my heart goes oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh!

May 02, 2009 14:28

How can anyone travel by aeroplane without shouting, my God, my God, what a miracle this is?

I love flying. As I only manage to board a plane every four years or so, I frequently forget this, but it's fantastic. I love airports, and strange people, and all of the weird compact convenience things that a plane requires (weird tiny bathrooms! tiny ( Read more... )

i love people, music for you, banui on holiday, squee!, wonderlust, the astonishing adventures of me

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papertowns May 2 2009, 20:30:42 UTC
There's someone else out there with a child-like fascination for traveling by airplane? I thought I was the only one. =D

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travellers_home May 2 2009, 21:11:16 UTC
I too had an odd experience with a flight attendant giggling her way through the announcements, but in my case, I knew what she was laughing about: the other two flight attendants (a guy and another girl) were doing their best mimes to make her crack up!

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builtofsorrow May 2 2009, 21:58:58 UTC
-grins- I love you. I think on your flight home, you should stand up and shout about what a miracle it is. Because that would be splendid.

And yay for Alaska & Kyra & you&Kyra! -spins in glee for you-

(Also, 'Sympathetic Vibrations' is almost constantly in my head nowadays. It's my 'OMG I'M MOVING TO THE CITY AND GOING TO LAW SCHOOL OMGOMGOMG' song. Hee.)

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othergoose May 2 2009, 22:43:00 UTC
This makes me really happy, I'm not sure why. Alaska! Friendly strangers! Have fun with Kyra :)

(Also, the first part of your entry made me suddenly think of this quote from the afterword of Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road.)

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sunfiremarie May 3 2009, 16:29:11 UTC
Wow this made me feel SO good thank you for sharing!!

Perhaps you're drawn to tiny worlds and flying endlessly over them because it reminds you of the faerie realm where you came from?

Maybe a particularly frisky resident of that world was visiting that flight attendant. hmmm...

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