Of Prom and Flights

I'm currently posting from Poughkeepsie at the lovely Stasha's (lovely) house. I'll post about that later this week, along with move-in to New Haven (tomorrow!) and work (Monday!) and stories about YOU (the readers who I will be seeing and/or talking to soon!). Shout-out to my follower :D. If you want a shout-out...be a follower! Or not, it doesn't really matter, hehehe.

I went to my brother's prom on Wednesday night, as did the rest of the fam. I enjoyed it a bit more than I thought I would, but that quickly got old. I was very pleased with how my dress looked. I ended up picking out the dress two days before prom--originally I was going to get a silvery strapless dress, but that got ruined as they were fixing it and I had to try on a different one. Luckily, they had a cool sparkly black dress that required basically no fixing because it was stretchy. I'll post some pictures once my dad gets home. He has them all on his camera and right now he's with David somewhere in Long Island for a regatta.

The flight to NY went pretty well, but I did have a tough time with security. First I had my hands swabbed. As a chemist and as a sensible human being, I don't see how wiping my hands with a dried up alcohol swab would tell you anything instantaneously of what I handled. I want to look this up but I don't know how I would. My run in with security doesn't end there. I've probably told everyone about this one by now: they took my toothpaste. Why? Because even though I can fold it up and stick it into my zip-lock bag...even though I could put just as much stuff in smaller "approved" containers...even though I couldn't put anything suspicious in the toothpaste since I was already past security...apparently my nearly-empty toothpaste tube was too much of a threat and had to be confiscated. I've been a toothpaste pirate for the past three days...using toothpaste that belongs to others. This wouldn't have been so bad if the plane weren't being boarded as my poor purple bag had to be scanned 3 times [I also had my Wii in there, which they surprisingly missed the first time. They also missed my full bottle of water in my backpack. But hey, we're all human, right? WRONG. You have the orcs that don't know that no matter how I divide my toothpaste, I can carry the same amount! (Why orcs? Ask someone else. Maybe I'm being mean...but I would have been even more upset if I missed my flight because of this)].

There were some other unexpected surprises I stumbled upon while traveling. For one, I didn't know I'd be rooming with one of David's sailing buddies. We also saw two traffic causing accidents on our way back from the airport, and a very nasty one a little later on. Also, my roomie's bag was left in San Juan, so we had to stay a couple extra hours at JFK. Without her bag, she basically wouldn't be able to sail.

I've stayed up a bit past my bedtime. As I mentioned earlier, I'm in Poughkeepsie right now with Stasha! All this traveling has left me pretty pooped and I went to bed around 10pm-ish last night. Til next time!