Everyone's complaining about the weeks of rain but I love these torrential downpours, like a giant bucket of water being dumped over the city. The storms up north are much more civilized and much less fun. We've had tornado warnings for the last few weeks and everyone goes to the inner parts of the building, but i can't resist the floor to ceiling windows. From the 22nd floor I watched sky to sea lightning bolts rolling in over the lake, the sky dark as dusk at 10am. Then the rain hit and I couldn't even see out the windows.

Monday night, I was almost done packing and it was 9pm and pouring outside. J called, wanting to see if I still wanted to grab a beer. I did, but also, I knew I shouldn't because 5am flights don't catch themselves. In an utterly predictable manner, I went anyway, drank too much, came home, finished packing and decided to wax my legs at 2am. Then around 2:30 I decided to close my eyes, set my alarm for 3:15am... And of course I woke up at 6.

I couldn't even get too upset with myself. Absolutely could have predicted that one. This has happened before. I can't go out drinking the night before those stupid early flights. Anyway, for 90$ i rescheduled for the next day (today), and it required a 9 hour layover in Houston as penance. But yesterday I lay in bed all day and watched season 6 of Justified, because everyone thought I was flying all day and I was fairly hungover. There may have been cigarettes. Not exactly my best moment, but J suddenly wanted to talk about a pretty dire relationship thing and I know the feeling. What was I going to do? Just take off? Sometimes you just need your friend to get drunk with you and listen, and I think that i do a pretty good job of being that friend. Sorry BT, I'm coming a day later. I know i should feel bad about the whole episode, but surprisingly I do not. Penance in Houston is going nicely. I get really good work done in airports.

New plan: travel all over the world writing in airports until I finish. can't be worse than my current set up.

12:51 p.m. - 2015-04-29