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oxfordtweed) wrote2010-06-22 11:26 pm
oxfordtweed) wrote2010-06-22 11:26 pm
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I'm having another Phoebe moment
Remember the episode where they all stayed up all night? Ya know, the one where Phoebe's smoke alarm kept going off and she flipped her shit over it?
I'm up in my room at my mum's, and there's a smoke alarm somewhere in here that's going off. Or at least, it's trying to. Only the battery is near dead, so it's making the final death throes noise, where it sounds more like an angry Geiger counter trying to shout down a crowded pub. And I've no idea where it is! D:
In other news, the first day of my trip has gone fairly okay. Once I got away from PDX, things started working. The airport experience? Not so much. First, I nearly missed my bus because it was 15 minutes early. Then, I didn't have my conformation number, and got to the check-in counter just behind a very large group of Asian tourists who didn't speak English, so check-in took about an hour. On top of that, my carry-on bag was too big for carry-on, so I had to do some creative shuffling. Only, no matter how much I tried to shuffle, I wound up with THREE items, which meant I STILL had to check my damn bag, which cost me $20.
After that, my plane was late to Vegas, which made us late taking off. Flying over Crater Lake made up for that, though.
Then, when I got to PDX, to get out of the terminal, you have to sort of go back through security (not really through it. There's a small walk way where you can go through that's just to the side of security), and SOMETHING happened. No one knows what, but all the staff were running around yelling at everybody nearby to STOP. It was seriously weird, and we had to just all stand in the same place for about 15 minutes.
The rest of the day was pretty cool, though. I watched The Book of Eli with mum, and then went to go meet Mary at PSU. What normally took me two hours to do on the 72 took me 45 minutes to do on the new Green Line. Score one for the MAX. Mary and I wandered around down town for a few hours before finally going to the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
damnportlanders meet up, which was a lot of fun. We shared YouTube videos on our iPhones, and I wowed everybody with a few card tricks. The Penn & Teller one went over especially well, even after it screwed up somehow.
Now I am home. And tired. And wishing that stupid smoke alarm would JUST SHUT UP AND DIE, ALREADY.
I'm up in my room at my mum's, and there's a smoke alarm somewhere in here that's going off. Or at least, it's trying to. Only the battery is near dead, so it's making the final death throes noise, where it sounds more like an angry Geiger counter trying to shout down a crowded pub. And I've no idea where it is! D:
In other news, the first day of my trip has gone fairly okay. Once I got away from PDX, things started working. The airport experience? Not so much. First, I nearly missed my bus because it was 15 minutes early. Then, I didn't have my conformation number, and got to the check-in counter just behind a very large group of Asian tourists who didn't speak English, so check-in took about an hour. On top of that, my carry-on bag was too big for carry-on, so I had to do some creative shuffling. Only, no matter how much I tried to shuffle, I wound up with THREE items, which meant I STILL had to check my damn bag, which cost me $20.
After that, my plane was late to Vegas, which made us late taking off. Flying over Crater Lake made up for that, though.
Then, when I got to PDX, to get out of the terminal, you have to sort of go back through security (not really through it. There's a small walk way where you can go through that's just to the side of security), and SOMETHING happened. No one knows what, but all the staff were running around yelling at everybody nearby to STOP. It was seriously weird, and we had to just all stand in the same place for about 15 minutes.
The rest of the day was pretty cool, though. I watched The Book of Eli with mum, and then went to go meet Mary at PSU. What normally took me two hours to do on the 72 took me 45 minutes to do on the new Green Line. Score one for the MAX. Mary and I wandered around down town for a few hours before finally going to the
damnportlanders meet up, which was a lot of fun. We shared YouTube videos on our iPhones, and I wowed everybody with a few card tricks. The Penn & Teller one went over especially well, even after it screwed up somehow.Now I am home. And tired. And wishing that stupid smoke alarm would JUST SHUT UP AND DIE, ALREADY.