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Aug. 28th, 2007 08:31 pmWell, here I am! Thanks for all the comments, everybody.
The trip was honestly amazingly uneventful. I thought I might be hassled about the Tivo, about the amount of luggage I had (one of my suitcases was well over the 50 lbs limit), how long I was staying, or I might be overly tired and miserable either in the morning or by the time I got in, or I wouldn't be able to nap on the plane, or things would get delayed, or or or or or....
As it was, I woke up relatively on time without too much issue (despite it being 3:30 AM), I breezed through security in Houston, no need to open anything, the flights were just standard flights (I even managed to snag a window seat with an open seat next to me on both of them), I got into Toronto, went to the restroom, managed to get in the shortest line for customs, got through that with a 2-minute "what is the purpose of the trip? who are you staying with? enjoy your visit.", and then had to wait about 10-15 minutes for my luggage to show up. Then I found Jerry and we went home (after wading through traffic) and had Swiss Chalet and integrated the Tivo into Jerry's setup and so on.
The hardest part of the whole thing was trying to get my luggage out so I could find Jerry, honestly. (The only other downsides were an awful iced chai from a Starbucks stand in Chicago, and an ...odd smell in the seating area right outside the gate there. Fortunately I had time to grab some McNuggets and the seating area across the way was less odoriferous.)
Sunday was lots of shopping. We hit up Ikea for a bed, dresser, and office chair (which went rather well up until we got down to the part where they wanted us to move around the mattress, box springs, dresser, etc with just the two of us, and it went okay after that, but that part was rather stressful and not fun), and then did lots of other running around. Monday, I was on my own, and not much got done besides emptying my suitcases. Today was a bit more shopping, although we didn't end up getting a lot of the things we were looking for.
My brain is still not entirely getting that I'm here for good (along with everything that means).
But it is definitely good to be here.
The trip was honestly amazingly uneventful. I thought I might be hassled about the Tivo, about the amount of luggage I had (one of my suitcases was well over the 50 lbs limit), how long I was staying, or I might be overly tired and miserable either in the morning or by the time I got in, or I wouldn't be able to nap on the plane, or things would get delayed, or or or or or....
As it was, I woke up relatively on time without too much issue (despite it being 3:30 AM), I breezed through security in Houston, no need to open anything, the flights were just standard flights (I even managed to snag a window seat with an open seat next to me on both of them), I got into Toronto, went to the restroom, managed to get in the shortest line for customs, got through that with a 2-minute "what is the purpose of the trip? who are you staying with? enjoy your visit.", and then had to wait about 10-15 minutes for my luggage to show up. Then I found Jerry and we went home (after wading through traffic) and had Swiss Chalet and integrated the Tivo into Jerry's setup and so on.
The hardest part of the whole thing was trying to get my luggage out so I could find Jerry, honestly. (The only other downsides were an awful iced chai from a Starbucks stand in Chicago, and an ...odd smell in the seating area right outside the gate there. Fortunately I had time to grab some McNuggets and the seating area across the way was less odoriferous.)
Sunday was lots of shopping. We hit up Ikea for a bed, dresser, and office chair (which went rather well up until we got down to the part where they wanted us to move around the mattress, box springs, dresser, etc with just the two of us, and it went okay after that, but that part was rather stressful and not fun), and then did lots of other running around. Monday, I was on my own, and not much got done besides emptying my suitcases. Today was a bit more shopping, although we didn't end up getting a lot of the things we were looking for.
My brain is still not entirely getting that I'm here for good (along with everything that means).
But it is definitely good to be here.
