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Sunday, May 16, 2004
I took Wednesday off this last week to see if nuncstans would have to go to jail, which happily she did not. She just has to serve her community for seven days, though people who know the judge in her case are pretty sure that her service will take the form of alcohol-swabbing the buttcheeks of homeless lepers for a week, or like Q-Tipping public toilets without gloves. Still, it's better than jail.
I don't usually post on Mondays and I rarely post on Tuesdays, so having Wednesday off made Thursday and Friday feel like Monday and Tuesday again, and you suffered for it. You are brave, and I'm sorry, again. Also, as I may have mentioned a billion times already, all my normal operations have dropped to 20% efficiency because I haven't had a vacation for too long. I leave next Thursday night, and I can already feel my feet swelling in joyous anticipation of my flight. JetBlue acts like having DirecTV embedded in every seatback is a good thing, but I really, really hate it. I always bring a book for airplane rides, and I used to be able to read at least twenty pages before getting Shanghaied by whatever heavily edited one-star movie the airline bought from the mass-exhibition-rights equivalent of the $3 used CD-bin at your favorite corporate record store (Brown Sugar, The Parent Trap, Rush Hour 2, Spy Kids 2, Tomorrow Never Dies), because no matter how curdled the cinematic pap, I can't look away from the screen. So I'd shell out for the $3 headphones at hate myself as I watched, but eventually the movie ended and I could read some more, or review the safety card (which by the way I love the idea that bending over and hugging your knees is gonna make a difference when your plane slams into a mountain at 400mph) or pester a flight attendant for nuts. But there is no esape from the DirecTV on JetBlue. Unless you crawl into an overhead compartment, or bivouac in the lavatory, or wrap your head in one of those industrial textile mill waste strips that they call "blankets," there is always a screen in your line of vision. I am pretty sure that even the cockpit has couple of screens in case the navigator gets bored. Even if you turn yours off, your neighbor invariably has the default screen up, which shows your progress in the form of an airplane icon hovering over a map of the U.S. Now granted, that's often only thing worth watching, but it makes me sad that people would rather watch the pixel plane and pixel states than actually look out the fucking window. Folks, you're too blasé by far about the fact that you're in a magical flying metal tube. Show a little awe already. 0 comments |
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