San Antonio, Day Five

I'm at Cups in Fondren relaxing.

I woke up a little before 7 a.m. in a San Antonio hotel room. I got ready for breakfast & saw that I still had a little time. and so I did a little packing.

At 8:30, I went to the hotel restaurant and had breakfast with my director and supervisor. We finished at 9 a.m. I went back to the hotel room and finished packing. I made it to the front desk a little before 9:30. When I checked out, my director showed up to tell me that our taxi had arrived.

We loaded the luggage and got in the taxicab. The driver took us to the airport-- chatting with us all the while about Mississippi casinos.

We made it to the San Antonio airport at not quite 10. It took us a few minutes to get everything checked in, but once done. Everything was cool.

We had a little over an hour to kill. I finished reading The Known World and started working on At Swim-Two-Birds in earnest. I'll be making an official announcement on the book club site about it in a few days, but it will be the next book we'll be reading. I talked to Maggie about it less than an hour ago. Because it had taken a week for my copy to arrive, I wanted to be sure there'd be copies on hand at Lemuria when I announced the next book.

San Antonio to Houston is a short flight, but we only had 35 minutes to make the flight to Jackson. We were extremely fortunate in that the plane we were flying in from San Antonio would be the same one we would take to Jackson. We had a chance to get something to eat and drink.

We arrived in Jackson just before 3 this afternoon. While waiting for my hanging bag at baggage claim, an older friend of the family from my hometown was waiting on a friend. She was recognizable, but I'd not seen her in at least ten years not since when her son was attending graduate school at Mississippi State at the same time I was. We chatted for a little while until her friend's luggage arrived and then she left.

I left baggage claim and my uncle was in his SUV right in front. I put the luggage in the back and we drove off to his business in Richland where my car was parked.

I'll be back at work tomorrow morning at 8.