Sleep makes me feel better. The trip yesterday didn’t go quite as planned, but it was, in general, a good trip. We left Raleigh at ten, as planned, but my grandmother didn’t want to go back to Rocky Mount and the hospital to see her sister, so I didn’t force the issue. It was aContinue reading “Emergency Road Trip IV”
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Emergency Road Trip III
I pulled into my driveway precisely at midnight, only to discover that my legs didn’t work quite right. I’m tired. We’ll tell the tale tomorrow after sleep.
Emergency Road Trip II
In an hour my grandmother and I are leaving Raleigh, heading back north to Baltimore. The plan seems to be this–drive to Rocky Mount, pay a visit to Gertrude at the hospital, stay a half an hour tops, then up I-95 to Baltimore. Leave at ten, should arrive in Baltimore somewhere in the vicinity ofContinue reading “Emergency Road Trip II”
Emergency Road Trip
Yesteday I made an emergency trip to Baltimore. Saturday morning my mother called me at work. “What does your Sunday schedule look like?” she wanted to know. Her aunt–my grandmother’s ninety year-old sister–was in the hospital in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She had fallen a few days earlier and broken her hip. Someone needed toContinue reading “Emergency Road Trip”
On 2004 In Review
I saw this on David Henderson‘s LiveJournal, questions aimed at summarizing 2004. What was last year like for me? Let’s run down the list. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before?Visit Florida. I’d always wanted to go, and this year the company’s annual managers’ conference was held in Orlando. Did youContinue reading “On 2004 In Review”