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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-12-11 11:01 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-12-11 11:01 pm
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Back.
Despite making comments regarding myself, plane crashes, and Silent Hill that could only be taken as a strange way of tempting fate, the flights out and back were remarkably uneventful.
There was a bit of trouble getting out of JFK the first time. We had to get de-iced and then wait in line for clearance, and while we were puttering aimlessly around the runways, I was staring out the window (because I had a widow seat!) and... doom. A ways off, I could clearly see the shell of a plane. It was completely engulfed in flames and it was surrounded by the blinking lights of emergency vehicles. GAH!
Half a second later, the captain came over the comm and told us that what we on the left hand side were seeing was a drill. Still, was a bit of a panicky thrill for a moment. There's too much "ill" in this paragraph.
Also, we flew Jet Blue, which has individual televisions for each seat, and as I was flipping through in boredom while waiting for the plane to take off so I could turn on my CD player, I saw it received BBC America. It was playing an advertisement for Life on Mars, but it wasn't on until Tuesday (and we flew out on Wednesday and in on Monday). I was disappointed about that until Monday. I had the screen on as a light source, since the reading light was a stretch to reach and I was feeling lazy. I glanced up for whatever reason and saw an advertisement for Top Gear! It would be on at 8, and I gleefully realized we'd still be on the plane at that point. They had two, back to back. 8x4, followed by 8x3 (amphibious cars!) (I think it was "this week" followed by "last week" because "next week" will be 8x5), though they were edited some. They took out the news. I'll never forgive them. (In the second episode, they cut Philip Glenister as well. GRR!)
Trip itself was uneventful, but I did have fun Sunday, at least. Might make a post on that later.
Last Tuesday, as I was leaving the underground parking garage after class (we can use the state building's garage for free after 5, so I do!), I noticed a car. I like to look at cars. Anyway, this one looked a bit old, but I dismissed my initial identification of it because no way would a Datsun be here in Vermont, and certainly not in the winter with the car-eating road salt everywhere. I slowed to look for a logo or anything, but it didn't have anything on the front and, though I looped behind it to exit, there was a car on that side, so I couldn't see its back end.
Whatever. Maybe it was just some normal looking car with a long "nose."
It was there again tonight. So after class, I took the longer way back to my car (which is to say, I walked through the garage instead of taking the elevator from the second floor of the building to the second level of the garage) so I could get a better look at it. I should not have doubted myself! It was indeed a Datsun. And, ha, it was a Datsun 280ZX. (Three of my favorite - in as much as I can actually use that word in reference to this series, since it can apply to about everyone and everything - Transformers G1 characters turn into that model. Prowl, Bluestreak, and Smokescreen, though Smokey's slightly modified.) (I was actually very pleased with myself. That was what I'd initially jumped to, though the model was only because of the three listed above. I kind of wanted to be right, just because Datsuns are so neat looking - though most cars from that time are - and was almost worried it would just turn out to be some modern car and I'd just gone mad or something.)
This Datsun was blue and gray... Fic-writing comes after me again. (It keeps doing this to me after I finish a big scene. It that a good sign or a bad sign? ... Mostly it's a little freaky.) (And, oh, it would be Bluestreak. Gah, creepiness. I may never forgive myself for "Depths.") (I saw Alternators Sideswipe in California, too. Saw some Datsuns, too, but none of them were from the Z series.)
It was very fun to drive around California and spot all the old and/or fancy expensive cars that simply don't exist out here, or at least not in large numbers. Whoo, pretty cars.
(Bonus fun story: my boss has known for a while that I needed all of last weekend off, but apparently work called the house on Sunday to ask if I could come in early to work. Whoops, whoever made the schedule. I'll probably get yelled at next time I'm in, but, like I told my mother, the worst they can do is fire me, and then I wouldn't have to work there anymore.)
There was a bit of trouble getting out of JFK the first time. We had to get de-iced and then wait in line for clearance, and while we were puttering aimlessly around the runways, I was staring out the window (because I had a widow seat!) and... doom. A ways off, I could clearly see the shell of a plane. It was completely engulfed in flames and it was surrounded by the blinking lights of emergency vehicles. GAH!
Half a second later, the captain came over the comm and told us that what we on the left hand side were seeing was a drill. Still, was a bit of a panicky thrill for a moment. There's too much "ill" in this paragraph.
Also, we flew Jet Blue, which has individual televisions for each seat, and as I was flipping through in boredom while waiting for the plane to take off so I could turn on my CD player, I saw it received BBC America. It was playing an advertisement for Life on Mars, but it wasn't on until Tuesday (and we flew out on Wednesday and in on Monday). I was disappointed about that until Monday. I had the screen on as a light source, since the reading light was a stretch to reach and I was feeling lazy. I glanced up for whatever reason and saw an advertisement for Top Gear! It would be on at 8, and I gleefully realized we'd still be on the plane at that point. They had two, back to back. 8x4, followed by 8x3 (amphibious cars!) (I think it was "this week" followed by "last week" because "next week" will be 8x5), though they were edited some. They took out the news. I'll never forgive them. (In the second episode, they cut Philip Glenister as well. GRR!)
Trip itself was uneventful, but I did have fun Sunday, at least. Might make a post on that later.
Last Tuesday, as I was leaving the underground parking garage after class (we can use the state building's garage for free after 5, so I do!), I noticed a car. I like to look at cars. Anyway, this one looked a bit old, but I dismissed my initial identification of it because no way would a Datsun be here in Vermont, and certainly not in the winter with the car-eating road salt everywhere. I slowed to look for a logo or anything, but it didn't have anything on the front and, though I looped behind it to exit, there was a car on that side, so I couldn't see its back end.
Whatever. Maybe it was just some normal looking car with a long "nose."
It was there again tonight. So after class, I took the longer way back to my car (which is to say, I walked through the garage instead of taking the elevator from the second floor of the building to the second level of the garage) so I could get a better look at it. I should not have doubted myself! It was indeed a Datsun. And, ha, it was a Datsun 280ZX. (Three of my favorite - in as much as I can actually use that word in reference to this series, since it can apply to about everyone and everything - Transformers G1 characters turn into that model. Prowl, Bluestreak, and Smokescreen, though Smokey's slightly modified.) (I was actually very pleased with myself. That was what I'd initially jumped to, though the model was only because of the three listed above. I kind of wanted to be right, just because Datsuns are so neat looking - though most cars from that time are - and was almost worried it would just turn out to be some modern car and I'd just gone mad or something.)
This Datsun was blue and gray... Fic-writing comes after me again. (It keeps doing this to me after I finish a big scene. It that a good sign or a bad sign? ... Mostly it's a little freaky.) (And, oh, it would be Bluestreak. Gah, creepiness. I may never forgive myself for "Depths.") (I saw Alternators Sideswipe in California, too. Saw some Datsuns, too, but none of them were from the Z series.)
It was very fun to drive around California and spot all the old and/or fancy expensive cars that simply don't exist out here, or at least not in large numbers. Whoo, pretty cars.
(Bonus fun story: my boss has known for a while that I needed all of last weekend off, but apparently work called the house on Sunday to ask if I could come in early to work. Whoops, whoever made the schedule. I'll probably get yelled at next time I'm in, but, like I told my mother, the worst they can do is fire me, and then I wouldn't have to work there anymore.)
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ok...obviously I've been doing to much work and my brain is fried...but..still...its awesome and amazing...if you want to look it up Earo Serinin (sp???) designed it...he's the guy who did the St. Louis Arch...
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I did, however, see signs talking about how it's being converted into a Jet Blue terminal. (I just Googled it, and that is pretty neat looking! I am sorry I missed it! Perhaps next time, whenever that it.)
Also, I remembered to wave when we crossed Arizona. o.o)b
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ok...so I did a lot of work at VTC...but it was like taking one semester there and cramming it into two weeks...:P...since Thursday I've been putting in 9+hr days drafting...
but yeah...I was at the Delta terminal and no one could direct me to the old TWA terminal...I had a 4hr lay over...
hope you had fun in California...and have a great holdiay
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You are busy. o_O; 9+ hours a day drafting? How have your eyes not simply fallen out of your skull?
I had fun Sunday when I was far away from my relatives! (Actually, Saturday afternoon was the only bad event.)
... I still need to get the Harry Potter books to you. (I have not forgotten! But Dad hid them somewhere, supposedly because they were "in the way" but mostly because he was feeling like being a nuisance, I suspect. I'll bug him about that.)
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well...at least the project is done now...we had presentations all day yesterday...and today we have the critiques...:P...I'm not really looking forward to that..but meh...
Thats good that you were able to get away and have some fun while you were out there...where's you family in CA??? I got approved to pursue and internship that I've been looking at in San Diego. I don't exactly know where San Diego is...but it should be fun if I get it!
kinda funny...I don't like it out west...so what do I do? move farther west...go me!
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Oh, yay. Critiques. x_X Hope that goes well!
Uh... San Francisco area, at least, for most of my uncles. My grandmother's in Sunnyvale. Everyone is CA is crazy, I warn you. Also, San Diego is really, really far south. Near/at the bottom of the state, if I remember correctly. I have never been there! They have Comic Con, though.
Well, then, hopefully CA works better, if you go, since the next west thing is, you know, ocean. Or Hawaii. XD