Getting Excited

So I’m beginning to get a li’l excited about my trip next week. It’s almost exactly one week until departure. Woo-hoo!

Panic

I chatted with Radish this morning, and she reminded me I’ve promised at least 3 or 4 times to send her my itinerary. lol So I got right on top of that… checkin Expedia.com for my most updated itinerary, only to discover that my return flight from San Diego on Nov. 1st has been cancelled. Doh! So I called up the contact number to find out what’s going on… and their computers were down, may I please call back in a couple of hours? Oh fun. 2 more hours of fussing about whether or not I’ll be able to come home in time to vote on the 2nd!

But it was all fussing in vain. Upon my return call, I discovered that they rescheduled me on a different flight leaving San Diego about a half hour later than the original flight, but still getting me to St. Louis in plenty of time to catch my connection. So all is good. :)

The Continuing Days of Our Lives…

Amway, I also caught up with Radish on some other stuff we talked about last night when I called. More drama goin on at the home front… though it’s not quite as intense as the last batch. It seems THAT debacle has been smoothed out for now. The new excitement is just over a guy (ain’t it all?) who’s bein a player. They’re currently plotting to catch him in his own game, but I think some feelings have already been hurt. *sigh*

And just think… I get to join in the fun next week! I kind of feel like old times when we were always keepin each other up on the scoop. :)

Enlightenment… or Not

Oh, and I got to talk to my Aussie again briefly this afternoon. And when I say briefly, I mean briefly… Probly lasted all of 3 minutes… lol Though I gave a valiant effort to extract an explanation for his cryptic comment at the end of our last convo, he really was in a hurry, so there just wasn’t enough time. However, he did offer that he’d had a lot of things on his mind during our last convo, he was over it (whatever the problem was) and all is good. Of course, this explains precisely squat and does nothing to assuage my curiosity, but he has promised further discussion on the matter when he has time. So I suppose I shall HAVE to be satisfied with that. *sigh*

Not so Simple

Though, in the course of my raging curiosity, I’ve been tryin to think of what he could possibly have objected to in my written thoughts. And in revisiting my post about him, I realized that my thoughts at the time that I wrote it were pretty one sided. So I’d like to clarify our relationship a li’l bit. I originally wrote that our communication is mostly about him having dramas and me providing a sounding board, support, advice, etc. But if I take a step back and simply go back a few years, I realize that hasn’t always been the case. It just seems that way cuz, well, he’s been goin through a lot lately.

But in the beginning, our conversations were much more diverse… ranging all manners of topics, from philosophical to political to social to historical to, yes, even personal. He’s actually quite knowledgeable and widely read… rarely did any of our convos NOT hold a new tidbit of knowledge for me about history or the world. He also delights in teaching me a new Aussie-ism just about every time we talk, too. They have GOT to have an endless supply of the suckers… lol

But amway, we still have our deep convos every great once in a while, but I guess I kind of forgot about them. I rather miss them, actually. Of course, just as he’s getting his thoughts in order, I’m fairly sure he’s also a notice away from a military field posting of sorts. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the two phenomena are related. He’s VERY career military minded, and I think he’s been looking forward to the strictly regimental mentality.

So the gist of that situation, for me, is that I’ll probly not get to chat with him again for a while. Which is perfectly fine. It's not entirely unusual for us to go several months between communication.

Tropical Storm Me

So it seems I am now a Tropical Storm! Yeah, the Atlantic storms worked their way up the alphabet list of names of this year, and they got to me. Hopefully I won’t cause an awful lotta damage. It seems my current projection will bring me to land somewhere in Novia Scotia… but I seem to have degraded to a SubTropical Storm. I mentioned this to the student I share my office with and he offered me his condolences and wished me better luck next time. *snicker* Wise ass.

Forecast for the Night

Welp, that’s about all I can think of for today. It’s raining out… has been for the last few days. Most folks I guess would call it dreary, but I love it. I guess it’s kind of an echo from the droughts I lived through when I was growing up. And thunderstorms are just plain awesome.

I plan to spend another quiet evening tonight… possibly call Halloween Nut, and work some more on the ‘puter. Last night I caught up on a lotta the ‘puter stuff I wanted to get done this weekend, but I still have a li’l more to do. I’ve also started putting together my list of things to pack, and checking supplies, etc. I like to find out I still need to buy, clean or wash something BEFORE the day before I leave. *grin*

So until tomorrow… signing off.