My friend Kanako is visiting from Hong Kong this week and today we just discovered that my mom has six buddy passes that will expire at the end of this month. For those of you unfamiliar with my life and therefore most likely thoroughly confused with that last sentence, let me fill you in. My… Read More 5 Days, 6 Free Airline Tickets to Anywhere…Where Should I Go?
3 – Number of hours I spent in the car (driving to and from the airport) 17.5 – Number of hours I spent in various airplanes 7 – Number of hours I spent waiting for my flight (in three different airports) 27.5 – Number of total hours I spent in transit 48 – Number of… Read More 48 Hours in Puerto Rico
I might lose my job. I say might because right now everything is up in the air, but it’s looking like I’ll be unemployed again starting the end of the January. I’ve known since I started that this might happen. I was hired on as a seasonal (I.e, temporary), employee which means that I was… Read More Soon to be Unemployed?!
Next week I’ll be heading to Puerto Rico for four days. The first and last time I visited Puerto Rico I was 13 years old. I remember eating a fried banana, driving past rows of Fruit Loop-colored houses made of cement, and finding a singing Coqui frog in my cousin’s bedroom. I’m sure this trip… Read More Upcoming Trips: Puerto Rico, Antigua and the Sundance Film Festival
A couple of weeks ago, while I was emptying the airplane trash bins, one of the bags split open and spilled a brown, milky liquid down the front of my skirt. “Ewww…” I shrieked. “Garbage juice!” That’s what’s I call the rancid liquid that pools at the bottom of the airplane trash bins. The airplane… Read More The Dirty Side of Airline Work