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veekHaving jumped one hour ahead last weekend for daylight saving time in the UK, I just lost nine of 'em in flying from London to Lost Angels.
The layover in Boston included getting all my lugguage, going through customs with it and re-checking it again through to LA. Considering that this was the first time I'd ever travelled with more stuff than I could comfortably carry and/or wheel without a cart, it went pretty well. A bit tough on the nerves, as we'd left London Gatwick over 1.5 hours late, and never really regained the time until LA.
I'd bought the third Harry Potter book for plane reading, and just about finished it on the two flights. You know what? I like Harry Potter. I liked the first book completely in spite of myself. I was going to be Cool, and not give in to the Hype. Pop culture icons are generally lost on me, especially since I don't consider myself to be of any single culture. But these books are well written; indeed, so well that I have no criticism so far. Rowling's writing is on par with, say, Lindgren's and Milne's and Carroll's.
It is wonderful to be out of my now-settled-into daily routine, I like a shake-up. There will be a lot of work over the next month and a half, and I am looking forward to all of it. And people. Have I mentioned people?
Touch starvation is most acute when you realize you are touch starved. Then it gets to be a self-magnifying feedback loop.
The layover in Boston included getting all my lugguage, going through customs with it and re-checking it again through to LA. Considering that this was the first time I'd ever travelled with more stuff than I could comfortably carry and/or wheel without a cart, it went pretty well. A bit tough on the nerves, as we'd left London Gatwick over 1.5 hours late, and never really regained the time until LA.
I'd bought the third Harry Potter book for plane reading, and just about finished it on the two flights. You know what? I like Harry Potter. I liked the first book completely in spite of myself. I was going to be Cool, and not give in to the Hype. Pop culture icons are generally lost on me, especially since I don't consider myself to be of any single culture. But these books are well written; indeed, so well that I have no criticism so far. Rowling's writing is on par with, say, Lindgren's and Milne's and Carroll's.
It is wonderful to be out of my now-settled-into daily routine, I like a shake-up. There will be a lot of work over the next month and a half, and I am looking forward to all of it. And people. Have I mentioned people?
Touch starvation is most acute when you realize you are touch starved. Then it gets to be a self-magnifying feedback loop.
