Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Would that this week were over

Tomorrow is hump day - and not in a fun way. I teach two classes and have to give a short faculty brown bag presentation of my work (which is stymied at the moment). It's no biggie, but I'll be glad when it's off my plate. Thursday and Friday are no less busy. But this weekend promises to contain NOTHING but a lovely minor league ball game outing on Sunday.

Here's the rest in bullet form:

- I've reconciled myself to the fact that the Egg will not launch until the end of next month rather than at the end of this month. I can't turn my addled brain to it until classes are over.

- This weekend I had to look at proofs/provide corrections for two separate articles that are due back to the journals tomorrow - when it rains it pours.

- TD is still stuck in Dutchmanlandia and finally today bought a THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR one-way ticket from there to close to where he lives now. He'll still have to take a 3 1/2 shuttle from the airport where he lands back to the city in which he lives (not for much longer). And his car is still parked in an entirely different city's airport (from where he originally took off) another two hours beyond the city where he lives (not for much longer). Does that make sense? But if he waited for the airline to rebook him on another flight, he'd probably be there another 3 weeks. So, he had to cough up the dough and buy a separate ticket on another airline. And he still won't be back until this Saturday b/c all the earlier flights are full. F*CK THAT VOLCANO!!!

- I am growing more and more like a sea lion every day:

4 comments:

Sisyphus said...

Awwww! You look so cute!

Notorious Ph.D. said...

Three thousand dollars?!? Holy fuck! That is extortionate. Really, I hope he denounces the airline company to whatever business organization applies. This is just plain wrong.

This Ro(a)mantic Life said...

WOW. I hope that airline ticket comes with some MAJOR perks. They can't possibly add up to the actual cost, but holy cow, let them give him something to soften the blow ...

My word verification: porin. Yes, rainin' and porin it is.

arsene said...

morning... we e e.. wake up surprised..