up in the air, junior bluebirds

[ritaxis]

Frank is supposedly an hour and a half into his flight to Heathrow-and-then-Prague. He'll arrive in Prague 5pm local time tomorrow (8 in the morning out time).

I've been a basket case all day. So much rides on this trip. And there are so many tension points: will he be able to change his money? will he be able to get to the test site before 8 in the morning Wednesday? Will he be able to sharpen his pencils? Will he be awake enough after all this to do well on the test? Will they like him?

Will they accept him into their program?

On another front, I finally colored my hair (picture to follow when I get my camera back). Only one baby noticed. She disapproved. Her mother said she disapproved of unnatural red hair on another person she met recently, too.

He has a decent chance to get into this school. He's meant to be a doctor. He's good at all the important things and he's compassionate and smart.

He'll know Wednesday but we don't have a cell phone that works in Europe so we won't know till he steps off the plane Sunday unless he calls us collect or something.

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't expecting you to color it red! Weren't you brown originally?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Originally I was medium-almost-dark brown with almost-invisible red highlights and some bleaching in summer. I started going grey in my mid-twenties, losing the red before anything else, but I only got to more than 3/4 grey rather recently. So my choice was: normal brown, or unnatural red. I got unanimous votes for unnatural red. It's only just unnatural, though, not shockingly so.

I can't get a photo till Sunday, I think, by which time I may have faded a lot.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the picture!