So, it has been a wild and crazy week that had a happy ending: I made it home safe and sound!
As my previous post stated, I climbed a mountain and had a car crash on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I sold the car for scrap and found out my Wisconsin interview would be on Friday. On Thursday, three of my flights to Wisconsin were cancelled, and I was sitting in the airport for about 8 hours, and the flight I finally got on arrived in Wisconsin at 12am local time (1am eastern). So I got to my hotel at 1:30am on Friday morning, hung up all of my clothes, set alarms, etc until I finally got into bed around 2:15am. I woke up at 7am and got ready, ate breakfast, and caught a car out to my 9:30am interview. I was bombarded with interviewing people (each lasting from 15 to 30 minutes), until I had lunch with the recruiter (approx. 4 hours). Then I went out to the airport and my flight was delayed, making me switch gates three times. Finally, I made it into New Jersey at 11pm on Friday night. On Saturday, I caught two trains out to visit my godmother's family on Long Island, and we went to Fire Island and explored for several hours. On Sunday, I went back into the city and to a date that Jersey (and an alien creature claiming to be Mike) had set up. I finally got back at 8pm last night, and I have been half dead ever since. Oh, and bruises keep appearing all over my arms, shoulders, and legs (delayed from the accident I guess).
Things could have been much worse, though. No one was really hurt in the accident, I did an impressive hike on Tuesday, my Wisconsin interview went pretty well I think, I used the airport delays as an opportunity to write out thank-you letters to all of my interviewers, I really enjoyed visiting my family over the weekend (and the food was fantastic!), the date wasn't terrible (and we got to see a lot of happy gay paraders!), and I got plenty of sleep last night. And most of the bruises only hurt if I poke them or the cat decides to sit on me. And the man who drove me to and from the airport was the company's private limo and knew the president personally (they chatted on the phone during the car ride and were going to each other's kids graduation parties next weekend). And my hotel got upgraded from a Holiday Inn Express to the Beloit Inn, which is the nicest hotel in town - and the room I got was a two room suite.
So here are some pictures from my hike (Mount Tammany in Worthing State Forest):
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