Back in NOLA

Well, I suppose I ought to go ahead and get this entered. I left late from Wichita because they were having light issues on the plane (emergency lights wouldn't come on). Naturally, no one mentioned this until the guys had already put me on the aisle chair and taken my chair down. Slightly uncomfortable, but I got to lean on the leg of a cutie patootie for 20 minutes, so I reckon I shouldn't complain too loudly. Despite the late departure, I still made my NO connection. A friend of my friend Erika was on the NO flight, and he recognized me. I was not thrilled (he's one of those guys who doesn't know what he wants, so he's jerked my friend around quite a bit), but I was polite nevertheless. Our family rules: (1) If we like you, we tease you. (2) If we don't like you, we don't talk to you. (3) If we really don't like you, we are polite to you.

Sat next to an adorably sweet couple who were on their way to NO for Southern Decadence, and we all (the entire plane) sat on the tarmac for about half an hour when the airport shut down because of weather. At the captain's announcement, about half the plane loudly expressed their frustration. My philosophy? There was lightning bouncing all over the place and we were sitting in a metal tube -- I'm OK with sitting on the tarmac for a bit. My seatmates and I took naps.

After arriving in NO, finding my friends, and gathering all my stuff (carry-on bag, laptop, wheelchair, two suitcases, oxygen concentrator -- oh, and Reba), we went for a late supper at Applebee's. They screwed up my and Marlo's orders which made me want to cry because it was almost 11:00 and I hadn't eaten since about 1:00. Stupid people.

Saturday Marlo and William took me to Whole Foods and Walmart for grocery shopping ($150 at Walmart -- ACK!). Sunday I bummed around here doing nothing. Today I read a chapter in stats and interviewed two potential attendants. And now it's almost time to go to bed. Night y'all.