The Antisocial Socialist

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.