Nearly to Milan

[kareina]

After a truly delightful time in Wisconsin visiting with family I'd not seen in many, many years (most of them not since I was 16!) and good friends from An Tir who settled there I boarded a plane for London. Once again my charmed life provides me extra luxury; I had three seats in a row to myself, which meant that I could lift up the arms and lay down across them all to get some good sleep on the flight. And mine was the last row before one of the toilets, making it very easy to make necessary trips. Landed around mid-day (a good hour or more late, so it is good I didn't plan a tight connection to get to Milan) and made my way to an affordable hotel not far from the airport. I spent the day trying to catch up with e-mail LiveJournal FaceBook etc. and did a short walk to a local store to pick up some shampoo and some fruit juice to have with my muesli in the morning. I then went to sleep early and slept till a bit after midnight, when I got up and accomplished a few useful tasks (like mending the skirt I'd ripped the other day) and more on-line tasks. I've got another couple of hours before I need to head back to the airport for my flight to Milan, so now I need to decide if I want another nap, or if I'd rather listen to some of those Italian CDs I was given (thank you blamebrampton!).

I heard from one of my fellow post-docs today--there is a bbq at his house on Friday, so I'll get to meet people and start developing a local social life straight away.