Last night I was correct except about the duration of the suck. My day sucked until about 4 pm, not noon like I had hoped. This is mostly because my mother refused to leave the house anything less than spotless, so we didn't leave the house until 2:30 and didn't get on the road until 3. And about the first hour of being on the road was with Julia, who was very unhappy and tired and just not fun to be with. Around 4 she switched with my mother driving the truck, and I get along well with my mother. Driving sucked because we kept losing radio stations and also because Butcher WOULD NOT STOP MEOWING. And it took half an hour longer to get to Schenectady than it should have because we kept stopping at rest stations to regroup, since the five of us were spread out over three vehicles (Dad in the U-Haul, Mom and me in the truck, Julia and Rachael in Rachael's car), and I had to pause to help my father find a hotel room for them for the night. And then he gave me money and told me to not be stupid and to call if I need help or if I start to get depressed or anything.

Also, I will not be not seeing my family for four months; they will be coming back to Auburn to get the stuff we couldn't fit in the U-Haul and the PODS (yes, we filled two gigantic fucking storage units with our stuff and still had left over) in a month and my father said they'd probably come to visit every month, so that will be nice.

So by the time I got to Schenectady, I was half an hour late and my lateness forced Brian to cancel dinner plans, which I feel kind of guilty for, but not too guilty because it was my parents' fault I was late. And we showed up for Rifftrax Live not too long after they opened the theater, but it was still packed and we had to sit very close to the front... so on top of my back hurting from general moving stress, my neck hurt from looking up, and my whole face hurt from LAUGHING SO MUCH because it was hilarious. I was right about being 200% less stressed now, being in good company and seeing hilarious things turned my whole mood around. I was close to tears when I got here at 6:30, now I am content.

One very funny thing which happened today: we only had one cat carrier, but two cats, so my mother's friend Sandy said we could borrow one of her cat carriers. Julia and I drove over while I held Butcher on my lap, and she brough us out the carrier and then said "Wait, let me get you a bud for the trip. You have a bowl?" I was like "uh yes?" and then she came back out with a very nice nug of weed in a prescription bottle. I had no idea Sandy smoked, she's my mother's CHURCH friend. Julia and I were stunned and amused.

So yes. Now I am here, and my rats are here, and we have plans for the next few days including going to a county fair tomorrow night, hanging out with April's brother on Friday, a concert at Tanglewood on Saturday, and I'm going to see if they would like to go to a nice restaurant on Sunday because I can afford to take them someplace nice and I'd like to thank them for putting me up for the week. And at some point we will fit in many episodes of Doctor Who, because Brian is taking it upon himself to educate me about the Doctors prior to Nine, and I will watch April's scratchy old VHS copies of Space Cases, and there will be drinking Scrabble.

And now I am very tired because I didn't get to sleep until after 4 and my mother woke me up at 8:30 and I am planning on sleeping as long as I feel like tomorrow morning, since Brian and April will be at work all day. And when I do wake up I will start doing my thesis research, but for now: just sleep. Lots of sleep. Lovely wonderful sleep.