Entries this day: Bryn

Bryn

9:23am CDT Monday 26 August 2002

I feel kinda dumb for having waited until the last minute, but I haven't found out Bryn's flight information to London. I left a message on her mom's home phone, and Bryn's cell phone yesterday and this morning. Now I'm at Kinko's in Denton trying to use the breadth of the internet to find her.

Weird how a few years ago I would not have assumed I'd be able to find anyone on such short notice. Now, it's almost possible, and in a few years it will certainly be expected.

If you happen to have details on her flight, feel free to let me know!

9:49am

I feel like the kid in my long joke chasing the guy in the black hat white gloves and red cape. He's just one step behind. I learned from Steve that Bryn was in San An (of course!!!) so I have just called Art Severance who said that Bryn, Elizabeth, Katie, Bryan all left his house around 7:30 in the morning to go to DFW airport. I'm considering driving there to find them, but I'm wary of releasing my internet connectivity... Hmmm. I'll risk it.

11:44am

Took me a while to park; I didn't know there were plenty of spaces available at the top of the garage. I've explored Terminal B, talked to British Airways guy and learned that Bryn has no reservation on their flight. However, she does have a reservation for an American flight. Took a train from terminal B to terminal A. I now know what gate, what time, and that she has not checked in. But I still don't know where is Bryn.

Five hours until her flight time. Therefore 3 hours until she is supposed to be here.

12:33pm

Now I know that she has checked in. I just paged her or Bryan, but I haven't seen them yet.

1:47pm

There's a ridiculously loud screeaching droning squealing staticky squealing loud din stinging from the overhead loudspeakers. About 1 out of 10 people is covering their ears from the noise. It sounds like the finest Japanese Noise that would make any KTRU DJ proud. It's been wailing for over 15 minutes now.

No sign of Bryn.

2:02pm

Aw fuck. I can't believe I stupid I was to assume that Bryan, Katie, Elizabeth all would not have tickets. Of course they must. They're all still in school. K and E up in Minnesota, and Bryan maybe still up in Vermont or something. I've been assuming they would be equally stuck on the non-passenger side of the security gate. Damn.

I have just asked the operator to page Bryn (the squealing stopped a few minutes after I wrote last, maybe 18 or 20 minutes total KTRU music) to call the phone in front of which I am standing now. But the paging system has been silent for a long time; no way for me to tell right now if Bryn can even hear the paging system now.

Pooh.

2:20pm

The woman who told me that she had checked in saw me still waiting. She offered to look for Bryn at the gate. Wow! I waited a couple minutes and soon saw her walking the opposite direction from which she first started. Couple minutes past that she walked back with Bryn right behind. I walked up toward Bryn while facing the woman to say "you are the best!" as I hugged Bryn. So thankful and so great to hang out with Bryn for several minutes.

She seemed surprised and confused about why I would show up. I reminded her that at SWUUSI I had told her that I wanted to say Bye to her at the airport. Bryn said, "it's only going to be for four months!"

Bryn was also quite tired, after staying up late playing Silent Football. She was dictator for the game.

She had gone to New Orleans with a friend of hers, but they got bored and decided to drive to San Antonio. They had met a girl named Zoe who also needed to go to San Antonio so they offered to give her a ride. Zoe got to chill with them for a couple days at the Severances. How fun!

Melissa (Bryn's sister) and their mom are already in London. At one point Melissa asked Bryn, "so, when is mom going to get here?" Bryn had been all, "um, [didn't you know] she's already there?" Hahaha that's funny.

Bryn made her financial goal working before London, and bought a new computer. Excellent work.

Graham (Bryn's friend from OZ who got us sleeping space in the house in Actontown) is going back to OZ soon. Don't know when exactly. Bryn has a week or so before school, so hopefully he'll be there that long at least.

I told her some of my adventures, told her about Bronwyn calling me, but us not getting to hang out in Helena. Told her where I had been staying and that I would get to work for Janette again this week (probably tomorrow)

Hugs to Bryn as she went back through the security gate with an hour to spare (she wanted also to get some food before going) and then I super-thanked the woman at the reservations counter who had gone back to the gate to find Bryn. I still don't really know how/if she easily identified Bryn.

Rode the terminal train back to Terminal B, walked across two airport roads and a parking lot to get to the garage where I parked. Five dollars to the parking guy and drove back to Denton.