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Saturday
We stop for dinner. I don’t know what city
1:05 AM
who picked it out. I know we are in Ohio,
We’re in Madison! I’m starving since I was too lazy to climb over my seat buddy to get my cooler out of the overhead bin earlier. We stop at a mall and I scan the options in the food court. Sadly, there’s nothing there that won’t kill me. Food allergies are fun, amiright? I settle for the Starbucks in the ®
bookstore across the hall. It’s a good thing that caffeine has a negligible effect on me or the two triple shot mochas that I’ve had in the past six hours might have made trying to nap later a bit difficult. Sometime later in the afternoon: We find ourselves in the middle of Downtown Chicago. Pro tip: unless your bus driver is basically a pro, don’t try this. Our bus driver was a pro, so except for the odd rouge hostile driver sharing the road with us we were good.
6:03 PM
we’re in now, even though I’m the one
12:22 PM
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though. There’s a Culver’s here, so I finally
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We finally head to bed. Instead of setting an alarm, I set a timer for 2 hours.
get to eat a hot meal. Their wheat-free food
3:31 AM
is pretty good, actually, and is usually my
I have overslept, of course. I’m still the
choice for on-the-road meals. Once we get
first one up, so I get some quality time
back on the bus, we learn that the events
with the awesomely large mirror.
tomorrow will be starting earlier than had been planned, so we now have to leave the
4:15 AM
hotel at 6:00 instead of 6:30. Sleep sets in
My companions awaken. I’m not very far
again.
along, mainly because I’ve got so much
10:58 PM (9:58 PM, Minnesota time)
hair that needs to be tamed. Even though I got up a full forty-five minutes before they
We pull up in front of the hotel. In no time
did, we all finish our hair at the same time.
at all, everyone has their room key and is
Time to start makeup, and feeling ambi-
heading upstairs. Instead of going to sleep
tious, I put on two pairs of false eyelashes
like responsible people who are planning
and achieve unanticipated success.
on waking up at 3:00 AM, my roommates and I watch an uncountable number of
5:45 AM
Beyoncé’s music videos on YouTube. Good
Everyone’s downstairs and ready to go.
decision, right? We rationalize it by claim-
We board the bus and head off to the con-
ing it’s motivational material.
vention center. Check-in goes smoothly,
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and we file into the ballroom and start