I save a bundle skipping middle age and Saturdays

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In which I am not any more present online than I have been so far this week, because the nice man on the phone at Delta informed me that ticketholders for international flights should now arrive at the airport three hours in advance of their scheduled departure times and therefore I need to run like a mad thing to Logan. Who knew Vancouver was such a terrorist hotspot?

I can hope I have packed enough books for the trip, although I almost never have.¹ With any luck, I'll have the time in-flight (and in airports) to write up Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), which I saw two nights ago on TCM, and the Boston Lyric Opera's Tosca, which I saw last night with fleurdelis28 and sharhaun. I am looking forward to this week immensely. And I will see all of you when I see you.

1. Philip Kemp's Lethal Innocence: The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick (1991), Sholem Aleichem's Wandering Stars (1909), Tony Kushner's Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays (2000), Rikki Ducornet's Entering Fire (1986), and possibly Andrew Hodges' Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) even if I've finished it, because it was just that awesome. I remember there being excellent bookstores in Vancouver, but that doesn't do me much good in Minneapolis St. Paul.

Comments

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

I travel internationally 2-5 times a year, and two hours in advance are more than sufficient lead time. Be prepared to shed a significant portion of your clothing -- besides coat, scarf, shoes, they now demand belts as well because of the new scanners. Soon we will simply have to travel wrapped in blankets while our clothes go separately. More airport bookstores are a desert of bestsellers du jour and ghost-written celeb autobios.

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I travel internationally 2-5 times a year, and two hours in advance are more than sufficient lead time.

Apparently: I was through security in less than ten minutes. Three hours, my sainted anatomy—I waited longer to fly to D.C.

Be prepared to shed a significant portion of your clothing -- besides coat, scarf, shoes, they now demand belts as well because of the new scanners.

Fortunately, I don't wear a belt and I got used to putting my boots and my jacket through the scanners years ago. I'm just still unconvinced of its efficacy. At least there's wireless here.

More airport bookstores are a desert of bestsellers du jour and ghost-written celeb autobios.

I scored Jane Gardam's God on the Rocks (1978) from the Borders kiosk in Logan. I have no explanation, but I'm going to read it.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

God on the Rocks is excellent Gardam. Did you know there's a film? Bill Paterson and Sinead Cusack no less.

Enjoy your sojourn. My very best to M.

Nine

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God on the Rocks is excellent Gardam.

Oh, good. If you hadn't read it, you needed to stat.

Did you know there's a film? Bill Paterson and Sinead Cusack no less.

Neat!

My very best to M.

Shall convey.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Yes, though on the other hand I think they've always asked you to show up three hours in advance...except, I think, to Canada.
It's probably not a bad idea in any case: leaves time in case Things Go Horribly Wrong.
Safe travels!

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Yes, though on the other hand I think they've always asked you to show up three hours in advance...except, I think, to Canada.

I'm flying to Canada! Hence my calling Delta to make sure they meant it about the check-in times, and being told they did. I think I'm going to end up reading all my trip books in airports.

Safe travels!

Thanks!