Epiphany in Baltimore

Wednesday, Jun. 04, 2003

Epiphany in Baltimore has moved to epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com

I decided to delete the latest entry. I spoke with Gale, who said she believed it's always important to take the high road. I agree. There is no reason any more to be upset. I'm so through with that situation, it's not even funny. I would never outrule a reconciliation of sorts - life's too short for otherwise - but am not counting on it, nor am I currently making any defined plans to embark on that possibility.

It is a really sad situation, but I don't know what else to do.

I am still making plans with embarking on Italy, though. Bill and I have grown frustrated with airfare shopping. Every time we decide on a rate, it gets sold out or disappears. Bestfares.com, which had some neat possibilities, has tax-free prices, and cost $59.90 to register to figure out what the bottom line costs really are. I just paid $148 for my passport; I don't want to add additional costs to the trip back here at home. We had made it our goal to buy our tickets tonight, but it didn't happen. Bill, a guy whose laid back persona rivals mine, is so frustrated that he told me over the phone he feels like he's going to punch a wall and he doesn't want to work on it any more tonight. I don't want to argue, especially since both tickets are going onto his credit card at first because I do not have room for both.

I actually just found $702 on qixo.com, but cannot buy both on my card so that will have to wait until tomorrow. Ugh.

This is going to be all worth it. The latest plan is to spend three weeks there. I have every intention of making this the best trip of my life so far. Hopefully I can keep the total cost of the trip under $1200, too. The price of the ticket will determine whether I can maintain that number. Since we won't be paying for room or board and will spend a number of days lounging on a remote beach and mountain biking in the Italian mountains instead of going to touristy places, I'm hoping that's possible.

I think I'm going to ask the grandparents and parents for a little loan each, though.

School is getting really, really tough. I am perpetually exhausted and my stack of papers does not ever grow smaller. My stress level is at amongst the highest it's been. I considered taking a day off, but I feel it's irresponsible to do with only eight days left. I will tough it out. I think I am sleep deprived, so 9pm is my bedtime tonight.