The ride over was largely uneventful. I took the 82 bus to the blue line to the Clinton stop, from which I went to the Chicago Greyhound station. I caught a bus to Cleveland. That bus was full and I didn't get much sleep. In the Cleveland Greyhound Station, there was a guy lying on the floor. Officer, he said, I need help! Offser. Turned out he was drunk and, according to what he told the security officers, he has epilepsy and takes some medications. He was moaning and begging for medical assistance. It was a pitiful sight. When he took his shirts off (against the officers' protests), I could see a patch on his arm. Eventually a strechter came and he got on it and went off. I don't know if it was a hospital he went to; I didn't see any paramedics.

The bus from Cleveland to Buffalo was mostly empty and I took the back row's three seats, and dozed. In Buffalo, I met up with a bunch of other autreat attendees, and we talked awhile. We continued our conversations on the bus to Bradford, and on the Call-A-Bus from the Bradford drop off point to the campus. I enjoyed that. I was the first person into my suite. I was nervous about meeting people, but I'm okay.

I left Chicago in kind of a hurry and unprepared, so today I went into downtown Bradford to buy some food. Bradford is home of the Zippo Lighter Company.

And it has this wonderful little store run by Menonites. I remembered it from last year. I bought a big bag of granola, a bag of lemon snaps of the health food store type, a box of instant oatmeal (flavored vanilla) that has soymilk powder pre-added, taco shells (with hechsher), a large can of pineapple, a small can of mixed vegetables, and a small box of ginger snaps. Here it cost me $5.84.

Now of course, you all probably would like to know more about autistic specific autreat stuff, but frankly, I haven't really attended events. When people talk about autism politics, I generally walk away. Not interested. I'm mostly being social. Playing chess and pingpong, doing math. Walking into town and back. One of the presenters I wanted to talk to and did talk to for a few hours this morning, but I didn't go to his presentation.