sam_gamgee | (no subject)

I hate my allergies. Every year during the fall and spring when the weather definitely starts changing in either direction, my nose both stuffs up and starts runningand I start coughing. Which in and of themselves aren't too bad - except for when it's all happening at the same time. And I'm not talking about normal coughing, but barking-like-a-seal/coughing-up-a-lung coughing. Thankfully, it usually only lasts a few days.

I'm doubly thankful that my allergies weren't in effect this past weekend for the con, or this past Tuesday when I was with

libralyte and her little brother.

On Tuesday, they came down so

libralyte could show Jacob the campus and they could do the informational presentation and take the tour and I took the day off and tagged along. It ended up being a bit of an adventure coming down, because they got messed up with the trains due to a traffic accident and I had to go get them from a different station. But we ended up being only about 5 minutes late, so it worked out okay.

I've been on the tail end of the tours a lot, because they end in the lobby outside of the bookstore, so it was kind of neat getting to actually go on the tour and see where they go and what they talk about. And our "group" - which was just the three of us, a mother and daughter, and the guide, ended up getting a bit extra, since

libralyte and I wouldn't shut up - me adding stuff to what the guide was saying and

libralyte both adding things and asking questions because things have changed since we went there. (Like the way they group freshmen housing.) But, all in all, it was pretty cool.

Afterwards, we met my dad for dinner at the Deer Park and had dinner. Then the three of us split from him and walked up and back about half of Main Street to a) kill some time before I had to drop them off at the train station (this time the one in Newark) and b) show Jacob some of the town.

*starts coughing again* I will be *so* glad when my body recalibrates to the colder weather.