Chillin' at the Airport

Hello, since I have an extremely long layover in Washington DC, I thought I'd take advantage of my enjoyable 5 hour stay to write another post.  To update you about the pleasures of airports, that is.  Because I'm sure you all really want to hear about it.  But I'm bored, so I apologize!

The flight from Raleigh to Dulles was uneventful, we literally took off and then 10 minutes later started the descent, now that's my kind of flight!  I know that when I'm sitting on my next flight struggling through the 7th hour, and knowing that I'm not even halfway there...I'll look back and be very jealous of my previous self.  There were absolutely no interesting (and by interesting, I mean crazy) passengers on my flight unfortunately.  Nobody yelling obnoxiously to their blackberry while waiting on the runway, no overheard wildly inappropriate conversations, nobody dressed up in any bizarre hats.  That one's not too far off, believe it or not, last year I saw a guy at LAX wearing a turkey hat on his head.  I mean, thankfully it was around Thanksgiving, but it's still a sighting one should take advantage of.  By texting multiple friends a picture taken on the sly, of course.  I'm sorry that I have nothing that comes close to that level of interest to inform you about.  But believe me, if there was something juicy, worth sharing, I wouldn't hold back!

This terminal is pretty fancy, by the way, on top of the wireless internet, there's even a Chipotle!  However, it's not at the top of my airport list because the Starbucks is located inside the "News Connection" magazine place.  What blasphemy.  My last Starbucks experience for at least 5 months wasn't even a real one at that.  Instead of relaxing on a purple plush armchair and gazing at framed posters with scenic farms and coffee beans, I'm sitting at a small table right next to the travel neck pillows, "NObama" shirts, and the $10 Pashmina scarf stand.  Although I am in the prime location to people watch the passerby's, and if someone particularly interesting walks by I don't look too creepy because if caught staring I can just pretend that I'm really concentrating on my laptop screen.  It's working out pretty well so far.  The only noteworthy sighting was a little Asian toddler with spiky pigtails that was making her dad jump over the tile lines on the floor.  He was a good sport, poor guy!  But that's about it so far.  I still have 4 more hours, so there's still hope.

Yesterday I was thinking that I should have goals for this trip, or at least a few things that I should make sure to do while I'm away.  One that I came up with was to interject "y'all" sporadically into conversations, which I figure will have 3 purposes. 1) to conduct a social experiment to see how many people actually understand what I said, 2) to entertain myself while noting confused/polite facial expressions, and 3) to educate people about the convenience of merging two very long words: "you", and "all" into 1 easy-to-say package.  I personally really enjoy saying "y'all" and I think that I want to try start a trend.  That was the only goal I've come up with so far, but I'm sure I'll discover other noteworthy aspirations along the way.  Normally I'm a very serious, goal-oriented person, but now that I think about it maybe my 2nd goal should be to have non-serious goals for the next 7 months.  I'll work on it.

Well I will stop rambling, because my stream of consciousness/verbal diarrhea is stemming from my boredom, and not really because I have anything particularly interesting to say.  I'll post again when I get to South Africa and manage to MacGyver some wireless internet for my laptop!  

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