Stuck in the Airport for 7 hours!

Yesterday was such a boring day, because I spent the whole day at the airport.

My flight's departure was 10:45. Though I left the house at 9:30, I arrived at the airport at 10:00 because of the terrible snow/ice everywhere. Then, there was the longest line ever for the check-in and bag drop. It took 30 minutes to check my bag!

And then I hurried over to the security gate, which also had a line, and it took about 7 or 8 minutes to get through it.

And when I thought it couldn't get worse, my gate (gate 16) was the farthest one. And when I got there, the doors had closed. Though it was still 10:40 and 5 minutes before scheduled departure, they had closed the doors a little early. What luck.

Sweating & exhausted from all that running, I walked over to customer service desk. The lady said the next 2 flights for Buffalo were full, so the best next thing was to be put on standby and if there are no-shows for the those flights, I can take their seat.

So I waited for the 2:20pm flight, playing my DS (Professor Layton and the Curious Village) the whole time, and when they finally started boarding, there weren't enough seats for all of us standbys (there were so many!)

And so, I waited for the 5:00pm flight, but I had lost much hope.. and thought about paying a $40 fee to change my flight to the 6:35pm (that was the only one that wasn't full) but decided to wait it out.

By then, my DS was out of battery, leaving me bored shitless. And so I sat there... and surely enough, 5 o'clock flight came along and I had myself a seat on the plane!

The plane was queued for quite some time, though.. about an hour... so we didn't take off until 6. But I was just glad to be on it. I arrived at NYC a little after 7 and went down to baggage claim. I couldn't find my luggage on the belt, so I got a bit anxious... but soon found it later (someone had taken it off the belt and placed it in some abandoned corner in the airport T__T).

That was my terrible day.

And today, I started my spring '09 semester. I had 4 classes today, starting at 9.. with no breaks in-between! Tiresome, indeed.

At least the internet is working now.

And, my roommate moved out. So half of the room is completely bare (with just plain furniture) and the room looks really big. I'm pretty sure there will be someone else moving in soon, and although part of me would like the room to myself, I will be looking forward to meeting my new roommate.

I'm eating congee lol. My mom bought me a mini-ricecooker. Woohoo!