October 2009
2 posts
7,000 Miles & 3 Hours
I wore a watch today that I bought in Hong Kong. It’s black and square, and the face is covered with interlocking rectangles of neon blue and green and yellow and black. It’s a knock-off, and the paint (which probably has lead in it) is scraping off, but I think it’s rad. I noticed, putting it on, that the time was off by three hours. This sets the stage for a mini flash-back...
WatchRemember my ranting and raving about the swine flu brewhaha? (My new favorite tongue-twister, by the way - swine flu brewhaha) Well, it turned out I shouldn’t have been quite so cavalier.
When my plane arrived in Shanghai (after oh, I don’t know, about 13 hours) we weren’t permitted to leave the plane. We had to wait, we were told, for the crew of quarantine swine flu...