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Well, we’re in Chicago! We left GR at about 7:00 this morning, and got to Chicago at 6:45. Time travel!
The only snag so far – my shiny new camera won’t turn on. It worked last night, but not this morning. The battery might have drained? I don’t know – but it is truly annoying. I do have the camcorder, so I’ll be using that – but I really wanted the opportunity to take a whole load of still photos, too.
Other than that – the giant plane is here, we’re at the gate, and I’m looking foward to just being able ot sit and work/sew/read for a good long time.
More updates when I get to Shanghai!
OK – This May is going to be very strange, and I thought I’d do my best to keep this blog up, if only for Mom, Dad, and M. Hi, by the way.
What makes it strange? Well, on Friday I’m going to China for 10 days, and then after a week back home, I’m off to Croatia for a week. Both are tangentially work related – I’m going with 7 students to perform Shakespeare (them, not me. I’m just the dramaturg) in Shanghai. I’m going to Croatia for a conference on my area of research – so much different purposes.
Tonight – I’m packing, cleaning, (I have several colleagues coming in pre-Kalamazoo tomorrow), and watching the DVR’d American Idol results show. This way, I can fast forward through all the time-wastinig stuff that they do.
I’m just realizing that I meant to learn a lot more Chinese. I don’t think a plane ride (even a 14 hour one) will do much to improve that.
On that note – what will I do with those 14 hours on the plane?
- Read – I’ve got Jane Eyre (for the independent study I’m guiding this summer), a brief history of the Russian Orthodox Church (for the Croatia paper), and The Forsyte Saga (for fun).
- Sew – provided the TSA lets me keep my needle and scissors.
- Code – I’ve got a 7 hour battery life on my comptuer, and a backlog of manuscript pages that need to be put into XML for an editing project.
- Sleep – If I’m lucky; I don’t sleep on planes very well. Actually, it’s the sleeping in public thing. Very hard for me to do.
- Write – That Croatia paper is mostly vague notions right now.
- Randomly stare out of the window, at the in-flight entertainment, at the little map on the monitor – This can take up a surprisingly large chunk of the flight, or it least it did on my various European trips.
I guess we’ll see. I just hope that the person in front of me decides to NOT recline the seat for the whole flight and that there isn’t an annoying child behind me.
