here's what always bugs me: the plane leaves in 45 minutes, at 1pm, may 23. i fly for 16 hours or so, then arrive at JFK airport at 8:30pm, may 23 (asiana airlines flight #222, mom). oh, how the international date line vexes me so! i remember reading once some flippant technologist describing international air travel as functionally similar to a time machine: you get in, the machine vibrates a bit, and when you get out, you're in a different time and place than when you got in. okay, so that's stupid.
another thing that bothers me is that once i'm back, i'll have been around the world once -- i went to asia the first time through london, so i flew east to hong kong, and now i'm flying east again back to new york. i remember in "around the world in 80 days" they received an extra day for this trip. does this mean that soon i'll be walking around in america, an extra day older than if i hadn't gone round the world? this sounds ridiculous, so i'm probably just confused. maybe i just woke up too early this morning. okay, gotta run & catch a plane!
Posted by cce at May 23, 2003 01:27 PM | TrackBackFor shizzle, my nizzle. Give me a call when you get stateside. I'll buy you some cheezy fries with gravy. seven three two, eight eight seven, nine four six zero. Peace.
Posted by: manning at May 23, 2003 11:58 PMmmm....
Posted by: Mike at May 24, 2003 04:03 AMOh yeah, I forgot to tell you...so you can tell Sophie. Guess who is the editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com? Fuckin' Jesse Oxfeld...David Oxfeld's older brother. Crazy, huh?
Posted by: manning at May 25, 2003 01:13 AMso ERS...and you standing on un-SARS-infected soil at this very moment?? give us a call. (that would be megs and me). we'd love to see you before you go off to live in harlem. God only knows when/if we'll see you after that! :-)
Posted by: mike's mom at May 25, 2003 09:43 AM