murphy's law applies.

tuesday. may 20. day before leaving philadelphia. it's a dreary, cold, drizzle-y day. after a fantastic shaved noodle lunch in chinatown with the two matthews, i return to my place to continue dismantling furniture and finalize packing my shipping boxes. about half hour before jared arrives with a car to help me take my boxes to the UPS store, it starts pouring rain. i mean, pouring. okay, no big deal. as we are moving boxes to the car, i fall down the stairs, face first, and sprain my left ankle really badly. miraculously, everything fits in the car. once at the UPS store, we have to park across the street, again in rain. when all is said an done, i walk outside.. no more rain.

wednesday. may 21. day i leave philadelphia. weather was supposed to be really bad, thunderstorms, etc. woke up in the morning and it was actually beautiful out. big puffy white clouds. blue skies. warm sun. between noon and two, it becomes completely overcast and starts to rain. but throughout the afternoon, it jumps from sunny to rainy to both, with nothing too serious. i think my luck must be changing. flight actually boards only a little bit late, and is slated to leave on time, even arrive in LA a little early. the captain announces the front wheel of the plane is a little flat - not a problem, ten minutes tops. ten minutes later, he announces that the wheel actually needs to be changed - should take forty-five minutes but they need to arm the doors to jack the plane. half an hour later, the captain announces that they can't find the jack for the plane to change the tire, so they unarm the doors and tell us we can get off the plane and hang out in the boarding area if we want. i decided to stay on the plane (bad idea). they find a jack.. it doesn't work. they find another jack. it also doesn't work. third jack finally works and we are up and running three and a half hours later.. and i don't get into LAX until past midnight. gotta love sitting on a plane for ten hours, especially when they don't give you any food except for a granola bar.

thursday. may 22. first day in california. i wake up and it is beautiful outside. i am so excited to be home and in california where it's always sunny and in the seventies. it has been thunderstorm-ing with some lightening hitting very close to my house for the past two hours. seriously!?!? SERIOUSLY!?!?!? wtf is going on. all i hear about is the heat wave here in so cal for the past week and i come back and it's THIS?

but as much as i'm complaining, it could all be a lot worse, and i'm really just happy to be out of philadelphia and back in california.