Thursday, December 29, 2005
whirlwind of activity
so today i am leaving for new york. you’da thunk that i’d’ve packed early, and gone to bed early to get rest for my flight.... oh but no.
i instead stayed up late last night, not packing, mind you, but hosting tuesday night dinner and making sure everyone had enough to eat and was having fun. and then i still had to get up early this morning to have breakfast with friends. after breakfast, i went through several different stores looking for appropriate shoes/boots to wear (and in the process, i was able to find/buy perry’s Christmas gift - shhh! it’s still a secret!). i went home to unpack everything from my car and had to pretty much turn around immediately to meet up with a couple’a students to go night skiing.
can you believe we fit 1 teacher, 2 students, and 3 sets of skis/snowboards/boots/etc in my little scion xA? well believe it - we did! it’s amazing to me still that we fit comfortably, even!
ahhhh, but i digress.
after dropping the students off at home, i then proceeded to the loma linda gym where i played volleyball and basketball. i was gonna go play poker after that, but nah, it didn’t happen. i finally went home around 2am and started cleaning up the mess i had made, and i also packed. i needed to make sure the clothes i pack keep me warm, but don’t overly stuff the suitcases that my parents and kat’s parents had so generously lended to us so that i can help kathy bring back stuff to CA.
end result? i’m done packing, and i’ve also finished reading dan brown’s “angels and demons”. it’s now 7:30 thursday morning and i haven’t slept more than 3 hours since tuesday.
i’m so glad that the rest of today has me traveling so i can catch up on much needed sleep on planes, trains, and automobiles along the way!