*Sproing* Accomplishment

I have now successfully (without a single wrong turn) driven home from Brandeis all by myself, without a navigator or anyone else in the car. And many parts of it really weren't too bad. And it only took me a touch over 2 1/2 hours- Dad usually does it in 2 hours 15 minutes, and when I checked the computer directions so I could go over the route with zodiacmg (who has ust recently taken off on his flight home), that claimed it would take 2 hours and 20 minutes. And as I took a short rest break along the way- I think I managed to even keep up at appropriate highway speeds. (OK, people were zooming by me- but I was going Over the Speed limit. So there!)

So now I've gotten home, and no one else is home yet. The parents won't be home for another hour and a goodly chunk of change, and my sister is at work as well- I don't know when she gets home. I wonder if I should call the parents, or at least a parent, to let them know that I'm home and safe. I talked to Dad during my rest break to check in, so he knows I should be home around now. I'm not sure how aware Mom is of it (this is possibly better- especially if she'd be worrying otherwise), but she might want to know I'm home. But today's Tuesday- makes it harder to call her. Dunno, maybe I'll just hang around and wait for them to get home.

I have 2 sets of comments on my thesis draft to start working with to do revisions, but I think today's accomplishment means that I can hang around and read junk for a while first. Maybe I'll do some work tonight after the folks are asleep. Tomorrow there won't be time.

Being home seems quite surreal- once I got off the highway, the drive here felt more like I was coming to visit, rather than coming Home. We'll see how things feel once people come home, and over the course of the vacation...

*Sproing* Accomplishment

I have now successfully (without a single wrong turn) driven home from Brandeis all by myself, without a navigator or anyone else in the car. And many parts of it really weren't too bad. And it only took me a touch over 2 1/2 hours- Dad usually does it in 2 hours 15 minutes, and when I checked the computer directions so I could go over the route with zodiacmg (who has ust recently taken off on his flight home), that claimed it would take 2 hours and 20 minutes. And as I took a short rest break along the way- I think I managed to even keep up at appropriate highway speeds. (OK, people were zooming by me- but I was going Over the Speed limit. So there!)

So now I've gotten home, and no one else is home yet. The parents won't be home for another hour and a goodly chunk of change, and my sister is at work as well- I don't know when she gets home. I wonder if I should call the parents, or at least a parent, to let them know that I'm home and safe. I talked to Dad during my rest break to check in, so he knows I should be home around now. I'm not sure how aware Mom is of it (this is possibly better- especially if she'd be worrying otherwise), but she might want to know I'm home. But today's Tuesday- makes it harder to call her. Dunno, maybe I'll just hang around and wait for them to get home.

I have 2 sets of comments on my thesis draft to start working with to do revisions, but I think today's accomplishment means that I can hang around and read junk for a while first. Maybe I'll do some work tonight after the folks are asleep. Tomorrow there won't be time.

Being home seems quite surreal- once I got off the highway, the drive here felt more like I was coming to visit, rather than coming Home. We'll see how things feel once people come home, and over the course of the vacation...