speedbumps

In twenty-four hours, I will be on a plane to the netherlands.

Meanwhile, I spent my last day in America walking around Boston and picking up some last minute necessities. I decided, like any regular human being, to stop at an atm machine to get cash to purchase said necessities. This is how that went:

brian: why hello atm machine, may i please have some money?

atm: OH HAI I'Z GONNA EATZ UR ATM CARD LOL BYE

brian: wtf.

YES. THE ATM ATE MY CARD.

This would not be much of a problem if i weren't GOING TO EUROPE IN ONE DAY.

So I immediately ran over to the nearest Bank of America to solve this dilemma.

Banks are all the same. The lights are too bright, the air is too thick, and there is an atmosphere of Quiet Importance. I approached the desk, and a heavily-accented gentleman named Dimitri asked me iv he could help me wiv anysing. 

I said, "Sir, your defective ATM machine has swallowed my card whole and I demand you right this situation at once."

And then I punched him in the face.

No. But I did make it clear that this was a huge problem, and he said that a new card can be delivered to my home on Friday. Wonderful. Except I'll be in The Netherlands. So the deal is, I'll live off of my cash for awhile and Bonnie and Billy will send the card to me ASAP in the mail. LOVELY. 

oh well.

twenty three hours to go.

supplies

fyi, i'm only bringing five pairs of pants.

it was surprisingly easy to pick out which pants i wanted to take with me. i only really have four pairs of jeans that i wear on a regular basis anyway, so that didn't take long.

and then i turned to my closet.

i stood in front of my closet for an embarrassingly long amount of time, running my hands over all of my clothes. it's amazing how many different materials my shirts and vests and sweatshirts are made of. warm and soft and slightly itchy and smooth and flannel. 

"take me," cried my blue and red flannel shirt.

"no, take me," said the gray sweater vest.

"you're all useless," said the brown t-shirt. "but i'm not."

i ended up taking all three.

i'm disgusting.

three days to go.