6:00AM: Wake up with massive, somewhat irrational stress-out related to school. Be completely unable to fall back asleep. Eventually get up and decide to mess around on computer until I relax enough to back to sleep.
7:00AM: Realize I’m still wide awake but am feeling chilly, put on sweats.
8:00AM: Finally sleepy, but hubby’s alarm clock is about to go off. Decide the hell with sleep and make strong coffee.
Some … person … decided that completely breaking my driver’s side mirror would be a fun thing to do on a Saturday afternoon, so tomorrow morning at 7:30AM I get to go to the dealership and have a new mirror put in.
No note from the [expletive deleted] person who did it, of course, and the cost is lower than my deductible, so it’s all on me. Very annoying. I had some plans for that $300 or so this is going to cost me.
On the bright side, I am glad that I could get an appointment so quickly, and that I don’t really have to drive anywhere today. I feel naked driving without being able to use that mirror.
No, really. It might help my blogging.
I wrote three different blog entries in my head today while doing various things, but since I wasn’t in front of my computer at the time, none of them made it onto my blog. And now, as I sit in the living room watching CSPAN and waiting for the Lieberman / Lamont primary results to come in, I can’t really summon the enthusiasm to type out the posts I’d composed in my head.
And jetlagged, and very happy to be with Scott & the kitties again.
I had a great time in Barcelona. About half my photos are already on Flickr. I have more photos still to upload, and I want to add some commentary to the travel blog.
I read a fascinating book on the flight home that I want to talk about, and that will find its way online fairly soon. Plus other stuff.
However, it’s hot as hell in San Mateo and we have at best spotty A/C, so what I can’t get done in the cooler hours will have to wait.
Greetings from Barcelona. I’m running around like mad and generally having a good time.
With all that’s going on here, frankly I wasn’t really focusing on exactly how badly things are going over in the Middle East. Then Dad forwarded an update e-mail from the cousins in Haifa and it started to sink in that this isn’t just another crisis. With the news that shells have started to fall in Haifa, all I can do is to hope some sanity prevails before more people get killed.
Doves of Peace, looking out over Barcelona.
Let us all keep a thought for peace tonight.
Less than 3 hours and I’ll be in the air.
I have a new travel blog set up for tourist blogging here although right now all that’s there is a placeholder post.
Whether I will actually have time to blog much I don’t know. This trip feels like a huge leap into the unknown right now; I’m just going to have to see what happens once I get there.
In other words, consider this fair warning: there may not be much new here until the 23rd. Or maybe there’ll be a new post later today. There’s only one way to find out.
And with that, I need to hit the showers and toss a last few odds and ends into my suitcase. Ciao!