NYCSB
new york city spring break.

our flight was supposed to be at 7:30pm monday, but when we got to the gate it had been delayed til 8:00. the waiting area was rather full, and i don't think my brother likes sitting next to strangers, so we sat at a neighboring gate. there was an intercom system that was blasting information about all the surrounding gates, so we figured it would notify us of any changes in the flight schedule. at 7:45 or so, we went back to check, and watched as the flight got delayed from 8:00 to 8:45. with a sigh, we headed back to our seats. at about 8:25 i went back again to check. imagine my disbelief when the gate no longer said new york, but new orleans. this has gotta be some sorta joke, right? the waiting area was still bustling with people. so i go to check the monitors displaying all the flight schedules, and my flight is nowhere to be seen.

what's going on? where'd everybody go? am i being punk'd?

i head back to the gate and ask the lady where all the peoples at. she asks to see my ticket, looks it over, then hands it back to me, saying the plane had already taken off.

i wasn't sure whether to laugh or sob. so i laughed, and headed back to where jason was waiting.

me: let's go, we missed our flight.
jason: no we didn't.
me: seriously, we missed our flight. it took off already.
jason: no.
me: our flight's gone!
jason: i don't believe you.

well i guess seeing is believing cuz a few minutes later he was laughing too. i mean, what am i, the boy who cried wolf or something? why would anyone not believe me?

so we go to the service desk and i told the lady there about our situation. she told me that all flights going into jfk were booked for the rest of the week. AWESOME! but she told me i could standby for a flight into a different airport leaving within an hour. i questioned how long the standby list was. she said it was very lengthy. AWESOME!

as another lady was helping jason print his standby ticket, she asked what had happened to make us miss our flight. we had explained everything in rather full detail to the first lady, but she simplified things by saying, "they were at the wrong gate."

i have never felt so smart in my life.

miraculously we end up getting the last 2 tickets onto the flight, even though we were on the 3rd page of the list. what are the odds?

details are tiring. i think pictures will suffice for the rest of this post, alongside brief descriptions.




boston university looks like my brother's top choice, so we visited the campus. my brother is convinced that the person who took the 2nd picture for us left thinking we were partners, if you know what i mean.


i don't think i could ever work or live in new york city. it's just too busy for my taste. i mean you spend just a little time down in the subway and you realize that the city is just too fast-paced and busy for anyone to take the time to take pictures like this.


we also did a bit of shopping there. this is the stylish jacket that i purchased. i like it.

overall it was a very enjoyable trip. much thanks to our host, eddie, and all the people we met up with there, who will probably never venture to read this blog.

note the changes
this post is dedicated to informing you, the reader, of some of the changes that are happening in both my life and the world that we live in.

with the emergence of spring break, my internship with kpmg has come to an abrupt end, which means no more cash flow entering my wallet for a while. yesterday was mmy first day of class in quite a while as i discovered that i do in fact still remember how to get to the business school.

as far as work goes, i am contemplating over whether or not to accept a job offer for kpmg houston, which would start after i graduate next year. oh and since i am no longer working, this blog will no longer be "updated every workday. usually" to "calm down i will update this thing whenever i get the chance or whenever i have something to post, whichever comes first."

going back to school is great. not really, who am i kidding. 3 hours of class each day monday through thursday is not exactly the dream scenario, but i'll live. it's just super tiring sitting in the same seat for 3 hours at a time. hm, i wonder how i survived work life, working 8-12 hours at a time..?

oh and i don't know if i missed the memo or what, but where the heck did the periodicals section of the PCL go? what's going on back there? i guess i haven't been in a while, but for some reason or another i ventured into perry casteneda's domain this afternoon only to find the entire section blocked off. i felt so lost, so..betrayed. i knew going to the library was and always will be a mistake.

then i tried to go to j2 piano lounge to do some studying, but little did i know that apparently that place also doubles as an oven for baking cookies. i was there for less than 5 minutes and i swear i saw people using it as a sauna.

so i decided to give up on the whole "studying" thing and just walk home. as i strolled past the st. austin's catholic school behind guadalupe, i once again overcame the urge to go own up in their daily game of dodgeball. or maybe i was just distracted by their new unis.

(quick story. last semester i took cms306m, which is a speech class. whenever i hadda give a speech, i also had to dress up. problem is i didn't have any dressy clothes up here in austin. so i borrowed a shirt here, a pair of pants there, you know, just trying to mix and match to the best of my ability. one day i borrowed hao's red shirt, and jonle's khaki pants, and all was well except the clothes weren't exactly the best fit. then i ventured into jester and some mean girls mentioned that i looked like a kid from st. austin's.)

maybe the school is like the nba where they have special days that they wear alternate jerseys, or maybe throwback jerseys for the old school st. austin's look, but today all the kids were wearing white shirts! it was nuts! if they had't have been caged into that asphalt playground, i wouldn't have been able to tell any of them apart from some really small UT freshmen.

have i been gone too long? has everything changed? what's going on?

oh and speaking of changes..