On a jet airplane

I'm taking a redeye to Philadelphia tonight for this wedding. The best part about plane trips is that I get to catch up on reading: all this nothing but time, no way to hurry up. The only things to do are read and sleep and talk to carefully selected strangers. The best conversation I ever had in my life was with a University of Chicago law student on an airplane. It lasted all the way from San Francisco to Chicago and included Everything.

Tonight I'm hoping for no such conversations, though.