This entire day, I kept my eye on my brother's flight status. I did other things, but I was always on the alert when it came to that. Heathrow's lack of adequate snow and ice maintenance had me on edge the whole day. What if the flight got canceled again? What if I had to meet him in Paris? Would I have been able to get one of the train tickets refunded? Would he know street signs aren't on top of poles like they are in the States? Etc etc etc.
This morning, I started writing my film essay. Finally. I've been putting that off for a really really long time. And then I started writing and it flowed like a paper should for a while before my attention deviated as it's wont to do over here. It doesn't help that this entire time, I keep thinking my stay is one giant vacation. Maybe I should have gone to libraries sooner because they actually helped me study instead of goof around. But I goof around quite a bit at home too, but back home I have more work to do. Oh the cycle.
Anyway, after getting ready and starting my essay, I made leftover pasta, and then I made the pizza Becca gave me before she left London. I ate two-thirds of that pizza and that's when I moved my cookies across the room so I wouldn't have easy access to them.
Vanessa stopped by then because she was leaving for Christmas and worried that she wouldn't see me again. She asked for my American phone number and didn't seem to understand the "My American phone is not international" concept right away. It took a couple tries, but I said clearly that my American phone doesn't accept calls from outside the US because why would I need it to? But she should always shoot me an email if she wants to talk and I can call her through the computer. So I got her number the same time she got my American cell number, but she has my email now too so she can keep in contact that way. She's always been so nice. I'm going to miss her a bit.
Left the room around noon for the library. While there, I printed off my short story and dialogue for creative writing. I finished off my internship portfolio. I printed off the hostel confirmation for my Lillehammer hostel, then I checked into Ryanair for my flight to Billund. With nothing left to do, I resumed my film essay. Got about halfway done when I couldn't concentrate anymore. The keyboard I was using wasn't very good either. I know that's a lame excuse, but it majorly sucked. The space bar was the most annoying part AND some of the keys were sticky. I couldn't type fluent thoughts like that. They would have been constantly interrupted by me retyrping every three words because I didn't push down the O key hard enough. Or something. My fingers fly across keyboards, they do not SLAM them. But I digress. I saved my work and sent it back to myself back home. Then I turned in my projects so I only have one left to do. And I don't really wanna do it, but I gotta. I wish I didn't, but I just gotta.
Back home, Hanne talked to me on Facebook chat. She said that she heard about Heathrow, that I shouldn't worry about messing up our plans, and that I should bring something nice because we're spending New Year's Eve at her boyfriend's friend's place. Now that I think about it, I kind of want a sweater dress because I think they're cute. So I'm going to go buy one eventually. Probably in Paris? Maybe when Ryan is here? Berlin fashion might be neat. Too bad we're not going back to Italy. I really liked a lot of stuff in Italian H&M. But I digress again. Hanne also said that Heathrow would give priority to long distance flights, so my brother's flight shouldn't be canceled. I still kept my eye on the flight status.
Dinner was leftover pizza and some chips from the other day. I still have a bag of frozen chips in the freezer, so Ryan and I have to eat them before we leave. Or at least before we leave the country definitely. Spent dinner watching We're Back: A Dinosaur's Tale because The Land Before Time was nowhere to be found on the internet. It's a lot shorter than I expected. What gave me the urge to watch childish dinosaur movies? Why, video chatting with Jessica, of course! And naturally two hours of my time was spent with Jessica, and Sarah and I were in constant communication with Facebook chat. Several minutes after Jessica signed off, Teagan signed on so I had to talk with her considering we've rarely talked this entire semester.
And then Mom called with news that she got the package I sent at the beginning of December. Yay!! It finally came! And she really liked the earrings I got her (Austrian crystal from the South Bank Christmas Market) and is in love with the Belgian chocolate. She even shared like I told her to. Aww. And she liked the ornaments, so that's good. Smoky called in the middle of it and Mom was the one who managed to get the group video conference call together. Go her! We talked for a while about how Ryan landed in Minneapolis and how Minneapolis was getting snow but they know how to manage it so they should be okay with departures. Departing is the real worry since we're golden once they're up in the air.
Then Emanuele came to say good-bye because he's taking a night flight back to Italy. We hugged, I said it was nice knowing him and maybe we'll see each other again. He said the same things. No one cried. But it was sweet that he came in to say good-bye. Neither Hattie nor Chris did that. Nor did Kevin. I caught Alice as she was leaving, but I think that was just luck. And Oscar didn't even bother to come to the room. Well, he might have, but I wasn't there because I was at work. But he didn't even call or anything. How rude. (No heard feelings -- I know you're reading this since you always search my blog for your name.)
Did some more writing, took some pictures for my latest idea, and now it's one in the morning. I had planned to go to bed earlier, but whatever. I had also planned to do laundry today. What's more, I planned to see Tron Legacy this weekend, but that didn't happen now, did it? We'll see how that goes, though.
Wish me luck finishing everything!
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