Late But Not Forgotten

According to Craig's post, I was supposed to update this blog. Oooooh yeah, I must have forgotten. Well, so I'm updating now. The last time I posted was the 10th of January which seems like forever ago. Since then, a ton has happened. I went to visit Matt in Boston for five days which was an absolute blast. But he doesn't have internet or television at his apartment, so aside from being completely cut off from the outside world, I didn't have a way to check email or blog. Oh well-- I found other ways of entertaining myself....

So I was there from Friday morning to Tuesday evening. Actually, it became Friday afternoon because although my plane was on time, there was some kind of confusion and the plane arrived but there was no flight crew to work on it, so I had to kind of hang around the airport for awhile. But that wasn't so bad... when I got to Logan International, Matt was waiting for me by the baggage carousel :), which was a very nice surprise. The five days flew by and before I knew it, it was time to go home... so he took me back to the airport where we hugged and kissed and where I cried (I know, I'm such a sap), and then I was off.

But not even 10 hours later I got a voicemail from him saying that he was sick and had to go to the hospital, and when I called him back, he spent two seconds telling me that he had appendicitis and needed to have a surgery, then he had to go, and all contact was officially cut off. I called his parents throughout the day, but wasn't able to get a progress report until the evening. When I got home, I booked another flight out to Massachusetts without even thinking a second thought. His folks weren't gonna get out to see him, and he was all by himself in the hospital and in a new apartment/new city without any friends. Awwww. So I went to sleep at 11:30pm, woke up at 3:30am, left the house at 4:30am and caught a 6:30am flight. Oh man, the things I'll do for love.

This is a shot I snapped from the airplane window on my flight that I woke up

for literally at the crack of dawn. See? It's just becoming dawn mid-flight.
Here's Matt looking miserable in his hospital bed. Awwww, poor guy!

So here I am now, it's Friday the 20th and it's late... I just got home and I'm exhausted. There was a problem with the trolley that I took to get to the airport and I was convinced I'd never make my flight, but somehow I magically appeared at the terminal with an hour to spare, not to mention that the flight was delayed about a half-hour. Not that I wanted to be leaving Massachusetts or go back to my job, but I was kind of ready for family/friend emergencies to end and I was in desperate need of sleep, so off I went. I was also supposed to work today but that didn't quite work out due to the details of the emergency and the timing, but I have to work Saturday and Sunday, and then on Monday I'm leaving for England!

Phew! So that's it for now. I have to do laundry before I leave the country since I have no clean laundry and don't think that my dirty clothes will make a very good impression on the UK. And then I have to pack, and I'm sure I'll think of some other loose ends I've got to tie up before leaving. Sheesh-- I'm such a jet-setter!