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sevI'm sitting here in the Madison airport, waiting for my delayed-by-an-hour-and-a-half flight, and I just can't stop smiling.
There were twenty people in line with me when I checked my suitcase, and I'm the only one of them with any chance of getting on a plane today. There's weather in Chicago, and I happen to have bought a ticket on the only flight that's actually going there from Madison today. The other four planeloads of people were sent to hotels for the night. Lucky, lucky me.
The waiting area is near-empty, as there just aren't any flights leaving from this side of this small airport. I've got my laptop, a bunch of games, a stack of movies, and finding a power plug was trivial. If I'd been thinking harder, I'd have been able to charge my phone, too, but the phone charger is in my checked lugggage. Still, lucky, lucky me.
My bank account is $180 lighter and I don't actually have enough cash on me to take a cab home from the airport...but I still just can't stop smiling. When I stopped by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem's table in the dealer's room at the con, a gleam of copper and swarzovski crystal caught my eye. That looks awfully familiar...didn't I try on something like that in 2000? That I've been regretting having let get away ever since? That's the same one, said Elise. It was returned; it's the only exchange she's ever ever accepted. The woman who bought it discovered she couldn't wear the copper and found something silver, instead. Elise brought it to Wiscon, marked down since it was no longer new, remembering somebody had asked her about it last year; she couldn't recall who. I'd stopped by her table earlier that day and bought something else, but it wasn't until the second time that I saw the extravagent throat corset I'd been so sad I'd missed. And this time, I didn't let it get away from me. Lucky, lucky me.
I'm probably going to be home very late tonight or, more likely, very early Tuesday morning. And even if I get to Chicago and can go no further until the sun rises tomorrow, that's still a finer place to be stuck than Madison; more things open all night, more amenities. Lucky, lucky me.
There were twenty people in line with me when I checked my suitcase, and I'm the only one of them with any chance of getting on a plane today. There's weather in Chicago, and I happen to have bought a ticket on the only flight that's actually going there from Madison today. The other four planeloads of people were sent to hotels for the night. Lucky, lucky me.
The waiting area is near-empty, as there just aren't any flights leaving from this side of this small airport. I've got my laptop, a bunch of games, a stack of movies, and finding a power plug was trivial. If I'd been thinking harder, I'd have been able to charge my phone, too, but the phone charger is in my checked lugggage. Still, lucky, lucky me.
My bank account is $180 lighter and I don't actually have enough cash on me to take a cab home from the airport...but I still just can't stop smiling. When I stopped by
elisem's table in the dealer's room at the con, a gleam of copper and swarzovski crystal caught my eye. That looks awfully familiar...didn't I try on something like that in 2000? That I've been regretting having let get away ever since? That's the same one, said Elise. It was returned; it's the only exchange she's ever ever accepted. The woman who bought it discovered she couldn't wear the copper and found something silver, instead. Elise brought it to Wiscon, marked down since it was no longer new, remembering somebody had asked her about it last year; she couldn't recall who. I'd stopped by her table earlier that day and bought something else, but it wasn't until the second time that I saw the extravagent throat corset I'd been so sad I'd missed. And this time, I didn't let it get away from me. Lucky, lucky me.I'm probably going to be home very late tonight or, more likely, very early Tuesday morning. And even if I get to Chicago and can go no further until the sun rises tomorrow, that's still a finer place to be stuck than Madison; more things open all night, more amenities. Lucky, lucky me.
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on 2004-06-02 03:48 am (UTC)I'm a sucker for tiaras, myself.
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on 2004-06-02 09:25 am (UTC)The copper collar can also be worn as a tiara. :)