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12/7/09 22:06I brought my laptop with me. With the new battery. New battery appears to refuse to recharge, despite all the tricks and jiggering I can come up with on the fly. Therefore, laptop (upon which I had hoped to get some work done)is sitting there doing nothing useful. As I'm still proofreading, this isn't a huge problem. The writing I'm getting done (1-2000 words a day) I'm doing longhand in my journaling notebook. But I was really hoping to do some data entry/writing on the trip home.
If I ever get to go home, that is. The date for the return-to-camp bus has still not been set (initially they said "probably Wednesday." Now it's "either Thursday or Saturday." That's a big either if you have, say, a return ticket to San Francisco for Thursday at 2pm...). And while I revel in being in the Land of My Birth, the fact that Avocado doesn't have her cell phone here (and is understandably a little anxious about being out of radio-contact, even as she pines to explore and be all teenage and autonomous) rather constricts my movements.
I know. Such First World problems, and will I please shut up?
Today we got to Barnes and Noble (more books for A), Forever 21 (dress for camp dances, unaccountably not thought of when she left for camp) and Target before we came home to hide in the A/C and eat leftover Chinese. Tomorrow the girl has a movie date; I try to get hold of the pediatrician for a possible appointment; we maybe find out whether I have to arrange for a change of flight and somewhere else to stay (as the long-suffering owner of this apartment is coming in on Friday and would very much like to have his home back!).
It's a rich, full life. Again.
If I ever get to go home, that is. The date for the return-to-camp bus has still not been set (initially they said "probably Wednesday." Now it's "either Thursday or Saturday." That's a big either if you have, say, a return ticket to San Francisco for Thursday at 2pm...). And while I revel in being in the Land of My Birth, the fact that Avocado doesn't have her cell phone here (and is understandably a little anxious about being out of radio-contact, even as she pines to explore and be all teenage and autonomous) rather constricts my movements.
I know. Such First World problems, and will I please shut up?
Today we got to Barnes and Noble (more books for A), Forever 21 (dress for camp dances, unaccountably not thought of when she left for camp) and Target before we came home to hide in the A/C and eat leftover Chinese. Tomorrow the girl has a movie date; I try to get hold of the pediatrician for a possible appointment; we maybe find out whether I have to arrange for a change of flight and somewhere else to stay (as the long-suffering owner of this apartment is coming in on Friday and would very much like to have his home back!).
It's a rich, full life. Again.