Madelyn's Blog

First flight down, two to go.

I’m in Chicago, hunkered down near the window of my gate for the next 7 hours until my flight to Paris. There are only 3 outlets at this gate, which has over 200 seats. I have stealthily secured one and don’t plan on giving it up. I figured out how to tether my laptop to my phone, so I can use its internet and avoid paying $6.95/day for WiFi in the airport. Also very sneaky. In other news, the woman sitting across from me (who is on the way to Florida but the airline cancelled her flight, how dare they) got 3 pages into her mystery novel and loudly proclaimed that she will  not finish the book, because if the protagonist uses the “most direct route” feature on his GPS 3 pages in he’s obviously an idiot, and she doesn’t want to read a book with an idiot hero. Touche, loud Floridian woman, touche. My plans for the next 7 hours include: sleeping, checking the weather, praying that said weather does not bring large hail (as predicted) and delay my flight to Paris, eating ridiculously overpriced and over-processed airport food, looking up interesting words in my French-English dictionary, and more sleeping.

A bientot

p.s. Mom, I have seen several sticker-worthy people in the airport today, including a woman in full length denim bib overalls and several instances of sandals with long socks.