it's a beautiful day (don't let it get away)

what a whirlwind of a weekend.

thursday: the day (pre-flight cancellation debacle) began quite normally. (see previous post) after getting to the airport in ATL, we depart as scheduled... unfortch, as we get closer to phoenix, apparently there is some giant storm hovering right over the airport, so we're forced to circle from 30-45 mins (if the storm didn't pass by then, we were to be diverted to tuscon. TUSCON. WTH.). after circling, we land in phoenix, only about 20 minutes delayed... and thus begins the insanity. my flight to la was supposed to get in at 11pm. BUT since many of the other planes had been diverted to tuscon, all of the crew (pilot, flight attendants, etc.) were. still. in. tuscon. and not. in. phoenix. we had to wait for them to get to phoenix before we could even begin to board the aircraft.

after a billion delays, we finally attempt to make it into the plane around 1am... sadly, we missed our chance and our flight was cancelled. CANCELLED. i've never had a cancelled flight in my entire life, even with all the plane-hopping that occurred in 2006. i was freaked out and tired, and had to cancel my dentist's appointment at 8:30am. my sister was a dear during the whole ordeal and communicated my frantic status updates to my mother, who was picking me up from lax. managed to get a flight into burbank departing at 7:30am (other ppl were told the earliest flight back to la was 3pm, or even 7pm. *shudders*).

anyhow. i did spend the night at the airport. yes, it was uncomf and i hope i never have to do that again. thankfully i had no checked luggage so i was toting around my facewash and toothbrush/paste and all other essentials. as i'm dozing, i get an automated message from us airways telling me that my burbank flight is cancelled. WHAT THE HALE, right? panicking, i call back immediately and am lucky enough to get a seat on the earliest flight back to la... same departure/arrival time. no idea what was going on there, but when i got on that AM flight... i had never EVER been so thankful to be on a plane in my entire life. i passed out as soon as the plane took off.

friday: was a blur. i came home, napped for 2 hrs, went to work for a bit. went over to e's and helped finish cutting the krispie treats for the boys in the graduate. speed over to the troub but the show was sold out! sad... we grab the krispies and hand them off to the band as they load out. they are such sweethearts and their management thought we were 12. max mentioned they had recorded a few songs while they were in chicago the past few days. said goodbye, headed back to the car. awkward fangirl moment on the corner! e won't let me live it down. off to the key club to see my lil bro rob's band, ddl roundhouse in the emergenza fest. had drinks, ate dinner. i'll add some photos later to this post, if poss. home, discussed going to the grad show in SD @ soma w/ alee, and then sleep.

saturday: worked early morning. home. napped 3 hrs. on a total whim - i buy a ticket to the grad's show and start driving down to SD around 4pm to meet up with alee. make it in by 6:30pm. get to soma. hang outside for awhile, head in for the graduate, run into max who is looking for the rest of his band members. desperately hoping i do not run into [redacted] since friday night was hilar awk. some tech difficulties, they talked about a new vinyl version of anhedonia that they are recording... incl. new version of the formula & trans rave version of interlude. they played interlude that night and it was FREAKING AWESOME. no water during the formula. boo... watched MAH's set, then got ready to head out. we took up the h20 issue with [redacted]-- apparently sound guys don't like it when water is involved (clean-up and equipment ish)... also apparently they once tried to use glitter but then they ~*dazzled*~ for days cos they couldn't get it off. at this point i was snorting with laughter. +10 for alee's twilight reference. "we've met before.. .several times." "how many times have you guys met?!" "a couple? idk idk."

and then headed to in&out and then home. 20 minute traffic jam at 1:00am on the way home on the 405N... ick.

sunday: i've never wanted to sleep so badly in my entire life. and sleep, i shall.