8:04AM, World Tower I’m writing this as I’m sitting in our little lookout room on the 62nd floor of our hotel room. It’s still foggy out, but there is a faint rainbow in the middle of the scene. The last few days have been hectic. Monday my flight left at 11:30AM, got in to LAX at 2PM, and I had to wait until 10PM to board my flight to Sydney. My carryon weighs, well, I don’t know the actual number; and I don’t want to know. I had to pack 12 days worth of stuff into it, covering both my orientation now and the pre-semester trip up to the Great Barrier Reef on Sunday. However, it turns out that my entire luggage is in my bedroom right now, so it was completely unnecessary to do that. ... read more