There and Back Again

It can hardly be coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression “As pretty an an airport.”

Airports are ugly.  Some are very ugly.  Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.  This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to convey this in their designs.

They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve-jangling colors, to make effortless the business of separating the traveler forever from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveler with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, and wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not.

Caught in the middle of a sea of hazy light and a sea of hazy noise, Kate Schechter stood and doubted.

So begins the new book I am reading, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams.  Impressions so far?  The style is unmistakable, getting carried off with obsurd details with the sometimes result of forgetting what on earth the beginning of a sentence was about.  But I am enjoying it.  Not as much as Hitchhikers Guide, but i am only just getting into the story, so it has time to grow.

I stopped at Borders (or barnes and noble, i can never remember which is which) last saturday, and got some GetFuzzy, as well as some heavier reading such as this.

Unfortunately i have to be on call for work again tomorrow morning.  which leaves me not really knowing what to do with my friday night.  I didn’t feel in the mood for re-watching any of my movies, so i spent most of my night youtubing.  not something i often do, or really ever for that matter.  I started out trying to catch up on some of the ‘news’ i have been missing lately, such as what is up with all these failing banks, and politics, etc.  All I can say is, i started watching quite a few clips of Ron Paul and realized that i wish i would have heard more about him in the mainstream media like, 9 months ago.  anywho, that is what happens when you trust ‘news’ corporations to basically tell you who your candidates are.  His message of reduced government and sticking to the constitution ring bells with how i feel about government.

Anywho, here’s to hoping that my phone doesn’t ring at 6:30 tomorrow morning.

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Well, I am off to Nicaragua!

That is assuming nothing odd happens and i don’t make it on the plane…  I am super excited for this trip.  I am going with a varied group of people (most from the church at Slate Hill Mennonite), and we will be building a church building near Leon, Nicaragua.  misc facts, it will be warm (85s this week), but not as warm as PA right now.  It will probably rain alot, thunderstorms are in the forcast.  I think they had a hurricane a week or so ago?  I am taking some fun toys to hopefully give away down there, frisbee (of course) soccer ball, and to inspire artists, a water colour set.

It felt so awesome to leave work friday, now granted i left late because i was trying to wrap up lots of lose ends for being away this week, but it was sweet.  When i walked out the door and locked up, it felt like i was about to spend a day at the beach.  yes, that exciting!  they heat helped that feeling.

pray for travel, and good experiences.  also that we get the building done.  power lines are down from a bad storm last week, so we are renting a generator (hopefully) and may need to use more hand tools than we expected to.  but of course things won’t go as smoothly working on a construction site in latin america like it would around here – which is what i am used to.

I am off to the airport, and will be back next monday sometime.