3 things are certain in life....

death, taxes, and if lara has a plane ticket, that flight is *guaranteed* to be delayed.

case in point: yesterday, i should have been out of new jersey by 1:45pm, and we took off at 5:15 instead.

now, i've spent an evening wandering around downtown madison with patrick (Budapest friend)... it took us 5 minutes of walking past each other to recognize one another at the airport... i have much longer hair than in budapest, have changed body shape by a lot, and don't wear glasses anymore... patrick on the other hand went from being clean shaven with very short hair and no glasses to very long bushy hair, and even more bushy beard, and wearing glasses... i guess it's good that we both recognized the other's eyes? oi...

it's fun to catch up... now i'm staying in an apartment with three thai guys... one who i know from rutgers, one who is that guy's college roommate, and one who is my friend's ex-roommate's current roommate... they all speak thai most of the time except the one who knows me to talk to me, and his ex-roommate to make sure i don't need anything. it's an entertaining dynamic for the weekend.

conference all day. bound to be a blast.

happy saturday from wisconsin!