Sunday, November 27th

10:25 a.m.: "See you in a few weeks." "Do you have everything?" "Love you." "Say bye to Oma for me." "Have a good flight."

11:07 a.m.: "Flight 1196 to Chicago, originally at 12:30, is now delayed until 1:30."

1:02 p.m.: "Wide right and short! This game will go to overtime. Chargers 17, Redskins 17."

1:03 p.m.: "Now boarding group 6 onto flight 1196 to Chicago. Boarding groups 1-6."

1:09 p.m.: "Going back to school?" "Yeah. 3 days in the sunshine wasn't enough." "Tell me about it. You go to Harvard?" "Yeah." "Cool. I go to Trinity, in Hartford." "I hear Hartford's a cool city." "Haha. Well, it's trying." "That's good. I'm Brian" "David. Nice to meet you."

1:28 p.m.: "This is your captain speaking. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like we're being pushed back on the list here. Our new flight time is 2:30."

1:29 p.m.: "Fuck."

1:34 p.m: "They won? I can't believe that!" "Yeah dude, LT went up the middle, 50 yards, game over!" "That's so cool. I gotta go, take it easy." "Have a good flight" "Thanks, man."

1:35 p.m.: "They won?" "Yeah, on an LT run." "Sweet, they needed that one." "tell me about it."

2:27 p.m: "This is your captain again from the cockpit. Unfortunately, we've been pushed back some more. They have shut down one of the runways in Chicago, so now there are only 2. We've been pushed back to 3:30. If you would like to get off the plane and get something to eat, we're going to unlock the doors here in a minute. Again, sorry for the inconvenience."

2:34 p.m.: "Just the sandwich, yeah."

2:48 p.m.: "all passengers on flight 1196 to Chicago please come to gate 25 for immidiate re-boarding."

2:56 p.m.: "I give it a 1 in 30 chance of taking off."

3:12 p.m.: "flight attendants prepare for take-off."

8:42 p.m. (central standard time): "We are so terribly sorry for all the delays. welcome to Chicago."

8:58 p.m.: "Can i have one of those baja burrito things please."

9:06 p.m.: "yeah, i just got something to eat. The flight to Hartford is delayed until 10:30. Yes i'm tired."

9:27 p.m.: "It was pretty good. I got it down there in the food court."

10:25 pm.: "Now boarding group 6 on flight 1192 to Hartford. Group 6, now boarding"

1:57 a.m. (eastern standard time): "Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Hartford."

2:09 a.m.: "Where you going?" "Trinity College." "98 dollars." "98 dollars??" "No, sorry...28 dollars. I was thinking of the girl before you."

2:24 am.: "Which cab are you waiting for?" "Manchester #1" "Come on in."

2:41 a.m.: "Where you from?" "California." "Its nice up there now?" "yes."

2:52 a.m.: "My name is Saleem, here is my card..." "thank you" "any time you need to go to the airport or anything, I'd like to be your personal cab driver." "thank you. Have a good evening." "just give me a call!" "thank you. good night."

3:00 a.m.: "[grunt]"