5AM Ramblings

Back Home in Denver

21 December 2008 | Jason

“Our flight will take five hours.  We are headed into some awful headwinds.”  Our pilot told us as we were sitting at the Logan Airport about to take off.  I hope my father doesn’t go to the airport too early and have to wait an extra hour.  I settle into my leather chair with DirecTV and prepare for a long flight.  No, I was not in first class, I was on a JetBlue flight.  There is no first class and all the seats have leather.  I made a good choice picking this airline.  I watch a few House episodes and Mythbusters (although satellite signal sometimes died) and try to sleep a little.  We finally touch down at midnight and I go to baggage claim to pick up my bag.  Luckily it is the first bag out.  I get picked up by my father and we go home. I immediately go to my (creaky) bed and crash.

I wake up the next morning and go to my high school.  Sadly I get there after the faculty skit (I forgot about it) where they usually parody  the students.  All the faculty are at their White Elephant Gift Exchange and half the students are off campus getting lunch.  I arrived at the worst possible time.  Wandering the halls, I do find some of my friends there and eventually everyone returns.  I greet everyone and EVERYONE asks how’s MIT.  I try to best represent the pain and anguish the classes have caused me.  At home, I try out the new OpenSUSE release.

The next day is an alum meetup.  Everyone gets hugs including the short little asian senior girls.  It is nice to see much of the class again and we all talk of our adventures in college.  Many of them involve drunk people, naked people, and everything.  We all go to the upper school to look at our class photo because rumor has it someone was cut out.  We look closely at the photo, remark about how we’re all touched up so much and find our missing classmate.  He was standing separate of everyone in the photo, so they decided he needed to be taken out to make the picture look better.  Although it would be very awkward to have him standing alone, I still find it awful how they did that to him.  We go to the Spicy Pickle for food, and had found some of our classmates leaving, going to the mall.  We eat and try to join up with them, but just as we get there, they are about to leave.  They only needed one thing and one of them had to go babysitting.  We all head our own ways and I go visit my friend from middle school.  She needs to go hang lights and I choose to fill the “management” position.  That was quite fun, maybe I should think about course 15.

Today I had to ship my sister’s charger she forgot to pack.  My sister and I missed each other by mere hours.  She left before I got into Denver.  Since it was Saturday, the post offices have shorter hours, so I searched online to try to find one that would be open.  I find one in Littleton and head there to try to mail off the package.  When I get there, I drive around but can’t find the post office.  This is a small problem.  I need to ship this off sooner than later.  I go for one of my new toys, a GPS unit, (my other is a new camera), search for a post office, and head on my way.  I get there and it is closed, but luckily there is a machine I can use to purchase postage.  I send off the box successfully.  I head to the library next to pick up some books so I can start hacking away at my booklist.  I also buy some strings to get my tennis racquet restrung so I can play again in Boston.

Make friends, be social, don’t be depressed all the time, your school might disown you