Leavin' on a jet plane
Uggggh. I am thinking that three weddings in a summer is too many. As previously mentioned, I went home to Middle-of-Nowhere'sville, Upstate NY this weekend for a bridal shower and dress fitting extravaganza.Update on the dress: I have never seen a dress so long in my whole life. They could make a new dress out of all of the material that they have to cut off to make it the right length. I didn't think it looked too bad, but they are still altering it anyway. Eh. No biggie.
Update on the bridal shower: It was okay, although I was slightly annoyed that really only 2/6 bridesmaids (one of the two being me) seemed to do much of any of the work at the shower. It was fine though. Boring, but fine. She got an impressive amount of presents. Notes to anyone ever involved in planning/throwing any sort of shower for me: 1) I want lots of presents 2) The point is that it is a party, please be sure that none of my friends or family members are stressing about the straightness or smoothness of tablecloths and 3) The game they played was cute, but I would much prefer to play it with shots as opposed too bubble gum. Thanks. :)
Other updates on the weekend: I am an AWFUL, AWFUL driver. Now, I know that this is not a surprise, but I felt that my driving this weekend was particularly pitiful. I didn't get into an accident or anything, but I definitely felt out of practice. Our very small town has two stoplights (the second being added while I was in college) and I managed to run them both in the same day. Ooops. This whole thing is making me rethink my car renting idea for next weekend.
Update on the Dulles curse: not only did my luggage get lost on the way to NY, but my plane was delayed leaving DC for two hours due to maintenance issues (they had to change the tires.) I can't tell you how excited I am that I get to fly there for the next few weeks.
In the end, I am really tired and rather stressed. I am having awful flashbacks to senior year of college when I interviewed for graduate school and had eight interviews in seven weeks. I would fly out on Thursday and come back on Sunday and would try to fit in a full amount of lab work as well as a full class schedule on Monday-Wednesday/Thursday. Oh, and a full party schedule too, which was obviously the most important thing. I was REALLY stressed then, and right now I have far fewer things that I can let slide. Notwithstanding actual lab work (of which I have tons. Watch out E., I might task you to help me out soon) I also have to get a wedding present, plane tickets for the weekend of the June 4th, a hotel room for this weekend, a potential rental car for this weekend, and do some other shopping ASAP. And get a passport, since I couldn't find my expired one at home. And reply to about 50 emails (if you sent me an email, it is probably sitting in my inbox with a little red exclamation point that I just added to it, I'll reply today, I promise.) And unpack so that I can do laundry and repack so that I can leave again on Thursday. And then there's the lab stuff.......
posted by Immunegirl @ 3:08 PM
5 Comments:
Oh man, I remember how wiped I got during interviews, and I didn't even have as many as you did. Six schools total, but one was local (heh, bet you can guess which one!), and the other five were consolidated into three trips. But they were all to the west coast. I remember thinking, how the heck do people who travel all the time for business do it?
Two stoplights?!
Damn, I thought my hometown was small. I think we have 4 or 5, though. :)
Breath iggy breath!!
I know how stressed out I am with just 1 wedding and 1 boring ass job. I can't imagine having 3 weddings and a job where you actually work!! Are you a bridesmaid in all 3?
Poor Iggy. :(
*hug*
Nope, I'm a bridesmaid in two. :)
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