Let the Day Begin
Nov. 26th, 2015 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Term papers are done. Powered through one, just pure brainstorming. Celebrated by setting up the PS4 and playing Star Wars Battlefront. Should have celebrated properly, but there was a Faulknerian idiot man-child mucking things up.
My cohort ... I did not expect the sense of camaraderie that has developed. This little clique of seven has come together - Katy, Marina, Hera (I kid you not), Mike, Sam, Stephen, me. I'm far and away the oldest - by at least 18 years, but no one cares. We just fit and work together really well, from Environmental on Monday afternoon to post-Biostatistics drinks on Thursday night. I didn't expect this, and it is fantastic.
Thanksgiving break. Offices were closed yesterday, instead of the expected/planned half-day. I would have slept in, but I can't, so there was reading. For entertainment, not for class! A nearly-forgotten pleasure. Today, the holiday itself, a good time. I hung around Louisville until around 2PM and then lit out for Liberty. Took a short impulse detour to visit my grandparents' grave, talk to them for a bit. Good choice on my part. Rounded the last curve on 1615 before the road to Mom&Dad's and saw my brother's ridiculous pickup heading out the other way. Just missed having to be in the same place as whats-her-name. Yay.
A little drive with Dad is in the cards for tomorrow. Seems that there's an engine at the UPS terminal in Louisville that needs to be in Atlanta, and one in Atlanta that needs to be in Louisville. So, we're going to handle this. The things you learn - because of the way that UPS loads its air freighters, it's financially better for them to pay Dad $X to transport the engine than to put it on one of their own planes, even if said plane had the space. The engine weighs nothing - relative to the weight of the truck anyway - and has to be carried in the lowest-drag trailer Dad has, so fuel costs are about as low as they can be. Pretty neat.
Also, sign that I am and always will be a trucker's kid at heart - I can straight-faced refer to going from Louisville to Atlanta and back as "a little drive."
My cohort ... I did not expect the sense of camaraderie that has developed. This little clique of seven has come together - Katy, Marina, Hera (I kid you not), Mike, Sam, Stephen, me. I'm far and away the oldest - by at least 18 years, but no one cares. We just fit and work together really well, from Environmental on Monday afternoon to post-Biostatistics drinks on Thursday night. I didn't expect this, and it is fantastic.
Thanksgiving break. Offices were closed yesterday, instead of the expected/planned half-day. I would have slept in, but I can't, so there was reading. For entertainment, not for class! A nearly-forgotten pleasure. Today, the holiday itself, a good time. I hung around Louisville until around 2PM and then lit out for Liberty. Took a short impulse detour to visit my grandparents' grave, talk to them for a bit. Good choice on my part. Rounded the last curve on 1615 before the road to Mom&Dad's and saw my brother's ridiculous pickup heading out the other way. Just missed having to be in the same place as whats-her-name. Yay.
A little drive with Dad is in the cards for tomorrow. Seems that there's an engine at the UPS terminal in Louisville that needs to be in Atlanta, and one in Atlanta that needs to be in Louisville. So, we're going to handle this. The things you learn - because of the way that UPS loads its air freighters, it's financially better for them to pay Dad $X to transport the engine than to put it on one of their own planes, even if said plane had the space. The engine weighs nothing - relative to the weight of the truck anyway - and has to be carried in the lowest-drag trailer Dad has, so fuel costs are about as low as they can be. Pretty neat.
Also, sign that I am and always will be a trucker's kid at heart - I can straight-faced refer to going from Louisville to Atlanta and back as "a little drive."
