I woke up at 5:30 and was on my way to LAX by 6. Of course, even though there were few people on the freeway – there was STILL an accident at the 101/405 connector.
I made it to JohnnyPark in about 35 minutes though. As I waited for their shuttle bus I saw three employees pile into my car and drive away. I think I’ll park at WallyPark next time. Even though JohnnyPark is three times as inexpensive… I just get visions of Ferris Beuhler when I see a bunch of minimum wage chumps jump into my car. Granted I’m not driving a vintage Ferrari, but the rest of the cars being left there were in the grampa genre (one grampa even stopped to unload his luggage right in the middle of the entrance, thus blocking me. His wife couldn’t figure out how to open the trunk from the drivers seat. It was raining a bit… so here was this frantic old man running back and forth from the trunk to the drivers window shooting momentary looks in my direction).
LAX was packed. The shuttle took a long time to get all the way around to Continental. Although not that many people were trying to get through Continental security – the man operating the x-ray machine was not the swiftest boat in Vietnam, and so we all had to wait forever. His wanding fairy lamented “you think this is bad, I gotta work with him all day, folks!”
Once in I actually had about an hour before the plane would begin boarding. So I started reading for my classes that start in two weeks. I ended up finishing up my readings for the first week of class on the flight. Well, for my first class anyway – the syllabus for Quantitative Analysis hasn’t even been released yet…
Speaking of the flight – my god, whomever thought that christmas day would be a quiet one for travelling was dead wrong. The flights were both packed and the airlines had to turn away about ten people on stand-by for the first one.
When I finally reached Columbus though I was greeted by a ghost airport. I figured I’d be able to find my parents (who were picking me up) quite easily – but this still managed to be confusing since the Columbus airport has four different levels (outside security) for some reason.
(ps – did I confuse anyone else with my post yesterday?)
