Today I had to face reality and, as they say, get back to the grindstone. Yesterday was quite the eventful travel day after having an eventful travel day on Saturday. I went up to the airport with Greg yesterday morning, and his plane left at about 10:00 a.m. Mine was supposed to leave at 11:30, and they even boarded us on time, but we sat there and sat there on the plane. Come to find out, they had shut down the airport AGAIN to clear off the runways (it was snowing outside again). So we sat on the plane for about two hours, then we got de-iced, then we got in line out on the runway to take off. Just when we were the next plane to go, our pilot got on the speaker and said, "Sorry folks. Our de-icing fluid has expired, and we need to go get de-iced again." So we had to go wait in line to be de-iced a second time, then had to get back in line on the runway. We didn't end up taking off until about 15 minutes before we had originally been scheduled to land in St. Louis! I was sitting by these really nice people from St. Louis (originally from Tennessee) who shared their chicken salad and crackers with me and talked with me about their grandkids for the entire six hours that we were on the airplane. :-) They were very excited to hear about my recent engagement. They were so cute, and when we finally got off the airplane, the lady gave me a big hug. Instead of getting into St. Louie at 3:00 p.m., I got there at about 5:30. Greg was nice enough to wait for me and drive me back to Charleston. We didn't get here to C-town until about 9:30 p.m., so it had definitely been a long couple of travel days, but I was glad to be with Greg and to make it back here before school started today.
Speaking of school starting, it was kind of a long but good day. It felt really early when I went to Dr. Small's Architectural History in America class at 9:00--since my body is still on Utah time. There were many surprised classmates when they noticed the ring on my finger. A couple of them knew already, but most did not. Everyone was excited except for . . . you guessed it: Dan. He seemed mad, but what's new? I think that Dr. Small's class will be a lot of fun, but over the break I forgot how hard it is to sit through a two-and-a-half hour class. After class, Aly and I went to Jimmy John's for lunch since we hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping yet and didn't have any food here at the apartment. Jimmy John's is a gourmet sandwich joint which originated here in Charleston in 1982. I guess it's becoming a national chain now because I saw one in St. George when Mom and I were there a couple of weeks ago. There are two things that Charleston is famous for: Jimmy John's and Tony Romo (the Dallas Cowboys quarterback who went to school here at Eastern).
After lunch I was so pooped that I went back to the apartment and crashed for about three hours. Then Aly and I went over to Wal Mart and got groceries. Unfortunately I have a Monday night class this semester, so we then had to go back over to campus. Our Monday night class with Dr. Barnhart is called Social and Cultural History of 19th Century America. I think it will be very interesting. One of our books is about religious revivals near Rochester, New York in the 1820s and 1830s--I know about that! Dr. Barnhart is a big Ohio State fan and wanted to let us out of class early so he could go watch the big National Championship game against LSU, but in typical Dr. Barnhart fashion, he ended up talking for the entire class period anyway, so he probably missed most of the game. I've never seen anyone be able to talk as much as he does--for two-and-a-half hours straight, he can talk nonstop!
After class I went over to Catherine's house to chat with her and help her administer some earmite medicine to her cute cats. I guess that the kitties picked up earmites somewhere (nasty!) so she needed to roll them up in towels and put this goopy stuff in their ears (which they did not enjoy). The best news of the century is that until February 12, I won't have any classes on Tuesdays--since our Museum Exhibits class this semester is only 2 credits. So I don't have to deal with transportation corridors until next month. Tomorrow I'm planning to work out in the morning, go pick up my textbooks, meet with Dr. Hardeman, and then have a meeting and go to dinner with the compadres here. They have decided that since we won't be here in June for my birthday, they need to celebrate my half-birthday which was on December 29, so I guess there will be cake involved tomorrow.
The weather here is seriously messed-up!! When I landed in St. Louis last night, they said that the temperature outside was 72 degrees--that is NOT normal! Today it has been in the 60's here in C-town, and it is very wet and humid outside. Unfortunately this abnormally warm weather is now encountering some normal cold weather, and some nasty severe weather has been developing. There was a tornado watch here in C-town earlier today, and tonight we are supposed to have severe storms. Weather.com said that "some storms may contain tornadoes." That's comforting. Oh well, I'm off to bed.
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That was quite an adventure getting you back to Charleston. Thank goodness everything worked out for you and Greg to both arrive safely, even though you were hours apart. That was some crazy weather at the airport!
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