Off to Virginia

I got up this morning ready to go to the airport that will take me to Norfolk, Virginia for a Faculty Advising Conference. So I finish putting the last of my stuff into the bags, get in my car and drive to IAH in north Houston. I just missed an interchange from North I 45 to the east 59 because some idiot did not let me into his lane. Instead he sped ahead and I missed it. So I had to get off at the next off ramp, make a U and then had to get on south I 45 to make the interchange. On the other side, where I was a few minutes ago, and accident must have just occurred and it was already looking like a parking lot. I am glad I just missed that mess. I finally arrived at the airport and when to parking lot C. When I got there the lot was full and said to go to lot A. I went to lot A and it said lot full use the parking lots on airport value lot. I parked and then waited for the shuttle to pick us up. It finally came and got to my airline self help ticket terminal to get my boarding pass. I was not in the system. Since the college set it up and paid for it I figured that it should be fine since they do this all the time. Well, when I asked a ticket person for help I found out that I was in the system but the ticket was not paid for. WHAT? So I paid for it and will get reimbursed when I get back. Hurried from terminal A to terminal B to my gate and I had missed my flight by 5 minutes. The next flight was 4 hours later. So I got a pizza meal which included a small pizza, a salad and a drink. So at least I ate a little healthy. I am glad I brought my laptop. I read one of Adam’s short stories (which was very good), started writing my brass fanfare piece and wrote this entry. Back to composing.