Some thoughts, live from the Cleveland airport as I try to figure out when my flight is leaving... it was supposed to be at 8:30, it's looking closer to 11:30 now.
- I'm glad this airport has free wi-fi. The Atlanta one only let you go to Atlanta tourism sites, which was kind of annoying. And I wasn't going to pay for internet. I feel like for the amount of time you could potentially spend in an airport, they should have free wireless.
- I saw someone calmly walk through one of the new airport scanners in Atlanta, and no one threw a fit or got molested. Just for the record.
- I grabbed dinner a few minutes ago in a sports bar and watched Ben Roethlisberger shove someone after a play and then get knocked flat by the other guy. I might be a bad person for laughing at this. However, he's not exactly been campaigning for ideal citizen lately, so maybe I'm not a totally bad person. Don't question my sleep deprived logic there please.
- It's weird to be flying home for Thanksgiving. I think this is the first time my destination is home, versus flying home after flying somewhere else.
- I have learned today that Cleveland is in the very northern part of Ohio, on lake Erie. I did not know this.
- I watched a guy in his 30s stand up from a table and his chair launched backwards with the weight of his backpack hung on the back. My generation, we're going to have some serious spinal cord issues in a few decades.
- Continental gets some points for giving us food vouchers to compensate for being stuck in the airport several extra hours. Granted, it would have been better if they did this earlier before I ate dinner, when there were actual restaurants still open, but I got $11.50 worth of dunkin' donuts for free, so its not all bad. The grad student in me is perfectly okay with being compensated for my time in donuts.
- In the future, I'm going to educate myself on the kinds of planes available to fly on so I choose something slightly bigger than today's 'bird', as the stewardess said, than 1 seat on the left and 2 on the right. I should at least be able to pick out something with overhead luggage compartments on both sides.
- I also feel like it would be useful to know where the plane I choose to fly on is coming from. But then, I suppose no one would choose to fly on a plane coming from Chicago or a bunch of other places, which is my current problem.
- I looked at a airline brochure and it looked like this airport is huge. Um, it's not. Everything shut down at 10pm and I think the only reason people are still here is because we are waiting on our late plane and like one other late plane. Nightflights, apparently not big here.
- I'm going back in forth between listening to bad Mariah Carey Christmas songs on the loudspeaker radio, and getting the theme song from the Drew Carey show, 'Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rock!' lodged and dislodged in my head.
- It's too bad I'm so exhausted from keeping a messed up sleep schedule the past few days, I probably could have gotten a lot of work done :P
For the record, just the IDEA of Ben Rothilsburgercopter being shoved on his butt after starting stuff with another player made me laugh.
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