i’m in a foul mood this morning. why? too many reasons.
on monday i tried to buy a plane ticket home. the combination of website interacting with bank didn’t work as it should have, and aforementioned website ended up putting 5 temporary authorizations on my account (effectively overdrafting my account and leaving me with $0.00 available balance for 24 hours while they fixed their mistake). while i was waiting for the bank to correct things, the price of the plane tickets rose. and i think it’s absolutely freaking absurd that i can’t fly from houston to charlotte at a reasonable time of day for less than $300. GRRR!
i want to leave houston and fly to charlotte on december 20, but i need to work at least half a day that day, so i can’t leave earlier than, say, 1:00 (it would really depend on which houston airport the ticket is out of). and i want to fly back to houston on december 29, anytime. if anyone is bored and needs something to do, and can find me a plane ticket that fits those requirements for under $300, please let me know and i’ll love you forever. sheesh. i can fly to fricking atlanta those days for $208, but another 200 miles is another $100 at least. i can fly to sao paolo, brazil this weekend for $308, but i can’t fly to charlotte. i hate the airline industry.
so that’s one reason for my foul mood. two, we had a softball double header last night, and we won one and lost one, and i played like crap. i was embarassed for myself about the way i played. i sucked. royally. i couldn’t catch. i couldn’t hit. the only thing i could do successfully was keep score. i sucked.
three, i’m tired.
four, somehow i ran my 3 miles really slowly this morning, even though i was feeling good and my shins were hurting less than they have been. i want to get faster, and it’s just not happening. i think i must be doing something wrong.
the only thing i have going for me is that i did well on the impromptu geography quizzes my group did after reading in a cnn article that 87% of 18-24 year old americans can’t point out iraq on a map, and 70% can’t even point out new jersey. on our quiz, i correctly identified 1) all 50 states, 2) all of western europe and about half of eastern europe, 3) more than half of a map that covered from syria to papua new guinea and southern russia to northern australia 4) about half of south and central america. actually, we all did pretty well…though we will be teasing becca for a while about not knowing her midwestern states. 😉
