cellio | in transit

I'm writing this from LaGuardia, where it's past the official boarding time and the plane isn't here yet. I suspect we'll be late.

Last night after Shabbat magid came to visit and went to JP Lick's for conversation and ice cream. (This seems to be canonical; I've gone for ice cream and conversation several times this week.) We sat at a table outside (the weather was good, not too hot nor sticky) until an employee kicked us out and we noticed that it was 12:30. Oops. :-) I don't mind; I hope magid didn't have any early-morning plans.

Several times over the week when classmates have asked me what I was planning to do that night (or what I'd done the previous night), I've said things like "have dinner with friends". People have commented on my having local friends as if it's unusual; they always want to ask where I know them from. Usually I've said something vague like "college" (technically true of some of my SCA friends, though we didn't necessarily attend the same schools) or "mailing lists". In the age of the internet, is this still that unusual? While it's not true that I know someone in every city, the last several times I've taken a trip, I've had a connection to at least one person on the other end -- even though that hasn't been the purpose of the trip. But, all that said, I found I wasn't ready to broach the SCA or LiveJournal with my classmates.

To continue the theme, when we finished up today around 12:30, I gambled and called goldsquare (who I'd failed to connect with earlier in the week). I had a 4:00 flight and was calling from Newton, so this was dicey and boiled down to "are you free right now?". Which he and his sweetie were, and we had time to have a bite in Brookline before they kindly dropped me off at the airport. I enjoyed meeting her and catching up with both of them. (Though I hadn't met her, I felt like I knew her at least a little via goldsquare's writing.)

6:04 and my 6:15 flight is just starting to board. More later.

Later: left 45 minutes late, arrived on time. Either they pad the schedule drastically or we caught one heck of a tailwind. :-)

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