No battery charger, but I don't think I'll run out of battery power in just a few hours of flight.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2009 5:06:03 pm PDT #4814 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ginger - Mar 26, 2009 5:09:44 pm PDT #4815 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I back up needed information like yours for your talk and ticket information online, but I'm pretty paranoid.
Plastic bags in case you need to ice some body part at the hotel?
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2009 5:15:07 pm PDT #4816 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Backing up online is a good idea. I emailed the slides for the talk to my advisor on Monday, and haven't changed much since then (just one minor change), so that's saved in my sent mail folder on gmail. Airplane information is also saved in gmail and on my blackberry.
Blackberry charger! And a few plastic bags, too. And makeup.
Vortex - Mar 26, 2009 5:14:48 pm PDT #4817 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Decent coffee?
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2009 5:15:26 pm PDT #4818 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I don't drink coffee.
Laga - Mar 26, 2009 5:16:21 pm PDT #4819 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sunblock?
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2009 5:19:01 pm PDT #4820 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
For Kentucky? In March?
Laga - Mar 26, 2009 5:19:53 pm PDT #4821 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I always bring sunblock. I'm pale like that.
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2009 5:22:11 pm PDT #4822 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm olive-skinned and usually have low Vitamin D in the winter. I don't tend to sunblock until at least June or so.
brenda m - Mar 26, 2009 5:36:12 pm PDT #4823 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So, this was weird. Apparently I'm going to Italy.
We were tossing around ideas for my dad's birthday (he's 70 this year) and right in the middle of that I spotted some seriously cheap fares to Italy. And suddenly an idea my sister and I had tossed around yonks ago in a sort of yeah, someday way was resurrected.
He spent several years there in the Navy, still speaks Italian (kind of), met my mom there when she was spending her grad school tuition futzing around Europe with her friends, etc. So, yeah, it was kind of a significant place to him. And they never made it back there.
[It wasn't a huge tragic story - we did make it to other parts of Europe on a couple of occasions so it's not like they couldn't have. But still. I know it would mean a huge amount to him to get to see the place once more and remember and share some of his history.
So I bought the damn tickets and the three of us are going in May. Only for a few days - in theory, she's contributing but reality is that is basically going to be on my dime so I really had to be firm with myself about what was going to be manageable.
Anyway, we're flying into Pisa, will go from there maybe to Florence for a day, then a couple of days in Naples where he lived and then back to Pisa to head back. Phew.
Any advice, suggestions, warnings? I'll take anything you got.