Green Junkie Living » nervous http://greenjunkieliving.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 i’m still here (connecticut) http://greenjunkieliving.com/smile/im-still-here http://greenjunkieliving.com/smile/im-still-here#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 14:41:50 +0000 Olivia http://olivialindquist.com/blog/?p=13 A bit before 1am last night, MB and I finally got our tickets to Seoul. And this time, I’m pretty sure they’re actual tickets, not bogus reservations that expired and did us no good.

We popped on Expedia, found some reasonably priced flights with just one connection, entered our boss’s credit card information, and hit book. A few seconds later I got a confirmation notice that I’m leaving JFK on Wednesday morning, connecting at LAX, and then flying into Incheon (Seoul airport) to arrive Thursday evening local time. MB got a notice saying that flight was no longer available.

Darnit! My first thought was: Does this mean I’m getting to Seoul first? Not ok!

Once again, though, MB to the rescue. He wound up getting a flight out Tuesday morning, arriving Wednesday evening, and will come meet me at Incheon when I arrive.

Huge bummer that we won’t be flying together, but at least we’ll finally be there so we can get settled and start the really fun process of working thirteen hours days. The party never stops around here.

Retweet]]> http://greenjunkieliving.com/smile/im-still-here/feed 0 It’s the final countdown http://greenjunkieliving.com/smile/its-the-final-countdown http://greenjunkieliving.com/smile/its-the-final-countdown#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 16:43:34 +0000 Olivia http://olivialindquist.com/blog/?p=3 In three and a half days, I board a plane to Korea. The excitement about being in a new place is outweighing my thoughts of What was I thinking?!, but just by a hair. Mostly I’m just ready to be there and settled, finally, and be done with these weeks of packing, sorting, errands, and goodbyes. Especially the goodbyes. I still have a bunch of not-so-fun stuff to do before leaving (figure out what I’m doing with my phone, talk pharmacists into giving me a year’s worth of refills, email my accountant, pay a few more bills, etc.), but I get some great stuff in these next 80 or so hours, too. Mexican food with Anders, lunch with Ragu, visit with Schlubbs, dinner with Snacks. Friday dinner with family and Glenn, and Sunday lunch (at SFO) with Melinda, her much-anticipated fella, and my darling MB.

After all that, I get to board another plane for the 13 hour flight to Seoul, where I will enter a culture whose alphabet I don’t know, customs I’m trying to grasp, and (gluten-ful) soy sauce is king. Jet lag will be awful, and the hours at work will be long, but I’m excited about what’s ahead. 25, no kids, no mortgage, not even a car or a dog. Just me, a wonderful man, and a serious case of the travel bug. It’s got to be good. Right?

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