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Wiscon voyage home
May. 31st, 2010 10:09 pmPreviously, too much time spent in Madison airport, where there is no free wi-fi. Uneventful plane flight to Denver on a Midwest-branded plane sans animal motif. (Books finished: Geektastic anthology; Tombs of the Fathers, Eleanor Arnason. Both fluffy and perfect for headachey girl. Now into the guests of honor anthology, which is more emotionally involving.)
Currently, the plane taking us to Seattle has arrived late, so the estimate is that we'll leave half an hour late. Not a disaster, as I was not planning to take the unhelpful light rail trip to Mount Baker that I will now miss.
New project for the mythical future in which I have lots of time: quilts of the views from an airplane. I've long thought of doing this with farmland -- squares, rectangles, circles divided and whole, green on gold, gold on green, brief dark brown, river oxbows pushing the simple figures aside -- but was struck by the green background with dust-pale driveways and house clearings coming into Denver today. Plus, one could now find visual references on Google Earth rather than taking large numbers of plane flights with resulting blurry plane-window photos, and thus have GPS coordinates with which to title the results. I want to leave the houses and cars completely out, show just the earth that we've done things to and not stuff we've built entire.
I have become less convinced over time of the necessity of turning off various electronic devices at different times. It would help if they didn't change their story all the time. Also, no plane has ever crashed due to carrying my laptop, and I do usually leave it asleep rather than really off. Beady Eye.
Currently, the plane taking us to Seattle has arrived late, so the estimate is that we'll leave half an hour late. Not a disaster, as I was not planning to take the unhelpful light rail trip to Mount Baker that I will now miss.
New project for the mythical future in which I have lots of time: quilts of the views from an airplane. I've long thought of doing this with farmland -- squares, rectangles, circles divided and whole, green on gold, gold on green, brief dark brown, river oxbows pushing the simple figures aside -- but was struck by the green background with dust-pale driveways and house clearings coming into Denver today. Plus, one could now find visual references on Google Earth rather than taking large numbers of plane flights with resulting blurry plane-window photos, and thus have GPS coordinates with which to title the results. I want to leave the houses and cars completely out, show just the earth that we've done things to and not stuff we've built entire.
I have become less convinced over time of the necessity of turning off various electronic devices at different times. It would help if they didn't change their story all the time. Also, no plane has ever crashed due to carrying my laptop, and I do usually leave it asleep rather than really off. Beady Eye.
