Today was much more of a slow day, with no grand adventures like getting lost in the park. It was wet, cloudy and cold the entire day, leaving me bummed out regardless of our hopes of a warm tomorrow. CU-Boulder released the website that I'll be registering my classes through this morning as well. I spent about an hour in bed on my iPad, testing the site out and making sure I'll be able to connect when July 27th comes and the engineering college opens it's registration doors for a day.
We watched TV, ate cereal, and watched a movie. It was "The Fighter," a boxing movie, and it was actually really, really good! By the time it ended, over half the day had worn away with not even a glimpse of sunshine :\
The only real thing of note is us driving over to UNH. It's about an hour away, giving me plenty of time to listen to the new Jimmy Eat World and frustratingly remember all the music I left off my iPhone for this trip.
UNH is a pretty school. The town is unbelievably tiny, if it's even a town at all and not just an extension of the school. Literally, the school is the only thing there for a few miles. Each of the buildings looks something like an old colonial mansion, all brick with the white trimmings. Trees are everywhere, everything is wet and green and bursting with spring. And since their semester just ended last week, the place was more or less deserted.
I got to meet up with William Wilkinson, an old boyfriend of mine who grew up in NH and moved back when he got out of the navy about a year before I did. Billy-Willy was one of the nicest people I've ever met in the navy and he is still unbelievably good. He's funny and tall and also ridiculously smart. When he reads a book or a manual, he absorbs all knowledge and forever retains the most minute detail. He lives in the college partying house and, as we walked in, he was in the process of repainting the walls to repair the damage a year of partying had done to the place. Since he's also going through as an electrical engineer, he was able to give me a few pointers about how to score cheap/free college books and reiterated how much of a good time even engineering college can be.
I forgot to mention that he was repainting the walls in his old navy uniform ^_^
We stayed there, on the college campus, for almost two hours before heading back and getting to the kitchen table at about 8:30, in time for some steak fillets his mom had grilled up. Conversation consisted of a heated debate over what defined a fruit or a vegetable, sparked by the roasted green peppers on our dinner plates. I got to give Elena a quick call and then got back to watch the Boston Redsocks playing against someone, in between watching the Boston Celtics play against someone, in between watching a Family Guy episode starring Tom Brady and the Patriots. The fan pride here is no joke.
I've been checking up periodically on the Iceland volcano situation. It looks like the airport is back open and the worst of the ash is restricted to the southern east part of the island, away from where I am going to be. The only concern I have is my flight out of Friday to Glasgow. I'd read that most air traffic wouldn't be disturbed...except for flights to northern Britain. If I have get diverted to London instead, it wouldn't be so bad to spend a few more days there or maybe a few more in Brussels. I'd only planned on being in Glasgow and Edinburgh a day each. It'd be disappointing to miss, but workable.
Tomorrow, we plan on going to walk the Freedom Trail before my flight. It's at 9:30pm and I want to be at the airport by 5. Hopefully it's not rainy again, but I'm afraid it will be
PS Boulder is definitely the better school, hands down.
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