So I am home for the day today to run some errands, send off payment for grad school, etc. So I uploaded the photos I have taken at schroon lake so far, you can find them here.
So I leave for vacation today, probably won’t be posting this week, but will post an update on how my vacation went when I get back!
So I got a couple sentences out of today’s talks to report back about! What a relief!
Overall though, there were way too many times when I thought to myself “Bueller. Bueller” and wanted to doze off (if you don’t get that reference, I should really thank you for taking time out from your busy ‘living under a rock’-schedule to check my blog 
).
And the award for all-time most annoying, cringe-inducing statement to make during a presentation goes to…(Rachel opens envelope)…”I know you aren’t able to read this slide at all, but…” (If we can’t read it, find a different way to present the info, buddy!)
I think the real low point was this one speaker who literally answered every question that was asked of her with the words “I don’t know” (and they should have been basic questions)
Pretty long day and I go to so many of these presentations that a lot of people look familiar but I can’t place them…I may have gone to dinner with them or just seen them give a presentation…but I have no clue…happened at least 3 times today…annoying for someone who usually has a good memory…
Anyways, back to watching tv…
So I just landed and am settling in for my 2 hour layover in baltimore, longer than I usually like (I find that an hour is generally preferable), but ever since my 10 hour layover in puerto rico, its difficult to really complain about the shorter layovers. BWI is nice at least, which is good cause I have completely lost count of how many times I’ve been here. Since most of southwests flight connect through here.
So I sat down in my aisle seat in the plane. Just to give a little background here - southwest seating is first come, first serve…so I checked in 24 hours ahead of time and got there 2 hours early just to make sure I got an aisle…I am extremely attached to my aisle seats… its literally the only thing that makes my flying experience borderline almost approaching tolerable.
So this lady not only gets on the plane absolute last, she asks me if I will move to the middle for her so she can have the aisle…I politely declined (she didn’t have an obvious medical reason for needing the seat, which is the only thing that would motivate me to give it up) and then she gets angry (even though I was nice and apologetic about it), throws her stuff down on the middle seat and yells at me to move so she can be in the middle. Then she yells at this other lady across the aisle for looking at her, said: “what are you looking at lady?” Umm..maybe at the extremely loud and obnoxious lady making a scene like a 5 year old? (geez, if you want a better seat, get here earlier, not my problem lady!). Thought it would be a long flight after that, but then she all of a sudden went into polite, overly talkative mode like it didn’t happen. She was pretty weird…then she got angry at the flight attendant for collecting her drink right before we landed (the flight attendant did leave it til the last minute, it is her job to remove it)…even though she was done with it - kept yelling that she paid for it. Then went back to pretending that hadn’t happened either.
Relieved that she isn’t going to indianapolis… Interesting woman anyway, guess she left her 15 year old kid at home by himself cause he wouldn’t get in the car, don’t know if I would either if this is a typical flying experience with her. Usually I enjoy talking to the people next to me on flights - but she was an exception!
So they tell you to get to the airport earlier now cause of the whole no liquids thing. Luckily I always get to the airport early anyways, so it doesn’t bother me too much that I did get here early, the lines were non-existent and I got through security in literally 2 minutes. Maybe its good that the last time I flew was in the pre-memorial day craziness, so compared to that this week should feel nice and quiet. Hmm…at least I brought a few books to pass the time while I wait for my flight to bwi to start boarding… I realized that I forgot to bring a watch…I’m glad I have relatively short flights today, cause it drives me nuts not knowing what time it is on the long flights.