Earth below us...

drifting, falling / floating weightless / coming home...

I'm almost done checking out. I have completed my exit interview with Disaster Mental Health, cleared my expense reports with Accounting, checked my car out of Logistics-Transportation (I must return it to the rental place myself), and returned my celphone and its accoutrements. I must now finish an interview with Staff Health (total of health problems on this trip: shredded big toes from doing pushups in bare feet on hostile carpet after close to a month of wearing sandals) and run my papers through Staffing, and then they let me go. Staff Health is in a meeting, but soon...

well, soon I"m going to go to the wild animal place again, and possibly the San Antonio Missions National Park, 'cos my flight doesn't leave until tomorrow. But you knew that. The important thing is that my duties will be over and all that remains is to wait for the airlines.

Huzzah.

Slight amendment:

can't leave yet. That'd be too close to taking a day off. I'm supposed to travel on the last day if I check out early in the morning, but the fact is they couldn't get me out of here on Wednesday for less than $1,000 (and for $1,000 for a one way ticket I expect to be going somewhere a lot more interesting than New Jersey - not to mention the Red Cross doesn't need to spend that kind of money). So I'm staying until probably lunchtime, maybe a bit after lunch.

Right now I just want to report that 'Breakfast Club Stay Sharp' sack lunches from Cool School Incentives Inc. include slightly stale Lucky Charms and 'Waffle Grahams', and that the Lucky Charms taste pretty decent if you float 'em in chocolate milk.