half and I had to end up buying a ticket on the way back, because my Frontier flight was the last one out that day. And *that* flight was delayed due to the nasty weather that was going on out East. Domino effect and all that. But two and a half hours and $200 later, I made it home. (Chicago hotels are about the same cost, so...)

And then, today. Urrrrgh. Just... urrrrgh. I got SSSS'd at security first time I went through (yes, first.), so even though there was no line at the time (it was 4:40AM), I spent a half hour getting patted down, having my luggage rifled through, etc. etc. (I think the reason I was selected was because my ID expires in a week, and the DMV invalidates IDs once they're renewed. I have a paper ID that's perfectly valid until my new one arrives, but even that combined with my old photo ID wasn't enough.)

Supposed to be the opposite of the plan for getting to Denver from Louisville. Except, there were 6 standby people before me who got on, and a few other standbys who didn't even make it. And it seemed every other Frontier flight to MDW was overbooked today. Fucking spring breakers.

Plan B: find another flight, as I'd assuredly be missing my connection. (See why I never check baggage unless I'm ticketed and there's a need to?) Finally found one on American Airlines. Denver to Chicago to Louisville, even (never mind that it's O'Hare instead of MDW, but meh. I still loathe ORD). But to buy the ticket, I had to go back out. So I dug out my passport to avoid being SSSS'd again and spent 45 minutes in line behind a clone of my ex-roommate. (She and her buds were, like, on the way to Mexico, like, of course that's like the only place you should go for spring break, like totally.) And my first flight was first class (only open spot), so I got to bypass the OMGFUCKINGHUGE security line (it was easily a half hour wait, or even more) and go through expedited.

I even got some sleep on the plane. Or at least dozed.

I didn't even spend this much actually going places for break freshman year.

And did I mention I have a cold but no voice? And there's a big choir rehearsal tomorrow and it'll suck if I can't sing. What worries me more is the fact that when I get a cold it always turns into a sinus infection. And I don't want to have to deal with that.