3 days of Exclamations: My personal journal from Sunday January 8, to Wednesday January 11.<\/p>\n
Sunday January 8th, 2012:<\/strong> Monday:<\/strong> Tuesday:<\/strong> Wednesday:<\/strong> 3 days of Exclamations: My personal journal from Sunday January 8, to Wednesday January 11. Sunday January 8th, 2012: See Delaney! + Monday: 8am: Welcome to Foothill College, Los Altos, CA! + 8:01am: I locked my keys in the car! – 8:30am: Ack, classes are starting today?! – 8:45am: Quarters instead of semesters? What does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSee Delaney! +<\/p>\n
\n8am: Welcome to Foothill College, Los Altos, CA! +
\n8:01am: I locked my keys in the car! –
\n8:30am: Ack, classes are starting today?! –
\n8:45am: Quarters instead of semesters? What does that mean?!
\n9am: With quarters I can squeeze in Bio prereq, Anat & Phys 1, Anat & Phys 2 by July! + +
\n10am: Bio 14 class is fun and easy! +
\n12am: Bio 14 lab is fun and easy! +
\n3pm: Foothill campus is really pretty! +
\n4pm: Argh, I need Bio, Anat & Phys 1, 2, and 3<\/strong>, which would stretch into the fall!- – –
\n5pm: The college police can’t slim-jim my car! –
\n6pm: I’m #4 on the Chemistry waitlist! +
\n7pm: The Chemistry teacher is really bad! –
\n8pm: I won’t get into Chemistry anyway! –
\n8pm: The AAA guy opens my car in 30 seconds flat! +
\n9pm: Drinking at Lucky 13 with David M! +
\n1:15am: Getting harassed by the bartender to leave and drive drunk home! – – –
\n2:30am: Home! Not driving drunk! Still angry at the Lucky 13 bartender! + + –<\/p>\n
\n3pm: Welcome to the College of San Mateo! +
\n4pm: Drop in counseling says “You don’t need us, everything is online”! – +
\n5pm: Looking online, Contra Costa Community College’s no-prereq Anatomy class has 1 seat open and no waitlist! + +
\n5:01pm: I apply to CCCC!
\n5:30pm: I am accepted to CCCC! +
\n6:30pm I’ve figured out their website! +
\n6:35pm: Their registration computer says they have no open seats in Anatomy and their waitlist is full! – – –
\nFrustration sets in, I want to get off this crazy roller coaster! – –
\n8pm: Dinner with Delaney! +
\n10:30pm I’m home to pack for an 8:30am flight!
\nmidnight: As always, I get pre-flight “stage fright”, packing and procrastinating until 3:30am! –<\/p>\n
\nCat-nap til 6:30am!
\nI leave 3 minutes late and miss my train! –
\nThere is another train in 15 minutes! +
\nContinental is now United?!
\nThe TSA random bomb sniffing lady finds a 3′ whip in my bag and the supervisor calls it a weapon! – –
\n(I have visions of “We’re taking this plane to Cuba! [crack!]” with my signal whip) + +
\nThey tell me to mail it or check it and send me packing! –
\nI repack and try to get it through a second time!
\nIt occurs to me I might have, I don’t know, just committed a felony! –
\nThey send me packing again! – (+)
\nI missed my flight! –
\nChecking my bag will cost $25 each way, but if I mail it I won’t have it! –
\nI repack and go through another line entirely… and go right through! + +
\nEgg and cheese croissants in the airport are $10! – –
\nA real breakfast is going to cost me $20???? – – –
\nBoudin Bakery clam chowder in a bread bowl is $7! +
\nI am the VERY last standby passenger allowed on the plane! +
\nNap time! + + +<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"