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.
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.
Smooth travels, and have a fabulous time!
I'm about to go in to have the front tag mounted on the car while I wait. Then a long work day and my once monthly therapy session tonight. I should eat first.
If I hadn't forgotten I was boiling eggs in the stove yesterday, I'd have hard boiled eggs to eat. Instead, I have a pot to clean before I try again... with an Alexa reminder this time.
No waffle bar, but there is wifi. And coffee.
