well, i’m in Phnom Penh right now. i arrived just a few hours ago and i’m already starting to feel strangely at home here. i’ve narrowed down the causes to the friendly locals and their familiar Asian faces and me being delirious from lack of sleep.

so i finally got to Hong Kong almost exactly 24 hours after i was dropped off at O’Hare. there was a mechanical problem with the plane at Chicago and the mechanics spent a couple of hours fixing things only to have the pilot refuse to fly it. so instead of leaving at 12:22pm as was scheduled, we took off from Chicago at precisely 6:03pm.

on the plus side, everyone got an apology letter from the airline as well as a voucher of yet unknown value. let’s hope it’s for six hours of my life back.

i’m probably still on the plane right now somewhere over Siberia. i say “probably” because i’m pre-posting this since i won’t have internet access on the airplane.

ooh, i’m probably drinking ginger ale right now and will probably be going to the bathroom soon. the floor will probably be sticky and the “WHOOSH” of the toilet will probably be louder than i expect. the food is probably terrible and the seats massively uncomfortable. also, a baby is probably screaming.