Sitting in the Great Residence Hotel near the Bangkok airport as I type this. Today was... more eventful than it should have been, let's say. Woke up around 7:30, had a tasty rice soup thing for breakfast, worked on packing and sat around on my netbook. Talked with Denny, John and Mike for a bit too. 10 came, no vans, 10:50 came, Denny called, vans should be there at 11. Well, the first van showed up at 11:30, we worked on packing bags (including the bags we had earlier left at the Bangkok train station), and got in the vans. I slept the first two hours or so, woke up to find out we were lost. Quite lost. The drivers didn't speak much English, but it was obvious from what was going on, we weren't going anywhere and they asked for directions multiple times. Anh tried to see if she could communicate with them at all, she couldn't, so she just started saying extremely vulgar things to see if they'd react to the English at all (oh, Anh), we all got tired and antsy from being in a car so long, especially the people awake for the whole thing, and when we arrived we were quite happy to be done with it. Course, the other van hadn't arrived yet, so some of us sat around and waited while others ate, after some snippiness about signing in, waited, waited, finally they showed up, bags got put in random rooms until we re-figured out where people were staying (Denny had reserved them arbitrarily as he had to do it before we decided where we were sleeping), I walked over with people to see the restaurant, didn't feel like eating, headed back. I sat around my room a fair bit, enjoying the AC and oh man a GREAT shower (they have a soap and shower dispenser, it's great), did some work with Brenna, Nate and Zypy on our literature blog, and that's about it for the evening. Bleh, hopefully tomorrow's transit to Delhi goes better.

Also, NOW I am missing my music. Alone in a hotel room, reading gaming PDFs and chatting online? Yeah, music time.

Sunday, January 31st, roughly 9:35-9:55 PM local time