Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Airport

Nothing unites complete strangers like being delayed together at an airport. Beautiful women that would normally not give a second glance to that crazy guy wearing the Spain shirt, suddenly open up, sharing intimate details of their lives. Of course, this is only after they’ve spent half an hour lamenting the current state of the airline industry and explaining how this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to them.

This may or may not be happening beside me right now. And he may be a Real Madrid fan. And she might be a Liverpool supporter. Apparently they like soccer.

The previously mentioned beautiful lady and I did share a chuckle, at the expense of the singing United employee. I don’t know if they’re being instructed to sing everything into the intercom, or if she really is that happy, but it’s something to experience alright. We actually both want to smack her right now. Not that entertaining when your flights delayed.

The North Dakota State Bison mens’s basketball team is here. This is slightly coincidental, as I believe it was 2 years ago at Winter Storm that I met the NDSU women’s b-ball squad. There were some lookers on that team, although, freakishly tall women do scare me slightly. I don’t get turned on by a woman that could beat the crap out of me like some of my friends *cough* Mike Croft *cough*.

I’ve managed to watch a movie that I had downloaded while sitting here, “The Squid and the Whale”. It is quite good. The acting is superb. Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, even Billy Baldwin, who plays a former tennis pro, now instructor, who never quite made it. His high ranking being 402 in the world. It also co-stars a young Jesse Eisenberg, reaffirming to me the fact that he (no matter what my horrible judge of cinema friend Boyd might say) is a good actor. I however lost my spot at the electric outlet, and won’t have enough time to watch “Fish Tank”, which was going to be movie number 2.

I’ve continued to work my way through the tome that is “Divided Jerusalem, the struggle for the holy city”. It seeks to try and breakdown and explain the history behind the constant conflict, and struggle for control of the city, from it’s beginnings to present day. Lots of political intrigue here, with religion often being used as a pawn to promote political gain.

Anywho, about losing that power outlet, the battery is running awfully low here, so for now, this is intrepid airport reporter Graham Brown signing off. Adieu