HOLY SHIT IT'S COLD

Oh my god... did I really used to live in this cold weather? Holy shit it's FREEZING here. I had to wait outside for the shuttle to the hotel from the airport, and it took an hour for my feet to warm up!! I have 3 pairs of socks on right now, this is nuts.

ANyway, I arrived with no big issues. I had 4 hours to kill in Newark, NJ. THat was fun, let me tell you. At least I got a whole chapter and a hallf read for class. That's something!! I flew on little tiny planes too.. so small that my carryon size luggage had to be checked as I was gettingo n the plane, because apparantly it was too big to fit in the overhead thingies. What the heck? THere were 50 seats, I think the magazine said.. wow. We had to walk outside to get to the steps to get on the plane. WOW. And, it was a 2 hour ish flight too... usually those planes are for short 20 min flights, what the heck!? Oh well. The Newark airport was pretty cool, lots of stores and places to eat. I wandered around for a while, wasting time. I probably walked at least a mile. Fun fun.

THat's about it. We went to visit Jean Landschoot, and all her family was there. Very sad. Tonight was calling hours, that we just got back from. It's all so very sad. =( Bill must have arranged with someone, to have this beautiful framed poem sent to Jean.. it arrived via overnight mail yesterday, that she had to sign for... no one knows how he did it or who helped him... but it was about going on after your significant other dies. It was so sad when she showed it to us. =(