Last night was bizzare. No sleep makes for a loopybean. Lauren picked me up at 430, and we headed to the airport. We made pretty good time until we hit Terminal A. It took us ove 20 minutes to get from there to Southwest. Lauren never even made it to the curb; I just hopped out and ran for it. The ticket counter line wasn't bad, but the security lines were outrageous. I made it to the plane 5 minutes after it was supposed to leave. Fortunately for me, the crew was also stuck in that line. Once on the plane I tried to nap, and I failed miserably. I did get half of "Now, More, Again" bye Elizabeth Wurtzel read though. The whole business in Chicago, from shuttle pick up to shuttle drop off at the airport took 20 minutes. All the friday-before-christmas bullshit...for 20 MINUTES! My fingerprints haven't changed! Shouldn't they be on file from last year? Whatever. The shuttle gets me back to MDW, and there's a semi truck pinned between the departure ramp and the overpass. Smoooooth. Needless to say, I took pictures. I tried to make it over to see Nicholas, but the line to the ticket counter was like Walt Disney's wet dream. When I found the back of the line, I realized I was standing in the parking garage! Unfortunately my waiting in line was all in vain, because they'd printed my return boarding pass in PHL. Oops! The flight home was pretty smooth, and while I waited for Lauren I got to say hi to a few people I've missed. Them being excited makes me excited to be returning. It will be sad to leave the Picture People, as I've really grown to love the Montgomery Mall store, but there's no advancement and no benefits. That's life though. Nothing says I can't go visit them all! Hopefully I can get Cat or Erich to fly the baby in before I leave so he can get his picture taken. (Pardon my digression.) Lauren and I stopped at Wawa on the way home, and I finally got my mac and cheese! It was delicious! We ate watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

Now we're headed out to look for a new coffee pot. I was going to go with Lauren to pick up Doug, but I think I've had enough airports for one day and my migraine's trying to come back. Sorry, Doug! Welcome to PHL!

On that note...I'll be back a bit later for more interesting tidbits...

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