Comments | jurph: Wait, you're where?

jurph

Wait, you're where?

Jul 24, 2005 17:34

31 hours ago I was in Bethany Beach, DE, saying "I'd love to go kayaking today. Let me just check this one thing on my work laptop, and double-check the date on those orders for next week..."

Pants-shitting terror is the name of the feeling you get when you look at a big official piece of paper that says "PROCEED ON" and it has today's date on it ( Read more... )

speed, foreign countries, military, travel

Comments 4

chaosinaskirt July 24 2005, 22:01:35 UTC

bonne chance!

cthulhulovesme July 24 2005, 22:10:32 UTC

Break a leg. Someone else's, preferably.

sirlyric July 24 2005, 22:13:27 UTC

Wow. Yeah, I can see that.

Get in any trouble for being there a bit later than expected?

jurph July 24 2005, 22:25:56 UTC

No, in-processing started at 1300 today and you can show up as late as 1900 (!), and class doesn't start until 0645 tomorrow. My plan as of 5pm yesterday was to manage the 17 (ha!) hour drive plus seven hours of sleep and get here at 1700. The time-zone change bought me an extra hour, I slept less than I planned, and I drove like a bat out of hell, and voici:

EARLY!