I leave tomorrow. I’m leaving. The. Country.
As I was separating everything I want to pack into piles, Lil Bro came in my room to observe. He then spent an uncomfortable amount of time trying to teach me to flick my pocket knife open in a sweeping jabbing motion. To do this is simple: I just need to stop being left-handed and caring at all about my nails. Honestly I am bringing a knife to open challenging food packaging and to pry my case off my cell phone to remove my sim card. Lil Bro advised me to perhaps consider buying pepper spray, and then he ambled out to check on his frozen chicken Alfredo.
Food was also on my mind and was my first item to pack. I am worried every meal in Europe will be covered in vinegar, so about a fourth of my suitcase is filled with foodstuff.
Did you spot the ketchup packet? I might bring more of those. You just never know.
Then it was time to color code my psychoses.
Blue for every day, light blue for trouble, white for emergencies, and so on.
Next I checked Pinterest and learned the right way to roll/origami my way through the heap of black clothes I’m bringing. The eight black shirts I packed are rolled into torpedoes lining the bottom of my suitcase. Rolling got a bit tedious and unrealistic–I’m not going to pack this painstakingly every time I need to catch a train. So then I just forced everything else on top of the row of rolled shirts.
That bra is a 36DD for scale.
Today around 6PM, I tried to check-in to my flight, which leaves tomorrow at 5:30PM. After entering my flight information, the Aer Lingus website rejected my check-in with this gem:
As this flight is departing in more than 30 hours, if you choose to check in now for this flight there is a charge for seat allocation (unless previously purchased seats). Alternatively you can check in online for this flight within 30 hours of flight departure time and avail of free seat allocation.
First of all, can we please take a moment to deal with the phrasing “avail of free seat allocation”?
Now, I have recently become mediocre at math, so I know this message is nonsense. I checked back again a few minutes ago–10PM–but the same malarkey manifested. I am displeased and unimpressed. The FAQs said that a transatlantic flight is eligible for check in 24 hours prior to takeoff, but the website still failed this test. I would like to avail of free bullshit. I’ve been spending so much time worrying about how to navigate the ridiculosities of the Eurail system that I completely forgot to fret over the plane ride.
I must remember that “in nonsense is strength.” (Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut)
It might serve you well to remember that, too, when reading these posts.
As for reading, I read a few poems in Imitations by Robert Lowell before returning it unfinished to the library.
Now I am going to lie down and start the long process of saying good bye to my bed.
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