Blog #1

So as I write this I am very cramped. I can’t really extend my right arm at all to type comfortably.

I am well over halfway done with this horrific stretch of my journey. I suspect this will be the worst of all the flights I must make. The announced flight time was 9hr and 20mins… too long for one ass to be sat on. Mine is, in a word, stiff. I’ve tried all the tricks I know to alleviate this, and nothing is working. I’ve tried shifting cheeks...well…I guess really the only trick I know, but I’ve tried it.

Two of the things I like about airports.
1)The phenomenal people watching.
2)The bookstore selection. They only carry “Classics” and books that are currently the rage (I.e. Twilight) and they carry TONS of copies of them. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think of this as a negative, I genuinely think it’s cool.

Not a long list I had more but I’ve forgotten um. That was hours ago.

I have a new limb to add to the ones I cannot move comfortably- my left leg. Drat.

My computer says it is 8:14 which means I’ve been airborne for doodoodoo (That’s a calculating noise) about five and a half hours which is long time. I’m proud that I could wait so long before getting out the ol’ laptop…which I’ve decided (just now) needs a name.

Come to think of it, I haven’t really even listened to my IPOD yet either. Early in the flight I attempted to do some reading and listening but I made a critical mistake. You have to have the right kind of music on to pull this off (reading w/ headphones on a flight). You can’t have a cd playing that is so good it distracts you from reading but you cannot have the inverse either…I mean a bad cd gives you the same dilemma. You have to put on, as Rob from High Fidelity put it, “Something I (You) can ignore”. I chose GZA’s Liquid Swords which for me is very difficult to ignore. I can do it, but not if there isn’t something/someone who can capture my attention, which was not the case during take off.

So far I’ve been quiet impressed with Air France’s entertainment system. They have LOTS of movies to choose from (40 or so). I’ve already consumed The Dark Knight and Quantum of Solace. I mean, that’s like four and a half hours gone right there. Niiice.

We’re now over Greenland. I wonder what life is like today in Godthab. Cold I’m betting.

So, this will be the first of many blog entries. I ask of you to do your best to ignore the many grammatical and spelling that are sure to come…I’d appreciate that. As you read I hope this reaches so until next time…This is Nick signing off from 39,000 feet over from Greenland. GO DAWGS.