waffels? chocolate?

Transcript of Email Received 7/29/2005:

Dear customer,
We are truly sorry for cancellation of your flight. Smart Wings were forced to cancel your reservation regarding flights QS026/27 on the route Amsterdam-Prague. We are offering you any other available flight within destination, of course without any charges.This cancellation is in compliance with our General Conditions of Carriageand EU Regulation no. 261/2004. Again, we apologize for canceling your flight and for any inconvenience if occurred. We hope you will choose Smart Wings again.
-- Your Smart Wings team

Ok cool. They cancelled the flight. Good thing there are absolutely NO OTHER FLIGHTS FROM AMSTERDAM TO PRAGUE .

Mel and Sasha went into disaster mode and decided that we are going to take a 2 hour train from Amsterdam to Brussels where we will arrive at 11:30 am. Spend a few hours in the city, see some sights, eat some chocolate and then take a 5:40 flight to Prague.

In summary: disaster averted. itinerary ammended.

5 days... oh shit.

who flops four of a kind?

...that would be me

I have pocket nines.
I raise before the flop.
Flop comes "9" "9" and "something that doesn't effect the story"
I go all in.
Jordan calls.

amazing.

ps - I changed it so now you can comment on my blog.... yeah you know you want to.

pps - 8 days...

so much to do.....

....so little time.

countdown: 12 days.

i've been trying to get my life together so i can get out of the country, but it's proving to be far more difficult than originally anticipated... it's amazing how after being home for three months, and more or less doing NOTHING, i now have a bagillion things to take care of...

to calm myself, i went to a travel website: www.magellans.com
It was only mildly helpful, until i noticed that there was a "travel by desination section" That was exciting. I'm happy to report that when i typed in Italy what came up, in addition to electronic translators and street maps, was this: http://www.magellans.com/store/Accessories___Picnic_GearFP598?Args yay for portable wine glasses....

in other news:
my sister comes home from florence this afternoon. yesss
i don't care if you think i'm predictable, i'm glad we had this talk.
and, most importantly, Dane Cook wins for funniest man alive. http://www.danecook.com/press/rollingstone.html

that is all.

...much love, linds....

hi...

question #1 -- where did the summer go?

They say time flies, but this is kinda out of hand. I'm leaving the country in 16 days - what? craziness. A few weeks ago, someone told me that i'm the kind of person they'd expect would keep a blog. I don't know exactly what that means but a) i think it's a compliment and b) it's almost certainly true....

I will be spending the fall semester in Rome (amazing) and i'm going to attempt to document the situation.

But before Rome, I'm off to explore europe with quite possibly two of my favorite people ever: Melanie Mason and Sasha Salinger. Dublin. Edinburgh. Amsterdam. Prague. Vienna. Budapest. Except for Edinburgh, I've never been to any of these cities. We're doing backpacking/hostel style traveling. Not gonna lie, I'm almost the most excited for the hydrofoil trip down the Danube haha... score. (http://www.budapesthotels.com/touristguide/mahart.asp)


I'm off... but in classic, appropriately corny, "me" fashion... ill leave you with a quote (or two):

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round ... do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature ... Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau,

"Not all who wander are lost."
J. R. R. Tolkien


...much love...