Random travel thoughts
Flew back today from home to school, despite the mono. Woke up feeling pretty perky, not too much headache, no signs of fever, so it was a go. Random thoughts along the way…
They’re going to check my laptop, they’re going to ask me to turn it on and prove it’s not a bomb…. they *didn’t* ask me to turn it on, how do they know it’s not a bomb? they checked my shoes, don’t they realize that a laptop could carry a lot more explosives than a battered pair of cheap sneakers?
“Don’t agree to carry anything for anyone you do not know,” drones the PA system every five minutes. Fine, fine, I won’t. But wait… everyone past that intensive security screening has had to show valid photo ID *and* had his shoes checked. So, all that that warning does is make sure that the terrorists have to carry their own guns and stuff?
I really should learn that not all ginger ale is the rich, smooth, intense, crisp brew that is Vernor’s. There’s the other stuff, too. It’s the other stuff they serve on airplanes. Oops.
I’m going to have to get used to how people up here sound, all over again. Two short weeks (and two days) and there’s again the slight wince of pain at pretentious, whiny, self-absorbed undergrads. (And lots of others, too, not to single out the young ones.) Wait, I wouldn’t just be saying that as a pretentious self-absorbed grad student, would I? Naaah.
I might’ve had more, but I can’t think of ‘em now. Oh well.