Ready to go home

You're reading the blog of someone who today met, and petted, the world's oldest known alpaca.

I'll be doing interviews upon my return to B-More.

I'm really ready to get home. Today's sessions were much better than yesterday, but I still have made no friends and solitude gets tiring. At least in Baltimore I'm too busy to notice when this happens. Here, I'm far too idle.

I'm also excited about getting in front of my computer and sitting down and writing my syllabus for the new school year. I spent much of today jotting down ideas and sequences. That's definitely a positive of this conference; it's made me excited to prepare for the year. I already have the first month of school written in my head.

In other news, I have to take a dump and the super secret bathroom I found on a winding floor of the castle is all the way at the top of the 157-step hill. My refusal to use the community dorm bathroom here may have to come to an end because I think I might turtlehead by the time I get halfway up there.

Flight leaves tomorrow at 4:02 pm. The shuttle to the airport leaves at 1:30pm tomorrow. It's a two-hour drive. It will be an interesting race to see if I make it. I could pay $50 and take an earlier shuttle, which they say my school will pay back, to which I replied, You do not know my school.