Does this mean my bad luck with flights end? Or have I spoken too soon

My need to plan ahead outweighed my cautiousness with having no solid plans in terms of next term and I booked several flights today.

Most importantly, I decided even if USC falls through (for those that don't know my ATK team that got second place in the European Finals has been selected to represent LBS at the USC Global Case Challenge... means a lot of work but most importantly a subsidized trip home!! So I decided to fly out early wed (skipping a class there) and skipping all of my classes the following week to spend some much needed time with friends and family in LA) I'm still going to LA. So I booked my ticket.... only to discover while organizing my coursework for nxt term.. I have a special lab for one of my classes the Wed I decided to take off. Oh well, what I learned from my study group mates last term... you can skip any class. They've also ensured that I don't care about my grades anymore which makes life a little less stressful and a little more enjoyable hehe. But anyways I'll be back 2/24 to 3/6 ... 2/25-2/26 I should be competing but I guess if that falls through I'll just be stocking up all the awesome LA food and sun!

Since Eugene wants to make it to Love Bowl he will be flying out 2/14 to 3/6... that's right my hubsters is leaving me on Valentine's Day. I believe I should get best wife award for being cool with that... although our lack of celebration has already set a rather low expectation for this holiday.

Oh second set of flights I had to purchase... our trip to Prague and Vienna with Hannah and Eric... or THE Eric as he likes to be referred to as. EasyJet being the best deal we booked through them.... except this is the airline that I have already purchased two round trip flights on and not gotten on any of their planes. Barcelona got turned away at the gate. Madrid my friend didn't get her Visa and Eugene didn't want me booting it around by myself. So you can imagine my nervousness at booking a flight on this airline. Well I booked our flight out for 3/20 at 4:30PM because Hannah and Eric don't get in until 3/21 anyways and we don't like early flights.... lucky I did that because when updating my calender I discovered I have a midterm on 3/20 at 10AM to 12PM... thank goodness I booked the later flight. Hopefully this means 2010 will be a whole different ball game where I actually get to travel on the flights that I book.

I'm hoping I didn't just jinx myself with this entry... but here's hoping!!

BTW pretty cool foot update... saw the doctor today and he says I should ween myself off both my boot and crutches... what? yea that's right I'm walking (well stutter stepping really) around the apartment with no aids. I think it'll take me a little bit longer to completely be boot/crutch free outside but not bad for massively faster improvement than I expected. Will definitley help with the familia in town and all the London siteseeing we want to do.

Oh and just brief update of the week...

Mostly been just doing Physical Therapy (it's both painful and exhausting but hey if I can be up and walking in January... lay it on me!)

Saw Ms Anna off at a yummy brunch (still no Blu Jam) at Giraffe with Morgan, Meaghan, Leah, and April. Anna was on exchange from Berkeley (Go Bears) and with the partner girls had the 411 on AG01 which made for very interesting breakfast conversation. Hopefully will see her either in Cali or at Duke!

Did get to grab a drink with Chico who was doing a whirlwind in town, very cool and got to get a briefing on the going ons of they SYSCO crew. I totally admire how he is able to stay in touch with folks and how I am absolutely horrendous at it... New years resolution!

Had dim sum and shopping with my Cerebrations crew Alex, Beng-Fai and Mamello (we ended up giving up on the competition but I don't think its so bad because we now have a pretty fun group with pretty entertaining convos) Pretty impressed with Alex's willingness to eat all Chinese dim sum that Beng-Fai and I picked out and a little embarrassed that he knows how to hold chopsticks the correct way... making him better at it than me ::sigh:: Also Beng-Fai wins most gentlemanly person I know for shopping with Mamello and I, carrying our bags, and providing advice... he has a girlfriend and both of us are married so yea he is really just that nice =) Oh and after being denied 3 times by O2 they finally gave me a sim card! (do not understand but I've been denied 3 times for a monthly sim plan... yes all that I wanted was a sim card and I couldn't get it because I hadn't been living in London for longer that 2 months... ridiculous! They even needed my passport before they would give it to me.. yet my classmates got iPhones with their sim plans... no problem..what?) So once I get the whole transferring thing done I will finally feel like I'm a real londoner. My LBS friends will be happy too since normally I run out of my pay as you go minutes within two weeks and proceed to just text them.. I can't call back I'm out of minutes again. This is for you Venu ;)