Back at work...

So, I'm back. Thank God. The whole experience reminds me of how I never want to fly anywhere ever again and I'll just drive instead. After waiting in the line to check-in our bags at the airport...

"Is that the end of the line? Oh wait, no , it weaves back that way. Is this the end of the line? Oh wait, look, it snakes over there..."

And then waiting in the chaotic line at airport security...

"I think we're in the wrong line. Why is nobody moving? Where are we being funneled? Why is that TSA lady yelling at those people?"

And then waiting at the gate...

"Henry, no, honey, please just sit down..."

And then waiting on the plane...

"Are we there yet, Mommy?"

And then waiting on the runway after landing for a gate to open up...

"Why are we just sitting here? What are they doing? They have to de-ice that other plane? *expletive*"

And then waiting to get off the plane...

*loses oxygen*

And then waiting for our luggage...

"I thought they said Carousel B. It's obviously not going to be Carousel B. Hank, honey, please don't climb on that!"

I wish to never see an airplane ever again. Amen.

Today I'm back at work and I wish it wasn't so. I'm buried under email and my to-do list is a mile long. Inexplicably, the semester begins MONDAY which is just royally unfair if you ask me. Between the holidays and everyones vacations, it's been hard to get any work done between semesters. Sigh. I've managed to wade through most of my email, but this has resulted in 10 more items being added to my to-do list. I'm downright afraid of my to-do list at this point. It's too large to fit in the designated area of my weekly planner, and so items have been squeezed in every which way and it looks very, very scary.

There's one entry on the list that just says: "pile." It refers to a pile of small junk that I need to take care of but I have no notion of when I can get to each of them so I just stuck them in that pile. Once I finish everything else, I must get to the pile. This likely means the pile will still exist come May.