Airport Luck

I don't spend much time in NYC.  I went there (theRe, I should say, keyboard fixed!) for a week long vacation once in college before I studied abroad and got to do things like go up the Statue of Liberty.  And in college, we did day trips every year in December to go Christmas shopping.  And I was in New York for just over a week the year I ran the NYC marathon, but the weekend before the race was spent upstate at a wedding and I worked when I was in the city, so not really much NYC tourist time, or much NYC airport time.  I may have also passed through when one of my brothers was playing ball for a minor league team upstate (Go Tri-City Valleycats!).  Anyway, that's a sum of my NY experience. 

In the last five years, I don't think I've been there at all until recently.

As much as Laguardia sucks as an airport, it might be my new favorite solely because of this: 

 

Hopefully those pictures are clear enough.  This was in the USAirways terminal I think. 

 

First, there was a salad bar.  A legit, delicious salad bar.  With beets!!!  That should give you some idea of the selection.  And it all looked fresh and good.  That to me is the perfect travel food.  Next time I'm there, I'm totally making a salad on my way out of the airport, so I get to double up! 

 

Next, there was this grocery-store style wall.  Sushi, yogurts, juices, some prepared foods, and all seemed fairly normally priced and looked like things I'd gladly eat.

 

I wish more airports had stuff like this.  Philly has a salad place right near my usual gate, but it's one where they build the salad for you.  I like it when I get to load it up in exactly the proportions I want.  And I love having all these other choices.

 

Makes me wish I went through Laguardia on all trips.  Anyway, lots of work travel fun lately.

Jet Set Bunch

It's funny to be watching the news and to hear about the economic crisis in Greece, to hear banks are closed for 6 days, and to immediately go to FB to get the straight scoop because you know that you have THREE SEPARATE friends there on vacation right now.


Kind of cool!  Two law school friends are there (one is in Mykonos, not sure where the other is), as well as one colleague. 


It was weird to feel so international.


In the interest of full disclosure, if this economic crisis had happened in January, or February, or April, or May, I would have known exactly zero people in Greece on vacation off the top of my head (one went in March).  But three there now.


Wonder if the level of suck they are experiencing is low, medium or high.  I would guess low in Greece.  So many places there take credit cards.  Unlike Italy.  Separate post, but we've actually been requested to send a wire transfer to put a deposit on a B&B.  WTF?  A wire transfer?  Anyway, in places like China or India where you use more cash and less credit, no ATM would be a huge pain.  In Greece, assuming you weren't planning to hit the ATM in the next day or two, going 6 days without cash might not be the end of the world.  Still, looking forward to getting first-hand accounts.  Definitely a cool thing about worldly friends. 

Lawyers

Just have to say that today, I am so proud to be one. 


Proud of our country, proud of our Court, proud of the lawyers, proud of it all.


(Still scared to live in Texas, but glad our Attorney General is apparently just being ignored by the counties.)


I've always thought single-issue voters were making a big mistake, but at the same time, even though I lack "standing," the issue of marriage equality has meant a lot to me over the last xxx??? years.  I'm happy it should be a non-issue going forward. 


Such a proud day!!! 
My FB feed is full of rainbows and hearts, and thanks to that whole "top ten law school" education, lots of insightful commentary about the opinion.  Detailed analysis of the impact of different dissenting opinions and who joined which, who wrote which, etc.  The law nerd in me is voting today as the best day in a long time. 

Excuses

Why have I not seemed to have anything to say lately?  Well, I believe I have a fabulous excuse.  See below. 

You'd be amazed how many bits of the English language contain that specific letteRRRRRRR. 




Haha, should be fixed at some point today.  Until then, I'll just keep on avoiding all wo...ds with that in it.  Ugh...  It is excessively easy to say that but excessively difficult to do it...