This morning I'm flying out to Dallas for a job interview and more importantly meet up with Azy. The sucky part about it all though is that I got here at about 4:30 am (waking up at 3:15) for a 5:45 flight so I can make it to the interview at 11 am. Because I'm being flown on a private jet rather than commercial airline, the depature time has been pushed back by a half hour to compensate for the heavy traffic of runways. So now I'm sitting here it's 5 am wide awake because I chugged a sbux having nothing to do
Brian
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 5:02amOh also I hate this freaking artifical air they have in this airport, its just smells fake.
Qyn
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 6:08amH8 air travel.
Fap
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 7:06amlrn2airtrvl
The worst is if you're a smoker and the airport has one of those smoking lounges. Usually they are a big glass fish bowl, opaque with thick stale smoke and like 40 pathetic-looking guys just sucking away. Jesus, I'm glad I quit. Those things suck.
N8
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 7:11amI hate flying so much that it takes 2 valiums and a Bloody Mary to get me into a plane...
Andersen
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 11:22amWell, I love flying.
Vasya
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 11:58amI hated flying until very recently. Now I'm kind of excited to try it out again, but I'm still a bit scared.
15
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 12:26pmJohn
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 12:32pmGood luck on your interview - what job are you applying for?
Are you going to meet up with Ari too?
Qyn
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 1:09pm3sum.
olo.
Beth
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 1:40pmI find traveling in general kind of lame, but I prefer flying simply because it's faster, and thus less time is spent being bored to tears.
And by traveling, I mean I hate the traveling process. I love going and seeing new places, I just hate the boredom and cramped-ness that occurs on most options of transport. I do enjoy road trips, where the traveling is more aimless and getting someplace specific is less of the point. But if I'm trying to get to a specific place for a certain period of time, I guess I'd say I'd prefer flying.
Actually, I really like riding trains. Unfortunately, they are more expensive than I wish they were (I've often been able to fly for a similar amount of money), and often not any faster than cars, which I find kind of lame.
Fap
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 7:03pmtrains are definitely the way to go. fast travel by land is so awesome for sight-seeing. the train systems in Europe and Japan are just awesome. why can't the US have a good train system? why does it have to be the great, flapping pillar of suck that is Amtrak?
Tigue (not verified)
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 8:36pmI'd really like to be able to take more train trips. While traveling between school and Vasya for my senior year I'd bring thesis reading on the train (hey, it was 5 hours of internet free time) and decided it'd be really cool to have a school that was on a train. There was (is?) a high school in Vermont that took students all over the globe and still expected them to write papers and take finals and all the usual school stuff. I figure staying in the country and going by train would be easier than that, no?
15
Fri, 07/06/2007 - 9:53pmI love trains. One of my friends and I used to take the train up to Seattle once in a while to visit his uncle or my grandma. I took a 19 hour bus ride down to southern California once too. I think the trip down was actually like 16 hours, and the trip back up was 20ish. It totally sucked.
Azyrael
Sat, 07/07/2007 - 5:56pm3some. /no
2some. /yes
Amy totally ignored us for her parents. lame-o.
Brian
Sun, 07/08/2007 - 6:32pmTrains in Canada are vast superior to the ones I have riden in United States. I use to take the one from Windsor to London all the time.
I made the mistake of riding a bus from Detroit to Chicago that was a 8 hour drive that should of been 5 hours. The worst part was that we were last on the stop and had to sit in random places (I was placed next to a guy that ate the smelliest sub ever)
Luckily DFW rocks, its perfectly logical in its layout and design. When I got on the plane back from dallas, it literally took off within 15 minutes , which is incredible.
15
Sun, 07/08/2007 - 6:55pmLE SIGH
15
Sun, 07/08/2007 - 6:55pmLE SIGH
Brian
Sun, 07/08/2007 - 7:47pmI applied for a job doing IT Security , it was the oddest interview I ever been on. The data from what they say is so hush hush they never really talked about it. It was hard to talk about my ability to tackle the job with a subject when they wouldnt even tell me about what they got going on in their own network structure. All this I found quite ironic though after I realized they don't have any means of backup of this data besides a Raid 10, silly people
Tigue (not verified)
Mon, 07/09/2007 - 7:40amThat sounds like something Woody Allen would direct, if he knew anything about IT.
Qyn
Mon, 07/09/2007 - 8:38am*shrugs*