UPS is requiring someone to be present for the delivery of my TV stand. It would have been nice to know that BEFORE the first delivery attempt, because then I would have taken my work laptop with me last night and worked from home today.
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
Simon ,'Safe'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Jul 29, 2009 3:41:21 pm PDT #1253 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Dana - Jul 29, 2009 3:42:53 pm PDT #1254 of 30001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Know what else you can get for $12? Internet ON THE PLANE.
Which is somewhat soothing my pain over the fact that I'll be stranded in Salt Lake City overnight.
Jesse - Jul 29, 2009 3:50:05 pm PDT #1255 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wish you knew my friend in SLC, Dana -- she's even going to the airport in the morning!
Dana - Jul 29, 2009 3:52:28 pm PDT #1256 of 30001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I actually have relatives in SLC, but husband and I ended up there overnight in December, and I don't really want to impose on them again, even though I know they wouldn't mind.
I also don't really have the brainpower to deal with it right now. It'll be almost 10 by the time I land, and I will have been awake far too long.
Lee - Jul 29, 2009 4:02:46 pm PDT #1257 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Welcome home Sara!
sarameg - Jul 29, 2009 4:07:09 pm PDT #1258 of 30001
Not going to even try to catch up anytime soon. I am tanned and fit (to my surprise) and the trip and the people on it did wonderful things for me.
Kathmandu is on paper everything I might hate: crazy, chaotic, filthy, no personal space, noisy, poverty is abysmal, and I LOVED IT. I waded in ankle deep filth carried by monsoon rains and liked it.
Bhutan was magical, and the eclipse...well, we fucking lucked out and got to see it. Weather held until the last day, and the country is incredible.
I am also exhausted having woken up every single morning between 5 and 5:30 local, regardless of whether I went to bed at midnight or 3 am. I did an insane impression of an extrovert, and even felt the energy rush of one the whole time.
And now I suspect I will collapse for a few days. And try not to kill the parents. I refrained remarkably well.
Having a trio of UK doctors and the organizer (also a UKer) to drink and trek with helped immeasurably. I miss them terribly already.
More as I get stuff online.
Jesse - Jul 29, 2009 4:08:01 pm PDT #1259 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay Sara!!
beth b - Jul 29, 2009 4:08:54 pm PDT #1260 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Sounds amazing, sarameg. I bet the kitties mob you.
sarameg - Jul 29, 2009 4:12:46 pm PDT #1261 of 30001
Kitties are fine. My parents are already being too close despite having spent the last 30 hours WAY TOO CLOSE. Thank god the organizer sat me with him the first leg, even though it was the shortest. It gave me a good start.
Steph L. - Jul 29, 2009 4:18:45 pm PDT #1262 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Sara, the trip sounds incredible! Welcome back!