eustaciavye77

In what turned out to be a futile action, I decided to check out the plane fares to Minneapolis again. I want to be there for Greyhame's birthday which is at the end of April. The non-stop fares are still too high for me to manage, and anything other than a non-stop flight makes a 2 day trip pratically worthless. If I'm only going to be someplace for 40 hours at best, I'd rather not spend 7 hours in transit each way. 7 hours in transit means 2 doses of the meds that knock me out on the plane which means spending most of those 40 hours recuperating from medication, only to take it again and get back on the plane :P

I could theoretically arrange for my Friday shift that week to be covered, not have therapy that thursday, and fly out Thursday instead, but I don't think my schoolwork will allow that. I have too many papers due around that time, it being near the end of the semester. If I thought I was going to have time for a 4 day trip, I'd take the cheaper 2 legs-each-way flight, leave on Thursday or maybe even late wednesday night and come back on Sunday night and deal with the medication haze. But I just don't know this far in advance that I will have that kind of free time. 2 days I can always manage, 4 is a bit tricky.

Of course the truth is I don't have the money for the cheaper flight either, but I could find it somehow, or yank it out of savings if i had to. It's my best friend's birthday and all. But the other flight is more cash than I can comfortably remove from what is effectively my "oh shit" fund.

Well my semester finishes shortly after Greyhame's birthday, maybe I could do a trip then. Once I'm done with school, four days away isn't a big deal. Or I could just wait for him to come back for the summer and throw him a belated party

Bleh. Graduate and move back already you big dork!
18 months and counting...