I'm back!

[sabotabby]

Had an awesome time in Seattle. Had a traumatizing time getting there and back. I am reminded of why I keep swearing to not fly to the States—the rules keep changing, I'm singled out as a dangerous subversive (hint: the searches aren't "randomized" if you keep getting pulled out), and someone is always inexplicably furious at me when I get home.

Anyway. I'm home now. I'm stuck at home until 6. See, on the way back, my flight was delayed for two hours, and they figured that I wouldn't make the connecting flight home to Toronto, so they put me on another airline. That flight was delayed too, so I landed in Chicago O'Hare with less than an hour to get to the next flight. Which would have been okay, if they'd told me the right gate. Alas, they told me the entirely wrong terminal. So I ran to what they told me was the correct terminal, only to find that it wasn't. I then ran to what they assured me was the correct terminal, now long past the check-in time. This was when they decided to pull me for the second randomized search for the day, just as my flight was supposedly leaving. Miraculously, it wasn't gone yet, and I made it on, but they decided that my bag, which was supposedly checked all the way back to Toronto, required its own vacation in Chicago. And now I am at home, sans toiletry supplies, waiting for them to bring it back.

It was that kind of a day.

Anyway, I don't have time to catch up on all my blog reading. Besides the election of Ortega, massacres in Gaza, whatshername divorcing whatshisname via text message, and the Democrats taking the House and Senate*, what'd I miss?

* Actually, I didn't miss that, seeing as I was in the U.S. We partied.

EDIT: Stolen from 99catsaway, although I bet you've all seen it already.


EDIT II: LOL FARC.

EDIT III: The Right was Right.

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

what'd I miss?

Toews trying to sneak the police onto the panels that assess the fitness of nominees for the bench.

[sabotabby]

I take it that this didn't work? Please tell me it didn't work.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Bev and the Supremes are mightily pissed about it so he probably won't get away with it.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

Am I a terrible LJ friend for not knowing you were in Seattle?

[sabotabby]

I was gone for seven days and you didn't miss me?

*cries emo tears*

[apperception.livejournal.com]

I noticed you were gone and was just about to write you an e-mail to, amongst other things, ask you where you've been. I just didn't know you were in Seattle this whole time.

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

I was JUST going to comment on your last entry to find out if you were okay, noticing today that it's been forever since you updated. Then I decided to wait another week, and that you were probably just on vacay.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I was gone for seven days and you didn't miss me?

I missed you every day.

And why is my journal on fire every time you leave town? You're missing my best material. I had three - THREE delicious Schadenfreude posts! And only one of them was a result of the election.

Don't get me started on O'Hare airport ;)

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

I didn't know either, but I did wonder where you were.

I even checked your blog to make sure I hadn't missed something!

Also, that's no cause for celebration. >:O ;)

[sabotabby]

Oh, come on. Santorum cried. Anything that makes Santorum cry is cause for celebration.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

He cried?

Pix!

[sabotabby]

I saw a better one, but I can't find it now. :(

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I'm in Europe! Whee! :D

[sabotabby]

Hey, they let you on a plane? Awesome!

Where in Europe are you?

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Well, they let me out of the country, but I'm not sure they'll let me back in!

I'm in Bristol, England right now, and tomorrow I'm going to Zurich, Switzerland for a week! See my journal for more details, if yer curious!

PS - I miss my kitties so much I think I might cry! :(

[gabski.livejournal.com]

OMG! i had a pet rabbit that looked exactly like your icon!! Pigpen!! he was litter trained and everything. man, she was so awesome. and i used to love when she'd clean her face like that... she'd also clean her ears and it would be adorable!!

in relevant sabotabby news...
i voted to take back my country!!! WE WON!!! it was such an amazing 2-3 days ... voting and then celebrating. i could barely work i was so excited. me and my coworkers were just shouting out new reports and forwarding articles. what an event!!! i cant even explain my elation!!! and RUMSFELD!!! HAHAHAHAH!!! ah justice!

[sabotabby]

I used to have a bunny. She was evil, alas: glowing red eyes and a terrible disposition.

I was actually at an election party when I was in Seattle. We watched CNN (and FOX a bit, because I thought it would be funny) and got all excited.

What you missed

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

• My job is evil.
• nihilistic_kid is just as witty as This Modern World.
• The Democrats still suck.
• Marxism is way cooler than Williamsburg (read: Kensington Market).

In short, nothing new in dobrovolets-land.

Almost forgot...

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and frandroid was very nice and generous and improved my default icon.

Re: Almost forgot...

[sabotabby]

Many thanks. I need to get another cup of coffee and catch up on my reading.

The new icon looks great. It's somehow sharper, yes? (My fresh pair of contact lenses, along with my glasses, are en route from Chicago. I hope.)

Re: Almost forgot...

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

When I started this journal, I couldn't find the piece of art from which it's taken online, so I scanned it from the yellowed, grainy cover of my paperback copy of Victor Serge's Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Unsolicited, frandroid found that someone had posted a much sharper digitization of the original poster, and iconized it for me.

Re: What you missed

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

nihilistic_kid is just as witty as This Modern World.

And apparently just as wittly as Lloyd dangle.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

You are welcome to pillage whatever toiletries you need from mine. Check the flowered hatbox on my dresser. I don't think I can help with fresh contacts.

The cats missed you. So did I.

[sabotabby]

They've told me that I won't need to wait past six, so hopefully I won't smell too horribly by the time my deodorant gets here. I don't think you want me using your deodorant. ;)

I missed you and the cats too. How was the party?

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

How was the party?

PAAAHAHAHAHA!

[ironed_orchid]

Hello. You sound revived and stuff.

Mandatory Homosexuality! YAY!

Oh, and you've probably seen this, but I've been saving it until your return: bunny!

[sabotabby]

I'm somewhat revived now, although I'm feeling the effects of having done a very long run without the benefits of stretching or putting on comfortable clothes first. In other words: OW OW OW.

I hadn't seen the bunny/kitty. Too cute for words. But they'd better both be of the same gender!

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I'll see your cat-bunny love and raise you a cat-vacuum cleaner love.

[sabotabby]

I tried to do that to Marinetti once.

It didn't really work.

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

You were in my town?

Huh?

Man, I coulda told you where to get the cheap beer, hookers and blow.

[sabotabby]

Gotta say, I was impressed by how cheap the beer was. I wasn't there long enough to seek out hookers or blow, though.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

I noticed no posts from you and wondered!

I thought of you, especially because it was reading yr blog that introduced me to the "I'm in Yr XXX doing XXX to your XXX " phenomenon, which of course I introduced to my roommates, one of whom sent me this on Wednesday morning.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/08/pelosi_im_in_ur_hous.html

[sabotabby]

Hahaha! Plz to be impeachin those dooodz.