So here I sit...

So here I sit. A long day of goodbyes and packing is over. I’m watching a Sex and the City rerun and eating peanut butter and strawberry jam with a big spoon, as I tend to do when I’m nervous. By the way that’s my favorite snack in the world…I'm a pig, I know. But I figure where am I gonna find Jiff extra creamy and Smuckers Strawberry in China? I’m not…so it’s ok to eat two days worth of calories in 20 minutes (…uhh I’m ridiculous and I now have an awful stomach ache. So at this time tomorrow night I’ll be on a 20 hr flight. A 20 hour flight. Twenty hours of my life on an air plane. 20 hours sitting in a small seat next to a stranger. Perhaps I’ll like the stranger. Actually the last two long flights I had I sat next to the president of the national endowment for the arts and Montell Williams…I’ll let you all know how it goes (I say “you all” as if anyone is reading this..hahah) no matter…I’m gonna keep this blog because my memory is no good and this will be a great way to keep those memories at arms length. So my wonderful parents bought me a fantastic translator as a parting gift. You type in what you want to say and it speaks the translation back in the language of your choice. Ok, Conan is on now ( my fave. My sister wrote me a great card and got me a bag full of magazines and candy and my brother…well I’m not sayin what he got me. My best friend, Austin got me this great book called “Why Men Have Nipples” to read on the plane. It looks great…it’s a funny little book that answers questions that everyone has but no one knows the answers to. So I’m leavin to the airport at 6:30 from philly have to meet the rest of the cast at Newark at 9 and we don’t leave till midnight…long day of travel. I hope I like the cast. I’m sure I will. The only person I know is the actress playing Maria and she is fantastic and a very sweet. Perhaps I’ll be seated next to someone in the cast…I hope so. I requested one of the emergency door seats so I’d have more leg room…but I was just told by a friend that she thinks that those seats don’t recline?!? Please don’t let that be true!!!! I’m contemplating slipping the stewardess a hundred dollar bill to be bumped to first class 2O HOURS!!! Man. Ok..lets see what else.. My dog is sitting next to me. I’ll miss her so much…and really appreciate that my parents are going to be taking care of her for me (I write that in hopes that they read this) Ok…more to come from the airport during the 3 hours that I have there. Until then Zai jian ( good bye in Chinese :) )