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...
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...
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