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Another weekend out of town…
Picking up and heading to the Jersey Shore for a couple of days. Looking forward to a little irresponsibility and camaraderie.
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Back in the air
My trip to the West Coast was cut even shorter by New York snows, but was quite pleasurable;e all the same. Now I’m making use of in-Air wifi. I should have written an elaborate post before logging on so I could just cut and paste, but it didn’t happen. And now the person in front of me is in full recline, which means that my keyboard is shoved into my gut, and a lot of typing isn’t going to happen. So, LA peeps, I would have let you know I was on my way in to your fair town but as I had less than 48 hours to spend, and some special business to attend to, we’ll just have to mark it down for next time.
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Half empty?
Made it down to teach. There were moments around five this morning when I was feeling pretty dark. So much had to happen and things like MTA were not co-operating. I was functioning on very little sleep, forgetting things and slamming around the house so much that I woke my downstairs neighbor, much to my chagrin. Once I got to the train to the airport, I sat on the platform for what seemed like forever. Once I made it to the terminal I was too late to check my bag, which meant that I had to throw out new bottles of shampoo and conditioner, because they were over three ounces. When did air travel lose it luster? These days every aspect of it is cramped and cheap. Winge, winge winge. This stuff wouldn’t bother me if I wasn’t so frayed already.
But now I’m at rest in a lovely inn, recuperating and trying to assemble a to-do list. Tonight is bowling and tomorrow, teaching. For the present, I’m trying to take a little time to begin on the self organizing that I should have been doing all along. I hope it will provide me with a greater sense of caml and control to at least get a sense of the scale of what needs doing.
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The road. I am hitting it…
Heading out of town for reconnection and recreation. More work on our return.
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BRB
Stiil no bag…
But at least it is supposedly within the territorial confines of the United States. It means that I’m stuck here at home until at 1pm or something. Lehigh’s gentle snoring is serving to lighten my mood somewhat.
So here’s a picture of something I found on the street yesterday.
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I’d rather just say…
SO instead of getting all ranty about the return to Brooklyn travel meltdown, I’m going to instead talk about the great people I spent time with on either end of it.
On the Hamburg end , I met up with Heike, who was a student in the ICP program in our second graduating class. She took a brief break from her trip to Marseille via Bremen to meet up with me in Hamburg and show me around the town for the afternoon. We had talks about her time in the US (I remembered her tangles with an insane landlord the first couple months after she had arrived) and her current teaching strategies at the school where she now works, punctuated by walks around Hamburg’s boho neighborhood, which could have been Valencia Street, or Avenue A or any number of other spots given the mix of used clothing stores, cafes, graffiti splattered walls and outlests for kid robot products. It felt very homey in a disconcerting way. Heike is as smart, and sly as ever, and it was wonderful that she was so generous with her time.
Hamburg was definitely intriguing, and I hope to get back there for a longer stay at some point.
And speaking of generous, a couple of weeks ago Thor had requested my return flight into and then offered to pick me up in Newark upon my return for a dinner and then a ride home. Once I got in transit on Saturday and found out that my flight had been canceled and that I was going to be heading into another airport entirely, I called him from the airport and told him about the change, letting him know that I understood if it wasn’t going to work out. Amazingly, after all of the wrangling of customs, lost baggage, and everything else, I was met at JFK not only by him but also by Patrick and Lolita. They had braved the insane traffic of Queens in a Zipcar and after a side trip to Roll N Roaster, brought me safely home.
Thanks guys!, I’m lucky indeed to know such good people.
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Howdy from Paris!
Actually I was only there a scant hour or so.
My Travel day stated almost 24 hours ago with me waking up at 4 am Hamburg time (10 pm Brooklyn time) to catch the S-Bahn to the airport. I had a three stage flight to look forward to but after the first leg that broke down, so instead of Heading to Stockholm for a flight to Newark I ended up getting sent to Paris for a flight to JFK. Now at last I’m sitting at my desk in Brooklyn, which is more than I can say for for my big duffel bag, which did go to Stockholm and is now sitting there some place. Supposedly we’ll be reunited tomorrow or Monday.
This is by no means the worst air travel experience I’ve had, but it has been one of the more arduous ones.
There’s a lot more to add, but I don’t have the energy for it now. As it is, I’m hoping to have the energy to change the sheets and then crawl into them.
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