Today’s the day….Chicago here I come. 10:40 am flight from John Wayne Airport to Chicago Midway. Ye typical preparatory things….shampoo and soap into bags and into suitcases, making sure my pockets are empty of anything that would give me…..special attention from TSA. Not that TSA does crap anyways….me being able to sneak a pair of nail clippers through the metal detector at DIA is evidence enough of that, imo.
As I sat on the plan, waiting for the rest of the people to board, and for the flight attendants to go through their typical pre-flight routine, I realized that the movie Airplane! takes place on a flight to Chicago. Hence the title of this post, in case you were wondering. Good thing I brought the movie with me….a movie about a plane in trouble’s exactly the kind of flick I want to watch on a three and half hour flight. Can’t deny the humor though….I’ll just leave it at that, or else this would end up as nothing but my favorite lines from the movie.
On the plane now, having just started Airplane! Fantastic as always. Hopefully the people next to me don’t need to use the bathroom…I’m about to stop typing, full screen the movie, and fall asleep. Well….if they do, we’ll see just how much work it takes to wake me up on a flight.
Finished Airplane!....I have a row of sleepers, which is nice…I can drift in and out without having to worry. On to Some Like it Hot...another nice omen, considering the movie starts with an interpretation of the St. Valentine’s Day murder in Chicago.
After the above (which was typed on the plane) I landed in Midway around 4:30 Central Standard Time and caught a cab to Canterbury Court Apartments. Settled in, got my key, and met my roomie, Jason. All in all a cool dude. Went and found myself some pizza....sadly it wasn't deep dish. It was this place that makes the pizza but doesn't cook it....you get to cook it yourself. It was pretty good.
The only issue is that my apartment, though equipped with modem and router, has no working internet as of now...I'm sitting at a Barnes and Noble right now using their free wi fi. I'm told that hopefully something will be done by Wednesday.
Oh yeah....Canterbury Court is an old apartment complex that is 17 stories high. Guess who's on the top floor and afraid of heights? If you guessed me, you'd be right.
Today (day after flight), I slept in a whole lot....flying wears me out. Then, the 15 of us in the program met up and had dinner with our professors (Thai food) and sat around talking for a good long while. The people I talked to were all very awesome...it should be a fun semester, all in all.
Tomorrow we get to tour the library and be told how things work there, etc. We also get to go on a scavenger hunt around Chicago to find dinner ingredients for a group pot-luck....that should be fun (and photo opportunities everywhere). Photos from yesterday, and tomorrow will be incoming as soon as I have a reliable internet connection in my apartment....so hopefully on Wednesday.
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