1. People treat you differently if you appear to be a lone female traveler; elderly ladies assume you read Nora Roberts too and most men tend to think you really want to talk to them. But often you get more pretzels.2. Maized and confused is a cool snack name (stay tuned for photograph-- more about why later)
3. My flight attendant's cat was apparently bilingual and answers to both OS-car and os-CAR. Sadly poor OS-car/ pauvre os-CAR is no longer with us. It was very sad. I saw a picture of him.
4. Having an entire back row to one's self for a 4 hour flight is pure luxury.
5. It's heartening to see a big burly dude with a Semper Fi shirt reading "The Root of Rejection" and reading about how he too can "be free from the effects of rejection!"
6. If you were to have your entire journal from 1995 to present on your laptop, it's probably not a good idea to fully recline your seat so that the person in the row behind you has a clear and direct view of your screen.
7. It's mighty distracting to imagine what the root of the marine dude's rejection might be. Romantic? Vocational? Political? Anthropological? (I don't know how one can be anthropologically rejected but thought it sounded cool)
8. Putting on one's iPod has about an 90% effective rate for signalling "Please leave me alone."
9. It's agonizing to wonder if, by rebuffing his early morning small chat with a smile and a nod, I have unwittingly contributed to the burly dude's overall sense of rejection. Ack!
10. Le pere d'os-CAR said he'd buy me a drink next time I was on one of his flights.
11. My new friend Khalil does not see iPod headphones as impediments to conversation and that's ok because he was an interesting guy.
12. It's mighty tempting-- especially during take off and landing when my own book is safely stowed beneath my seat and my tray table returned to its upright and locked position-- to ask the big burly dude "so... what _is_ the root of your rejection? Did you get dumped?"
13. There are times when someone's entire journal from 1995 onward is much more interesting than Virginia Woolf's early novels.
14. If you're going to read your journal on a really big screened laptop, reduce the font from 22 pt. Or don't use first and last names. I now know someone named _______ is a bad word.
15. When Oscar Wilde said "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train," I don't think he would have considered progress on the Atkins diet to be sensational.
16. There are 6 million Iraqi refugees and the population of Iraq is 23 million
17. Even though I really didn't want to read someone's laptop journal, having it a foot away was more tempting than I could ever have imagined.
18. If I ever do write or read my journal on a laptop on a plane I will reduce my font size.
19. According to one particular laptop journal, the life of a novelist is one filled with rejection (maybe the Marine should have loaned him his book!), backstabbing and mean people.
20. Other people's journals are just as dull as my own.
21. Apparently you really can lose 50 lbs on the Atkins diet. But you'll really miss bread.
22. If I ever do write or read my journal on a laptop on a plane, I will write things like "Colin Firth asked me to marry him again (underline "again" 3 times) but until Derek Jeter and I call it quits for sure, I just can't say yes" instead of "today I found a really neat snail in a package of impatiens I bought from Canadian Tire."
23. Yorkshire Terriers are pretty cute and remarkably well-behaved when tucked into a handbag for take-off and landing.
24. Seeing a "Honk if You Like Wookies" bumper sticker on a pilot's flight bag makes me want to reconsider taking Northwest Airlines.
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