Blogher, Recap, Post 2, Chicago

July 26, 2007

Night, Hi-Chicago 10:42 Central Time

When I left you, I was watching The Hustler and I only got about five minutes into it before we started to land. It’s been cloudy in Chicago, but the torrential rainfall that delayed us and canceled other flights around the country were not in sight.

It is not a dry heat here.

As a came out of the jetway, I got hit with how itty bitty the airports I normally have dealings with really are. Here, throngs of people, and me, mixing it up with them.

I found the subway with relative ease, and noticed something very quickly – Germans are everywhere. I found them on the subway, in the hostel, on the street. It’s an invasion and they are confused and quick to get irritated, yet bound and determined to see the world. This amuses me because I can understand them muttering about the inadequacies of our systems. “Ick versteh’ nit wie das hier geht. Irgandwie blöd das ganze System. Was machen wir jetzt?”

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Blogher, Semi-Live, Post 1, Getting There

July 26, 2007

Mid-Flight, Thursday, 7/26/07 11:46 Mountain Time

I am writing this post at thirty-one thousand feet, the sky is clear, but I’m not sure where we are. I fell asleep a bit ago and trying to calculate it via the time on my computer and the time that the pilot specified since I didn’t bring a watch, so we might only have a half hour. Or an hour, this whole computation involves numbers, and English majors need none of that.

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