“If, at your final destination, you should find articles missing from your luggage you can then file a complaint with United customer service”
This was the second person to monotonously spout this obviously memorized retort to my desperate pleas.
I wanted to claw his eyes out.
If?.. .IF? something was missing from my bag. From inside the plane sitting on the tarmac in Chicago I had seen my lime green bag coming down the shoot. I had SEEN my drawings fall out as 5 ambivalent luggage handlers shrugged and made no efforts to retrieve the articles or even close the bag!
IF? ??
Yes...claw out his eyes now.
Well, I can’t go into the details.. it is entirely too long, and only one minute part of a whirlwind 2 months since last I wrote.
I’ll just say that the drawings were lost to the winds on the tarmac, but with massive pleading and a bit of shaming, I eventually managed to get a United employee it meet the cart with my lime green bag and close it up before further articles were lost. It really was a miracle of sorts.
The drawings were for a week long Cold Fusion residency in Wisconsin. I had spent two weeks in Idaho furiously working on those drawings, as well as some stencils, and without them I didn’t have a plan for my week of research. Hmmmm? It was an interesting week indeed.
But, weeks later, I’m alive and the drawings a distant but somewhat bitter memory.
What have I been doing you ask? Let me catch you up.
May:
Finish finals. Finish Grading. Tear up lab. Put lab together.
Pack for Idaho, drive to Idaho.
Make cold fusion prep stuff for two weeks.
June:
Lose cold fusion stuff on tarmac in Chicago
Pretend to make interesting stuff for a week in cheese state
Camp and poo excessively with Crazy for a week (see her post)
Poo excessively for two more weeks whilst pretending to write a Fulbright application.
Host friend for a week. (yes, of course still poo-ing)
There.. all caught up.
I’ll try to do better.
Here are some pictures from random jaunts to help you forget about excessive poo.
4 comments:
So no pictures of the cheese state? :-) Those pictures do make you forget to poo. All I have to say is it could only happen to you! So sorry.
I can't believe they lost them...unbelievable! Heard about the pooing....no fun at all! Those pictures are beautiful...I love the second one....life is never dull, eh?
Really you actually saw the drawings fall out? That's super awesome, and by awesome I mean really lame. Why does that stuff always happen to you? Amazing! Hope to see you soon and that you are feeling better!
I like the "cheese state" comment as it made me think of you as a cartoon cheese- kinda like Spongebob Squarepants...Ok. Maybe that doesn't make sense, but it made me smile.
I recognize a couple of those photos I think :0)
Hopefully the rest of the summer will prove a tad less taxing physically and more rewarding on the visiting, relaxing and rejuvenating front.
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