adult angst.........

ok, so today is my freebie day-off......one of those little surprises afforded by my newlife in public health......and so i started out with breakfast out with my spouse after we dropped the daughter off at school......the hub was happening this morning....with ken k. reading in the window.....and david's dad interviewing a prospective pol-sci guy....... when introduced i said something lame like...we are big fan's of dan's son david...which is true, but somehow not the thing to say at the time......ah well.....and i took advantage of the free wi-fi to answer the return email about how hard it will be to find a ride home for thanksgiving from up-east.....and i regretted for the umpteenth time that i didn't buy a ticket for the middlechild way back when he got his acceptance letter....when the prices were decent.....but i hesitated...and when i checked back the tickets were outrageous and now there are no tickets to be had ......my spouse recalled using a 'ride' board at wooster to find transportation....he once rode from ohio to l.a. with someone he found on the ride board....sight-unseen for a 24 hour drive........i understand that there is an eerieness about looking for rides with strangers...but not nearly so much as hitching.......one could safely assume that the princeton folks who have rides to offer must have some level of decency.......maybe there is a ride board on campus.............and there is always facebook to ckeck out the options.......