3:30 AM Friday, February 25th- Drive to the closest airport. Pray it doesn't snow. End up leaving earlier due to "chance of snow". Sit in the airport for an hour as it's not actually snowing.
6:00 AM- Flight to Seattle that they claim is 1:30 long but is actually no longer than 00:45. There isn't even time to serve peanuts and watery orange juice.
7:00 AM-1:00 PM- Despair over the airport not having free wifi. Sit in the Borders Books in Sea-Tac. Contemplate buying books for flight. Willpower fails. Buy books. Possibly also coffee and a bagel.
1:00 PM-?????- fly from Seattle to Beijing. Total of 13 hours. Forget to reset watch, think flight is shorter than it actually is. Despair. Read books. Try to sleep. Ask for more coffee. Read 3-day-old newspapers in English and then in Chinese. Spot amusing mistranslation. Giggle madly for ten minutes. Compose myself after stewardess tells me I'm disturbing the other passengers. Pound on my keyboard. Fall asleep. Stare out the window three seats away. Rinse and repeat.
4:30 PM Saturday, February 26th- Arrive in Beijing.
4:30-8:30 PM- Revel in the fact that the Beijing International Airport has free wifi (or at least did the last time that I was there). Entertain myself. Pinch myself to keep from falling asleep and missing my flight.
8:30-10:30 PM- Fly to Ningbo. Curse the fact that I couldn't fly into Shanghai as there isn't a flight from Shanghai to Ningbo anymore. Curb zombieness.
10:30 PM- Collapse.2. When I get to China, there will hopefully be lots of China-related posts. If for some reason my usual way of circumventing Ye Great Olde Firewall (Tor) isn't, Pinkyboo will post for me. I shall not be silenced!
3. I got a second pair of piercings in my lobes yesterday, and am quite pleased with the way they turned out. This brings the total of holes in my head to eleven.
4. I have not been able to get this crazy song out of my head for the past week, so I've decided to share the misery. Long live the dragonqueen!
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