Date: August 5th, 2010
Location: Amsterdam Airport
We landed at 9am, Amsterdam-time--which is something like 3am Michigan-time. (I feel like I'm probably going to be straddling time zones for a while.) I couldn't fall asleep on the plane from Detroit--part of it was that I couldn't get comfortable, the other part was that my mind wouldn't stop spinning.
After just barely making the bus to the airport and the close shave making the plane out of Detroit--not to mention the complete emptiness of knowledge and expectation hanging over my head regarding this trip--it was impossible to settle. Not to mention when we got to the airport, the professor J realized that he and the early-arriving students had forgotten half of the course packs on a table in the hotel where the bus picked up.
On the plus side, not sleeping gave me the chance to watch several popular movie I missed this year on the headrest video monitor. I saw "Kick-Ass," "The Hurt Locker," and about half of "Invictus." Like I said--long plane ride. "The Hurt Locker" was decent, but I don't think it was worth Best Picture--but then again, what do I know?
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