how to deal

date: Jan 15

drink: Stella

what: BN and Blondies with J

two things happened yesterday. first, i found out that one of the classes i'll be teaching (outside of my regular job) starts 3 weeks earlier than i thought - as in 3 weeks from now, instead of 6 weeks. meaning i'm WAY behind in planning for something thats freaking me out as it is! so i gchatted J in a panic and he told me that he'd help me find the paperwork that had gone missing in my apartment and also go with me to BN so that i could start looking for the books i needed to prepare and then we'd go back to my apartment and he'd make dinner while i was getting stuff pulled together. he's a good egg like that.

then, around 3:50 in the afternoon, that same good egg calls me and very non-chalantly asks, is today the day your dad flies? and i'm all yeah, theoretically, cause i'm thinking he's going to tell me that the airports are shut down due to weather/ice or something... and then he's all pulling other info out of me which honestly, didnt even send up my flags because he was so random about it... all of it in an effort to ensure that my father was not currently on a life raft in the hudson river, as my father flies from NY (technically from NJ but a quick news blast would call newark a NY airport) to Charlotte every single thursday. at the time, i didnt even know that my dad had taken an earlier flight than he normally does and was on a 3:29 out of newark. yes, you read that right - my dad was pretty much taking off when that other plane was being attacked by a flock of geese...

anyway, despite the fact that it wasnt my dad's plane, the whole thing did a pretty good job of unnerving me...

J came over, we found my paperwork and headed down to BN... by the time we got out of there, it was just too late to make the food that J had brought over to make dinner so we decided to go out to eat. first tried to go to westside brewing company only to find the place dark (i hope due to a construction problem, not a shut down...) and instead headed to Blondie's...

after the stress of the day, fries and beer were exactly what the dr ordered... well, for me at least... Unfortunately, J's food, beer and fighting-off-a-cold combination didnt exactly agree... pretty much like me a week and a half ago...