stuck in the airport

Heading to University of Virginia for my FRET microscopy workshop, which I've been waiting for for nine months! I'd be excited except that my flight was supposed to leave at 11:38 and we're not boarding for another hour. I'm going to miss my connection in DC. The next flight they could get me on won't get me there for registration, lunch, or the first talk. So annoying! (I also don't foresee being able to sleep whatsoever, which is only partly due to frustration. Mostly I just can't.) Next time I am so paying for the extra night in a hotel before the thing I'm trying to get to.

I didn't think it was possible

I am now glad that my previous flight was delayed. Why? Because it is snowing in Charlottesville, and my original connection was flat-out cancelled. Ha ha! I am already rebooked! Sheesh. At least I probably won't be the only person who's late.

at least there is free wifi in Dulles

Have some amazing art!

Rashad Alakbarov's shadow paintings are wonderful, though the display order on the linked page is a bit anticlimactic. Scroll to the bottom and work your way up.

Sonja Hinrichsen's snow spirals and Simon Beck's stunning fractals speak to the wish I think all of us have to walk on that fresh snow first.

workshop and hotel achieved!

Because almost everyone was delayed, I didn't even miss a workshop session; they moved one to after dinner and started later. And when I got there they had saved me stuff from lunch, and made me a sandwich and brought it to me during the talk, which was kind of insanely nice. Am I in The South now?

Also I think I have been awake for 33 hours. It is possible that I slept half an hour or an hour on the plane, but most of the uncertainty is that math is not so good right now. Am in my hotel room. Do not appear to have a roommate, yay. Will err on the side of shower-and-crash regardless.

In other news, totally unsecured wireless networks appear to be the order of the day in VA. (Hotel and cute tiny airport; university has more sense.)