I cannot believe that I am leaving Guam in less than two days. How does time go so fast? I feel like that is a major theme on this blog: time speeding by more quickly than I know what to do with it.
So the last few days have been filled with spending time with friends and saying good-byes to people. And also talking to customer service agents at cheaptickets.com and Continental airlines trying to actually get home. I will go to great lengths to avoid ever using either again. But I did kind of chuckle this morning as I drove to the beach to read and stare at the horizon... because I realized that I so like getting my own way. Which I did not, by the way, with this ticket issue. Which I guess is not the end of the world. But it took me by surprise in some ways-- the extent to which I am accustomed to getting my way. I think that some of this is that I know how things work, for the most part, in my specific culture, and so tailor my expectations of what I want based on how things generally operate. But still. How weird that I think I should get my way as often as I do.
Anyway, lest you think that I am drowning in a cesspool of inner enlightenment and turmoil: I'm not. I just got back from a sunny morning at the beach and will be spending the day packing and meeting with friends. I am very grateful for all of these things and the ability to enjoy them, and am pretty excited to get home soon, too!
