I'm sitting here in my favorite nook at Uris Library at Cornell. It's just across from where Yoram Szekely, esteemed librarian, kept a "Comments and Suggestions" notebook during my freshman and sophomore years. Where once was a faded denim three ring binder, with cardstock pages divided into a question area at the top and a response area at the ( Read more... )

To be kept at arms reach during a flight.

• a GPS (not only can I now know exactly where I am at all times, I can log my track so I have a record of what I passed over, and make a waypoint for anything I want to look up later.)
• binoculars (to more closely investigate features of the landscape below),
• iPod loaded with music podcasts (just realized that ( Read more... )

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I tried to going to my livejournal by typing "cy" and selecting the autocompleted url. Instead, I was whisked off to CyprusAirways.com.

I resisted making a reservation, though Paris and Vienna are tempting (and Cairo and Frankfort and . . .).

So I'm pulling up to Petroglyphs National Monument...wait, I've already used that style of opening TWICE already.


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So I'm flying to Albuquerque on Southwest today. Managed to snag a window seat, even though I was nearly the last person in boarding group B. I see this kid coming down the aisle. Kind of cute, actually. All that's left at this point are center seats and he chooses to sit next to me. I'm not terribly chatty on planes, so I don't strike up a ( Read more... )