the coming trip

I’ll be in Philadelphia as of Wednesday night.

On the remaining few days I’ll make my first visit to Annapolis in 20 years, and will also get to spend some time with Herr LINGIS. We saw quite a bit of Lingis in Cairo last year; his Cairo hotel was just up the street from my place. Now he’s living near Baltimore. If you were never in State College, Pennsylvania during the Lingis Era, you never really went to graduate school. A whole book could be written about things that happened in and near that house.

Passing through (tomorrow): London, but no time to leave the airport.

Passing through (on the way back): Chicago and Rome. No time to leave the airports in those places either. But since Spring Break in Cairo starts the moment I get back, I’m hoping for the option of getting bumped from the flight. Especially if it’s Chicago, in which case I might try to spend the whole of Spring Break in the vicinity.

I’ve only been bumped from a flight once, and I got a free Lufthansa ticket out of it.