goodbye mom and dad
today we left south carolina and my parents at the airport and flew home to seattle. it was an uneventful trip except for the flight from minneapolis to seattle: a mechanical problem with a fuel flow indicator created a domino effect of delays, leaving us crammed into the plane for three hours before takeoff. the passengers grew restless and slap-happy. a middle-aged woman behind us shouted into her cell phone jovially: "THE PLANE ISN'T LEAVING! BUT IT'S OK BECAUSE MY NEW FRIEND HERE AND I ARE GOING TO TRADE BOOKS WHEN WE ARE FINISHED! HAHA!" and a goateed man sitting next to kelly got an increasingly sour face as the hours passed, like a slow-motion film of a man eating a lemon.
