{"id":2710,"date":"2010-05-31T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2010-05-31T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:53:34","slug":"eta-sometime-between-pulse-and-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/05\/31\/eta-sometime-between-pulse-and-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"eta: sometime between pulse and connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re reading this in the afternoon on Monday May 31, I’m past the clouds, winging my way to<\/span> Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The flight out of Victoria was canceled.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I pre-wrote this post and scheduled it to publish while I’m en route. I knew I wouldn’t get a chance to write anything in the morning, and I’m guessing that by the time I get to my destination, I’ll be just a wee tad wrung out<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I feel wrung out, but only because my plans were overturned so abruptly.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

While I’m not a morning person, the tyranny of international flight regulations mean having to be at my local airport –<\/span> Victoria BC\/ YYJ<\/a> – at 4:30a.m., 90 minutes prior to the departure of a 6a.m. flight to Seattle, from whence I get a connecting flight to Boston.That the 6a.m. flight (there’s no 7a.m.) is the only option is bad enough; having to be there 90 minutes ahead of time is ridiculous. Yes, Seattle may be merely minutes away, but it lies across an international boundary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Got up at 3:45a.m., taxi to airport at 4a.m., hung around until 5:45a.m. before the airline (Horizon) told us that the 6a.m. flight was canceled “due to mechanical problems” – Horizon #fail. Back in line to re-book, on the phone to reservations at the same time as standing in line – upshot? Earliest possible flight out for the two of us: TOMORROW morning, with a complicated itinerary via Chicago, that would have landed us at Logan Airport around midnight. No thanks, especially not with a return trip already planned for Saturday. We canceled everything and returned home. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope to return to regular programming by tomorrow (Tues.) – if you’re in Boston,<\/span> @ me on Twitter<\/a> and say “hi” or drop a comment here. I’d love some good conversation and maybe a chance to meet a few<\/span> Berkman<\/a> folks, time permitting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I suppose a return to regular programming by tomorrow is possible. Unfortunately, it won’t happen in Boston, at least not this week. So sad. Instead of “eta” the title could read “doa”…<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re reading this in the afternoon on Monday May 31, I’m past the clouds, winging my way to Boston. The flight out of Victoria was canceled. I pre-wrote this post and scheduled it to publish while I’m en route. I knew I wouldn’t get a chance to write anything in the morning, and I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-boston"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}