Holy Fuck-A-Moly
As promised, Mandi and I took a little roadtrip to find my first rotation site that starts tomorrow. I looked up my mapquest directions and we were ready to kick it.
First, we made a stop at the OG for some soup, salad and breadsticks. That in itself was a interesting time. No joke the waitress asked me like 3 times if I wanted a box for my left over soup. For some odd reason I passed all 3 times.
So then we finally get on our way. Mind you this is my first time driving this close to the city...I go no further on I-88 than Highland Ave (that's Mike's job...hehe). First of all, let me tell you the directions even sounded a little cracked out before we started. Well we had some bad luck.....our first wrong turn.....lead us to nearly O'Hare Airport before we could get ourselves turned around. I was a little disappointed Mandi didn't let me take a stroll through the O'Hare airport terminals just for fun on the way by. Then our directions had us taking a left turn when there were no lefts.....even better that road didn't even exist........nor the next one on my directions. Somehow even with never finding those 2 roads we ended up at a road on my directions. We thought that was fan-titty-tastic! Then we did finally find the road that the site was on.......only to come to a dead end of an industrial park. When we turned around (on that very same road) we weren't even on the same road name. WTF right? Well somehow without us knowing the road forked and we took the wrong "prong". We did end up finding my site after a little over an hour of fun. We sat in the parking lot for awhile soaking up the glory of actually being there...and then continued soaking up (not glory this time) pee knowing we somehow had to find our way back.
Mandi looked at the map like a champ and came up with a better way home. Oh yea......it took us only 15 mintues to get back. Then we were off to grocery shopping, since I have to fed myself now with no help from Chartwells (the on-campus cafeteria). I even had a make a lunch for tomorrow! CRAZINESS!
Anyway, shortly after I got home, Kevin was online and I was telling him about the mis-advanture. Only for him to tell me that he had a rotation (back in the day at Drake) there and it was super easy to get there. So he gave me some stellar directions (I'm crossing my fingers that they don't suck since it's avoiding the expressways). Where was Kevin eariler when I needed him, huh??
Wish me luck on my very first day of being a grown-up and going to my very first rotation. Wow...did I never think this day would be here. I don't think it's hit me yet. Maybe it will tomorrow around 10am.