Anxiety ramping up to unacceptable. About to melt down.
Could someone more experienced with international travel than I am please talk some sense at me? Either here or FB Messenger, I'd really appreciate it.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2015 1:29:17 pm PDT #8073 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
lisah - Oct 29, 2015 1:34:19 pm PDT #8074 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate
When are you leaving, Zen? Is there anything specifically about the trip making you anxious right now?
brenda m - Oct 29, 2015 1:38:07 pm PDT #8075 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Zen, were you able to choose a seat? Either way, if you take the record locator, you should be able to go to the actual airline, see your reservation, choose seat if you have not already. That may make you feel better.
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2015 1:50:47 pm PDT #8076 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I leave Dec 20. It isn't the trip bothering me, it's who I've booked the flight with. I booked through AirFare.com, because the flight was cheaper, but frankly the bad English on the site bothers me, and then I go to FinnAir website and there's a ! that says I have to "provide some advance regulatory information for US Authorities. If you still have not provided the information, you can do it here" and I click on "here" and it takes me to a blank page that says Start Over. The fact that I've ordered a receipt twice and haven't gotten it bothers me too. Like, I've never flown FinnAir, I don't even know if this is their real website.
I'm freaking because I'm afraid I'll get to the airport an hour before my flight and find they have no record of me and I don't have a reservation.
Maybe I should cancel the reservation (I have until midnight to do it without penalty, or so the website says) and re-book through the actual airline. It'll cost more, but I'll get to use the credit card I wanted to use (another story, never mind) and I'll feel more secure.
Anxiety infodump, sorry.
Connie Neil - Oct 29, 2015 2:13:59 pm PDT #8077 of 30003
brillig
Zen, with that many points of uncertainty, I'd cancel and go with something more confirmable. But I also have your sort of anxiety. It cost me a few hundred dollars on my credit card to cancel my LA trip, but I don't really mind too much for the cessation of anxiety. I just turned on the furnace, and every odd smell and thump has me going "It just blew out" and "Is the house on fire?" I know it's dust in the vents and metal expanding and contracting, but still . . . When there's a miniscule-but-non-zero chance of something happening, my money's on not zero. I've had too many freakish things happen to me to relax. It's why I have professionals look over essential systems.
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2015 2:16:12 pm PDT #8078 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh yeah. Click on Cancel My Trip and the link goes 404. I'm calling them.
Lee - Oct 29, 2015 2:19:33 pm PDT #8079 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
In keeping with tradition, the office, and especially my floor, went all out on the halloween decorations this year. [link]
We had one child show up.
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2015 2:26:25 pm PDT #8080 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
So apparently I'm gonna be on hold with this dang company for the rest of my life.
hippocampus - Oct 29, 2015 2:29:20 pm PDT #8081 of 30003
not your mom's socks.
DH's CT is tomorrow morning. I am university guest lecturing at the same time, 1 hour away. I have no idea how I'm going to get through tomorrow morning without checking my phone every ten minutes, and I offered to cancel, but he's all "no worries." but mostly I'm pulling for "find why this happened to him, but let it not be anything bad."
can I say congratulations to DH yet Strix?
The everlasting law librarian skelly is awesome Lee.
Sheryl - Oct 29, 2015 2:38:12 pm PDT #8082 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Same old, same old here.