Perhaps there's something good about a 6AM flight, but you haven't discovered it yet. A 7AM flight and you're up a bit before five, which feels very responsible. Like you're a go-getter, ready to jump into the day hours before everyone else ( Read more... )

If you're in need of procrastinatory material today, allow me to recommend McSweeney's Lists. Not all are funny, but the funny ones are funny indeed.

My current favorite: Sure Signs Your Vegan Co-op Has Been Taken Over by the Marx Brothers, which includes:

Any attempt you make to have a serious dialogue about environmental sustainability is ( Read more... )

I am the road warrior ( Read more... )

Home, for the first workday in about two weeks. I took a look at the Northwest website yesterday and discovered that I've flown 41,882 miles in the past two months. Even for me, this is a lot of travel - I flew about 70,000 miles on Northwest last year, a few thousand on other airlines... With trips to Japan, Egypt and South Africa in May, I'm ( Read more... )

I need new glasses. And, because I've failed to shave my head, grow a goatee or lose 30 pounds, these glasses are likely to be the major fashion statement I make for the next, oh, three years or so ( Read more... )

The best thing about my house? kassrachel lives here ( Read more... )

Fickle, swift, noble Mercury, god of the messenger, the roadway, and the frequent business traveller, hear my prayer. Somehow I have displeased you, though I know not how. When thou smilest upon me, my path is made straight, and I am Upgraded and my flights are First Class. But when thou hast turned against me, my flight is turbulent and the " ( Read more... )

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I believe in travel karma. I try to tip well, in restaurants, cabs, and hotels to appease the gods and build up my store of positive travel karma. I try to smile in airports, recognizing that the security screeners are just doing their job (though, I will admit, this gets harder and harder to do). I try to be a happy, cooperative customer in the ( Read more... )

About a year into our professional relationship, colleague J. and I started referring to each other as "second spouses". It happened in Egypt, where it's much easier to travel as a woman if you're married. I suspect that our faux marriage is possible only because we're both married, both passionately in love with our respective spouses, and deeply ( Read more... )