Catch Up.

So close to having regular access to internet. Or at least I hope so. I have been on the move since graduation (mine and Jamie’s), but it’s been pretty great. After doing some serious apartment-hunting I feel all grown up. While I still don’t know exactly what we’re doing for next year as far as living situation goes, I have a pretty good idea: Jamie and I are going to live together halfway between Baltimore and DC. We found a promising apartment community…I just have to call tomorrow to make sure that they will actually have an apartment available when we need it (in August). Cross your fingers…

But rather than go on about my past week when I was MIA, I’d rather just tell you about the day that nothing went right – meaning yesterday.

Jamie and I had a lot planned for the day – complete with lots of apartment-hunting and some test commuting. In one sense, we did pretty well: we checked out some apartments, ran some errands, had lunch at and toured Georgetown Law, and met up with friends. Sadly, we forgot some key things:

(1) In our speed packing, I bypassed the room check as we left Jason’s house (Jamie had kindly stuffed all my things into a bag for me while I did some errands) and left all my jewelry, watch, glasses, and contact lens stuff. Crap.

(2) We failed to make reservations for a hotel for the night. This was crucial since Jamie was leaving for Minnesota at 6am and we wouldn’t want to wake anyone at the ungodly hour of 4am.

(3) We failed to get a travel alarm and decided to rely solely on my cell phone as an alarm for said 4am wake-up. Suffice to say, we did not wake up until 30 minutes before Jamie’s flight. CRAP.

(4) I failed to get GOOD directions back to Williamstown and didn’t notice that the directions I did have led me into New York City.

Anyway, I can report that Jamie made it safely to Minnesota and I made it safely back to Williams. I ended up turning around and winging it once I realized that I was in the middle of the Bronx. I was a little frightened at first, but then I realized (as I passed the Fordham campus) that I was going to be there all summer so I should get used to it. I’m really curious to see if I’m actually going to come out of this summer liking New York. Should be fun.

While the drive back was long (starting right after I dropped Jamie off at the airport), it didn’t feel that way since I bought Dave Sedaris’ new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, on CD for the trip. While, audio books are incredibly expensive, I figured it would be the only way I would be able to survive a 7-hour road trip by myself after a night of 4 hours of sleep. It was perfect. I had heard that the book wasn’t as good as his others – and that’d probably be true since Me Talk Pretty One Day and Naked were pretty amazing – but I think that the book on tape venue is especially good for Mr. Sedaris. It lends a whole stand-up comic feel to his stories and he’s a pretty funny guy. It was as if he were sitting in the car with me.

It was a good purchase…especially since it was 30% off at Barnes and Nobles. On-deck for the trip back I have The Life of Pi.

Good times.