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[Error: unknown template qotd]I think this year so far takes the cake for worst holiday travel. We live on campus, which isn't so bad but presents some interesting challenges. Last Friday everything shut down. The only thing open this week was the HUB and library, and both of those were on limited "work hours" schedules. While we have 24/7 access to our laundry facilities, the machines are card-operated, meaning ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
painted_wolf has to put cash on her college ID card for us to do laundry. Centre Lodge is where we usually put cash on the card. That's the building that's like the common area for the on-campus apartments. It's closed. The HUB was only open while I was at work, meaning I couldn't get there to add cash to PW's card and she didn't do it. Today is Christmas Eve and they're closed all day. That meant we had to go to the laundromat with just what we need for travel. I called the laundromat to find out when they close and the woman on duty said 3pm. That killed my plan to go after work, I thought, so I called PW in a panic asking her to gather what we needed and meet me for lunch so we could get the laundry done. We arrive to find out the commercial area closes at 3pm but the card-op area where the public does their laundry is open until 10pm as usual. Great. So by the time we get laundry started, get bus tickets, and I get to the bank with my paycheck I find they've been closed for half an hour. Lovely. At least we got our tickets and we can still gather with family, but now we are traveling with no money whatsoever. We ate all of our food so we wouldn't leave perishables around for four days to go bad only to find the usual free community dinner we were planning to attend for dinner tonight had been canceled because the chef unexpectedly died. That sucks because he was a great guy who did a lot for the community, and it also meant we had two boxes of Rice-A-Roni to eat for dinner and that's it.
So that's the holiday so far. Hopefully nothing goes horribly wrong tomorrow and we get to Nashua safe and sound. Not that I really celebrate Christmas, mind you, but I think this year gets a big, fat bah-humbug!
painted_wolf has to put cash on her college ID card for us to do laundry. Centre Lodge is where we usually put cash on the card. That's the building that's like the common area for the on-campus apartments. It's closed. The HUB was only open while I was at work, meaning I couldn't get there to add cash to PW's card and she didn't do it. Today is Christmas Eve and they're closed all day. That meant we had to go to the laundromat with just what we need for travel. I called the laundromat to find out when they close and the woman on duty said 3pm. That killed my plan to go after work, I thought, so I called PW in a panic asking her to gather what we needed and meet me for lunch so we could get the laundry done. We arrive to find out the commercial area closes at 3pm but the card-op area where the public does their laundry is open until 10pm as usual. Great. So by the time we get laundry started, get bus tickets, and I get to the bank with my paycheck I find they've been closed for half an hour. Lovely. At least we got our tickets and we can still gather with family, but now we are traveling with no money whatsoever. We ate all of our food so we wouldn't leave perishables around for four days to go bad only to find the usual free community dinner we were planning to attend for dinner tonight had been canceled because the chef unexpectedly died. That sucks because he was a great guy who did a lot for the community, and it also meant we had two boxes of Rice-A-Roni to eat for dinner and that's it.So that's the holiday so far. Hopefully nothing goes horribly wrong tomorrow and we get to Nashua safe and sound. Not that I really celebrate Christmas, mind you, but I think this year gets a big, fat bah-humbug!
