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It took me 16 hours to get here yesterday and then add to that a 3 hour time change. I am once more operating on less than 5 hours of sleep for the second day in a row. Very frustrating. Yesterday started off okay. I knew I had a close connection between my two flights and I was a little stressed out about that as it was but then things got worse.

Got to the airport a little after 4, checked in, and made it to my gate. We boarded at 6:30 and things were looking good for an on time departure. We rolled away from the gate and then nothing. We sat there for a few minutes. Turns out the starter on our plane was broken. Oops. Kind of need that. We then deplaned and they made us move 16 gates to a new plane. It took almost 2 hours before we were on another plane and finally ready to go. I obviously was going to miss my connecting flight. I was already scheduled to arrive in PA at 7pm, and then drive an hour. My new flight? Didn't leave until 1:30 on paper with a 9pm arrival time. In reality we didn't leave until a little after 2pm and we landed at 10:05pm local time. I had to let the hotel know, let Avis know, etc. By the time I was in the car and headed to the hotel it was 10:30pm. I didn't get here until almost midnight. Then I still had to unpack and iron.

Luckily for my long flight I had a 1st class seat. Which according to one person made me 'better than everyone else'. Here's the story; we're waiting to board and 1st is first. This woman who was not in first but was a priority (like I usually am) was blocking the lane. "I AM PRIORITY AND THIS IS THE PRIORITY LANE" she shouted at one person who asked if she was boarding for first. I turned and looked at this woman with surprise at her anger and she told me and the other woman how we thought we were superior to everyone else and that we should go fuck ourselves. Wow, okay. I get you are priority and want to board, but could you please move out of the way. She finally boarded like 30 people later and had this look of disgust as she came through the 1st class cabin to get to her seat. I hate people like that. You know why most of us are in first? Because we bust our asses through the year to get upgrades and get on the list. Don't blame us for being rewarded for being loyal. She had so much anger. Now I will say, I did enjoy my vegetable ravioli, my warm nuts, my reclining seat with footrest, and the sundae bar, but I earned it. I have worked hard for these perks and won't let you diminish them for me.

I need to figure out where I am going this morning. I have to be onsite at 8am, but not sure exactly how far it is from here. I know it's under 10 miles, but I don't know what kind of roads or traffic I am about to experience. Need to put some food in me here shortly and wake up a bit.

Tonight I am going to bed so early.