Travel Day Thursday

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 Part One:

My trip to England is starting to feel real, finally, which is ridiculous because as I write this, I’m literally on the second and final leg of my journey to England. By the time I’m able to make this post, I’ll be in England. One of two things will be true by that time. Either I’ll be in the airport waiting on my family to come get me or I’ll be at the apartment with my family mostly settled and battling the desire to nap the sleep of the jet lagged and exhausted.

It’s an overnight flight which makes you think that you’d get to England and be ready to just run about like you would any other morning. Maybe for some people that’s true. I used to tell myself that I was going to stay up until it was a reasonable time for bed, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually managed it. I also sleep for a good portion of the flight too, but it never seems to matter.

Part Two:

Part of me wants to sleep, like what I usually do. And part of me knows that it’s technically only 1030 right now, I’ve only just had dinner, and I already napped on the other flight. Also, I think that maybe in my head, I’m thinking about landing in England at about 730 am. Thinking that way makes me feel like I have a good eight or nine hours before I’m going to be off this plane meaning that I can stay up a bit longer and still get a full night’s sleep on this plane. Now I am going to land between 7 and 8, but on the east coast, that’s more like between 2 am and 3. Not the same thing at all. I’ve only got two hours or so before they serve “breakfast.” If I have that long considering how it’s now almost 11 (I had to pee, the bathroom struggle is real on a plane y’all).

But I’m set up now where I have “Rampage” on the inflight entertainment playing—I know it’s a terrible movie, but it’s The Rock and it’s amusing—and my iPad on the tray table in front of me. I have a small bottle of wine, they serve it complimentary on this flight guys, and I mean, this kicks ass. The food was pretty good, the dessert was tasty as hell.  It’s been good times. The worst part was the fact that we had to wait about an hour to actually take off, and I used that time to read a novella.

I guess you can tell I’m torn between watching the rest of this dumb movie while I write and napping.

The good news is I think I did manage to finish my Dolls story. There are probably some details I need to add here and there, but it’s complete. It’s gonna be obnoxious trying to post it using my iPad to edit and post the story, but it is what it is.

I should really try to nap. I can finish this movie when they serve breakfast.