Yesterday I flew (most of the day) to Vancouver out of CLT. It's a bit of a drive up there from home, but the airline tickets were about $300 cheaper, so even with gas as high as it is and with parking ($16 a day?!) it should still be better than flying out of GSP. As a bonus, I got upgraded to first class flying from DTW to SEA, sweet! The seat at lower right was the one I got. Plenty of leg room and nice and wide seat (I slept the majority of the 4 hr flight and enjoyed the in-flight meal—they didn't serve any complimentary meals in coach, just the $5 buns from what I heard). And I still accrued 1,200 miles. It'd be nice if they upgraded me on the way home as well.
Since we don't have an opthalmologist in Clemson (that I know of), I visited one in Richmond. I wanted to make sure my retinas are in good health. This fellow dilated my pupils and took good long looks at my eyeballs before giving them a clean bill of health. A bit of a relief, although I suspect that next month's visit to the optometrist will reveal my right eye's prescription will have changed from last year. Which will probably mean new contacts again. Meanwhile, I think the basketballs in my eyes have finally shrunk back down to their normal size so I don't see halos around everything.
This afternoon I checked in to the UBC campus residences. Nice rooms at a reasonable price. Small, plain, with a kitchenette and an internet connection. Just the essentials :)
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