The department admin just emailed me to say that she assembled the chair and put it in the classroom, and that it's chained to the desk so that no one can walk away with it.

Oof. I needed to do a shit ton of stuff today to expedite Matilda's passport, and I did all the things I can do today, and can finish and turn that in with the expeditors tomorrow.

Filled out online forms, printed them at a local FedEx, scanned important documents, paid for the passport service.

I also did our travel arrangements for going down to LA to look at schools next week, including flights, hotel and rental car.

Also set up visits to two different Claremont Colleges (Pomona, Pitzer), set up a visit with my friend Josh on Thursday, and a sleepover for Matilda on Weds with her friend Veronica (at Cal State Northridge).

So a total whirlwind with us being there from Tues to Friday morning, but a good necessary step.

Also, we met with Hannah last night and we worked out the itinerary for her and Matilda to go to Europoe in October (hence the hurried passport), and then I cut a fat check to Hannah so she could start buying airplane tickets and setting up Air BnB's.

Matilda and Hannah will be flying directly from SFO to London. There for three days, then to Paris for four days. Then to Berlin for a week where they will visit with Hannah's daughter and Matilda's friend, Norah.

I'm going to Colorado tomorrow for a long weekend with my college roommates; one of them (whose birth certificate name is, for real, Buffy) lives in Colorado Springs but also has a condo in Breckenridge, where we plan to loaf and go to Oktoberfest and then the Indigo Girls concert on Saturday. Monday I'll go to my brother's for the day, spend the night, and fly home Tuesday.

Buffy (who you may remember from the previous paragraph is our host) texted the group chat this afternoon to say she tested positive for Covid today. (When the 4 of us met in Nashville 2 years ago, she also tested positive for Covid on the trip. She's cursed.) She doesn't have a fever and her only symptom was a runny nose that stopped running on Monday. She only tested because one of her daughter's friends tested positive today.

So Buffy emailed us the door codes for the condo in Breckenridge, and the 3 of us who are flying in are meeting at the airport and will rent a car and just go straight to the condo. She'll keep testing until she's negative, which will hopefully be tomorrow or Friday, and then come to Breckenridge.

And I am off to bed because my alarm is set for 5:15 tomorrow morning for a 9 a.m. flight. That is a ridiculously early wake-up time for me. Worth it, though.

The department admin just emailed me to say that she assembled the chair and put it in the classroom, and that it's chained to the desk so that no one can walk away with it.

Victory!

And other roommate Megan works in sports broadcasting for the Yankees, and she's still at work right now (11 pm Eastern) and has to leave for the airport at 4:30 a.m. Pretty sure she's not even going to sleep until she gets on the plane.

Other other roommate Krista just texted and said her library hold came in and the book is so big that she had to take clothes out of her suitcase to fit the book.

I swear to you that back in college we actually got up to all kinds of shenanigans. We're just old now.

just texted and said her library hold came in and the book is so big that she had to take clothes out of her suitcase to fit the book.

Priorities. I like hers. Yeah, I'm old but I can afford books so I'm rarely bored.

her library hold came in and the book is so big that she had to take clothes out of her suitcase to fit the book.

honorary Buffista

That sounds like plenty of shenanigans to me, Tep. Have fun!

visits to two different Claremont Colleges (Pomona, Pitzer),

Nice! I went to Harvey Mudd, took some good classes at Pomona and Pitzer that I think about to this day.

I’m at the airport about 90 minutes ahead of my flight, and the airport info insists that my United flight will depart from terminal B, even though United’s terminal is A. So I am sitting at gate B23 with a very dubious look on my face.

I am at the correct gate! That’s a relief.

Now I’m dreaming of a world where there’s a waffle bar on board.

Have a blast, Teppy!