Illiteracy Rules!!

Saturday, June 14, 2003

Ok, it looks like I may have to cheat since I didn't get this set up from day one. Bear with me as I go waaaaay back in time (insert eerie spacy sound effects here, cue up Huey Lewis and the News' "Back in Time."

Someone should have told Robert Zemeckis. It is possible to time travel. I left Atlanta on a plane at 10:15 am this morning. After a 14 hour direct flight to Tokyo, it should have been just after midnight, right? No, it was 1:15 in the afternoon. On Sunday!! I don't know if we went through some wormhole or something, but how in the heck did I lose a whole day in 14 hours?

The flight was uneventful, unfortunately. The problem with flying overseas, it seems in my case (east Asia), that a majority of the people on the plane do not speak much English, if at all. I tried talking to the elderly Korean woman sitting next to me. BIG mistake!!! I spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to end a conversation I should have never started. I kept pretending like I understood what the hell she was trying to say just to get it over faster. It was self-inflicted torture. It may have not been so bad if she were trying to tell me about anything other than her new shoes. I think I finally figured out that her daughter is a student in the States studying neurology after she pointed to her head for over a minute trying to convey some message through the worlds most difficult game of charades, ever! I probably sound like an ass, but you have to remember that I had at least another 13 hours of this to look forward to.