Back and Forth Across the Pond

by Steve (taken from his Facebook notes) I planned and got up early. The program said to be there by 7:30a, but that it gets busy so I wanted to be there by 7:00 as our friend (Melanie) was meeting us there then. So I did my morning chores, packed the things I needed, showered and dressed and I was ready. At just before 6:00a my wife (Deanne) and I loaded the car and set off. We had to make a stop to pick up some stuff that we forgot from a store. Traffic was light, but i guess I got the travel time wrong, as by 7:00a we were still 10-15 minutes away, and traffic was starting to get thicker. But no worries, so I was going to be 15 mins late. About 10 minutes later we were leaving the interstate and then stopped in bumper-to-bumper traffic, crawling, crawling. Damn all those other race goers. At 7:55a, I was beginning to panic and to make it worse, i had to pee something fierce. We could see where we had to be, but we couldn't reach it in the car! Deanne, bless her cotton socks, tol...

It's official - I'm going to England to do research for my master's thesis. Technically, it's been official for about a week, because I bought my airplane tickets last Saturday. But I think it's taken this long for it to really start sinking in. The whole trip is weird in a couple of ways: 1. I'm going to be in England without Steve. That's just . . . wrong. I'm used to sitting back and letting him run the show when we're on his home turf. To be in the driver's seat (so to speak - not getting behind a right-hand steering wheel this trip) is admittedly unnerving. I know I'll be fine. I also know it will take awhile for me to get settled with the notion of Steve not being there. 2. I've not been apart from Steve for this long since before we got married. Ten weeks apart from his is very unsettling and I try not to think about it. Of course, if he gets one of the myriad jobs he's applying for, we'll be apart for even longer than that...