the bad part

so, i was supposed to leave at 7:30 thursday night. edgar's dad dropped us off and we go to check in and the guy is like yeah, that flight has been delayed long enough that you will miss your connecting flight and you won't get to jacksonville tonight. i can put you on a flight for 10am tomorrow, arriving after 3pm in jax or i can switch your flight to delta (our flight was united) and you'll leave at 5:15am with a final arrival time of 9:30. ok, we did that. so, i spent the night at edgar's since we were leaving so early. we get to the airport at 4am. we get to the delta counter and the woman is like sorry, united did it wrong so i have your reservation but its marked as unpaid and he didn't give you flight coupons. so, we had to go wait for united to open at 4:30 and fix their mistake (which they swear they didn't make) so - we have our boarding tickets and go through security - and we have gotten marked or whatever so even though we didn't set anything off, we get frisked. who can say no to a 4:45am fondling from a strange woman, though? AND it turned out that she knew my extended family - basically a second mother to my cousin chris.

after all that, getting the rest of the way to jax was fine.

on the way home - i was scheduled to fly out of jax at 7:30 on tuesday thought delta with an hour lay over in atlanta, arriving in rochester at midnight. so - everything goes completely smoothly getting to the gate in jax. then they announce - sorry, the stewardessess are running late so the flight is delayed - by over 20 minutes. then, atlanta made us circle for a while. we were supposed to arrive at 8:49, we didn't land until 9:20. so, i had to go from one end of the atlanta airport to the other. i get to may connecting flight and the woman (smiling) says sorry, flights are closed 10 minutes before take off so you missed it! the plane is still on the groun - AND its a little puddle hopper so you have to walk out on the run way to get to it anyway, not one of those big arm thingys! so, i ask her what i'm supposed to do - she directs me to a counter a couple of gates back. i tell the lady there i missed my flight. she looks me up in the system and hands me a new ticket and is like ok, your flight takes off at 8am tomorrow morning. i asked her what i was supposed to do until then and she looks at me with attitude and asks me why i missed my flight. i start getting upset and shes like don't get like that to me, i don't work for delta - you need to go (back where i came from) and talk to them. so, some aggressive discussion later i got my voucher for the crowne plaza and 2 $7 food vouchers later - i got to the hotel got some food and went to sleep. i was up at 6am on wed. so i could take a shower and get on the shuttle and be at the airport for my 8:12 flight. again, getting there and through security was easy. the plane still hadn't arrived by ten of 8. the plane gets there a little after 8 - so, they are going to board just as soon as they can! the board with this info changes from 8:12 to 8:40 to 9 to 9:15 to 9:20 with very little comment from delta. we finally take off for our 2 hour flight with an estimated arrival time of 11:45 - as opposed to the 10:26 scheduled time. so, i've called jessie to let her know i'm running late and to just give her the flight # so she could check online when she gets up to see when it arrives instead of waiting at the airport. i land and call her - and wake her up. apparently she went back to sleep after our first convo thinking she wouldn't really fall asleep and she'd get up in a little while. but she fell back asleep completely and didn't wake up until my phone call. so yeah - i was in a very unpleasant state by the time i got to work.

AND THEN! there was a big (really stupid) fight between dee and gen and some of the usual petiness between courtney and eun while i was gone so everyone was not speaking to everyone by the time i got to the lab yesterday. i think things are starting to work themselves out but - yesterday was rough.