dancingyel | start of arizona visit

i am in tucson. my garment bag (with suit and pretty much everything else except for the bare essentials) is not. this is exactly what melinda and i talked about. funny, but not. however, i just got a call from the airline people telling me that the bags should be here (at the place i'm staying) in the next few hours. thank goodness, otherwise i would've had to do interviews in my clothes from today. that would suck. i know everyone would understand and all, but still, yuck! but yeah, stuff arriving, so i will have suit and shirts and nice shoes, and even pjs to sleep in tonight! yay.

the reason the bags aren't here is that the sfo to phoenix part of my trip left 40 minutes late. they had to rearrange some cargo. and then get a new weight manifesto. and then get a new and accurate weight manifesto. so then, in phoenix, i ran to the shuttle, took it 2 terminals over, ran to the check-in place, got told by a really rude, bitchy woman that i couldn't check in for my flight because i had to be there 45 minutes in advance (i was there 40 minutes in advance), had my anxiety levels skyrocket, ran over to another counter, and got checked in with no mention of the 45 minute thing. ran across to security, fretted in line, ran across the entire terminal to my gate, and then spent the (thankfully short) flight next to a rather smelly individual. but at least the flight was all of 25 minutes. and the crew was funny. so now i'm here, at a grad student's place (she has a gigantic, really nice 1 bedroom for 610 a month!), waiting for my stuff to arrive so i can go to sleep. my day tomorrow starts with an 8am meeting, so sleep would be good. ah, well.

here's to hoping it goes well! good night!