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So we have to be on a plane at 9:30, which means getting to the airport at 7:30, which means getting on a bus at 6:30, which means leaving here at 6... and it's midnight now and our laundry isn't done yet. Argh.

My sickness has taken on this great pattern now, where I wake up in the morning and am a little icky but feel okay, and then I go to work and still feel okay, and I get through most of the day going, "Hey, cool, my sore throat is better, look, no medicine" and then around 8 or 9pm my throat gets really sore and I start coughing and by the time I need to sleep it really sucks and then I can't sleep through the night without waking up to take medicine and stuff. Blah. So maybe my throat will wake me up at 5am anyway.

With the whole anthrax scare thing going on, it is a bit disturbing to have a prolonged cough and sore throat that have such odd behaviour, but I'm not sure what to do about it anyway.

Circuitry is 90% done, all I have to do is cascading row removal, wild card pieces, and stagnant pieces. I wonder if I can even finish it this weekend, if I have time to sit around on someone's computer while up in Boston. Probably not. Times like this where I need a laptop... and a cell phone... but they're so rare that I really dunno when I'll bother getting one. I had this idea, anyway, that it would be cool to generalize a falling-pieces-game game engine and then i could write just about any of my falling pieces games in Java pretty easily.

oh, fuck. We were doing laundry but two of the dryers malfunctioned, and we combined our stuff into one dryer, but it was too much stuff and it didn't dry. I'll never get to sleep at this rate...

well, we are here

I'm about to fall over and go to sleep, so I'll keep this short.

Paranoia aside, 2 out of 4 flights are over. We got to the airport 2 hours early, and ended up spending an hour and a half waiting around for our flight. William from Whizbang was also there waiting for a flight, but he was going to Beijing for a week for a conference or something. Anyway, I slept through the first flight, a puddle-jumper to DC on a plane that had like 10 passengers tops. The second flight was on a 737. We had these two nutso flight attendant guys. The first was doing the "flight safety demonstration" as a comedy act, including pantomimes of swimming in the water and looking like an idiot who can't figure out how the seatbelt works. He got a round of applause afterwards for making everyone laugh. (He also yelled things like "get out of the aisle! make way for two skinny guys and a big fat drink cart!") The second flight attendant dude turned out to be fluent in Japanese. I'm not kidding. I was studying my kanji book because of the JLPT, and so he was like "Ah, studiyng Japanese I see. *covers up a kanji* What's this one?" I'm like "Eki. It means station." "*covers another* And this?" "Uh, it's 'ei', which sort of stands for England, like in eigo.." and he's like "Yeah, and it means hero by itself. I'll be back later to give you a written test!" When he came back later he said, "Nihongo no kaiwa dekimasu ka?" and so I ended up talking to him in Japanese for about 5 minutes. turns out he studied in college and in Japan for a year. It was sort of freaky. I wish more random gaijin would speak Japanese to me.

Anyway, we got off the second plane and made our way to the bookstore Eli wanted to go to, and bought some books, and then we met up with Ben at Alewife station, and we got sushi dinner with Ben and Tara and Regan and Greg. It was really good sushi dinner! We went to the hotel the wedding is taking place in, because there was a pool party, but I am sick, so I couldn't swim. I saw a lot of people, that was cool. Then because Tara is also sick and can't swim, we went over to this really good ice cream place that I am blanking on the name of. It had really good ice cream. It was a farm or something, and we got to pet the goats that were around there.

I guess I'm not keeping this short.

We came back here afterwards. Ben and Tara have two cats and a dog and all of them are really affectionate and playful. I got to play Typing of the Dead on the Dreamcast - they actually have these keyboard thingies so you type words to defeat these zombies. I was like, "But if the zombies were type-safe, this wouldn't be a problem, right?" We also got to meet Tara's boyfriend Dano, who is sitting behind me and Tara as we type up a storm.

Anyway, it's late, and we only had 4 hours of sleep last night, so I am calling it a night. Yay.