chickenfeet

I am one of those people who has the "frustrated journey" dream/nightmare fairly frequently. The one where one never finishes packing, misses the plane, luggage is left behind, the plane inexplicably goes to the wrong place etc etc.

Today the dream became reality. I went out intending to get

lemur_catta's birthday present and go to the sports medicine clinic at Mt. Sinai. The intended gift was, to the best of my knowledge, only available from one store about two miles away. I walked because I had some stuff i wanted to drop off on the way. I got to the store only to be informed that intended gift was now carried exclusively by another store. That meant backtracking. Worse, had I known, I could have gone to a different and much closer branch of store. I got the gift and grabbed a quick lunch. Note to self; when you get up at 6am, 2pm is too late to eat your first meal of the day.

So to Mt. Sinai where the deal was supposed to be that one could sign up for the clinic at 3pm to be seen in sign up order starting at 4pm. The lady at Information told me that they no longer had that clinic (not since SARS!!) but that if I went up to the department I would be able to make an appointment. I couldn't (of course) but they gave me the number to call. I've tried several times. It's always engaged.

I am supposed to pick

lemur_catta up at the airport at 8pm. I hope this isn't an omen.