Woke at 4:30 AM and took a cab to campus where I caught the Coach USA bus to O'Hare Airport. My Delta flight left around 11:00 AM for JFK airport in New York. JFK needs to work on its scheduled maintenance plan; the halls are dirty and crowded, and there is unfinished construction in many places. Around 4:30 PM, my Delta flight left for Athens. The flight was about 3/4 full, so there were plenty of seats. Unfortunately, my seatmate sounded as though he had recently left the TB ward, but with a long pit stop at the departure lounge which allowed for his TB to become well pickled. He was also highly inquisitive of the young lady sitting nearby. Both she and I managed to secure alternative seating, leaving our friend to have a five seat bench for his long eight hour nap. It did all of us good. I spent most of the flight reading David Brooks' new book, "The Social Animal" on my Kindle. It is a fine read, with pithy observations on life in 2011.
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