Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Take off
Susanne leaves tomorrow for San Antonio for a conference down there. She's presenting on the brokenness of the male landscape in the fine novel, A Thousand Acres. It's really cutting-edge stuff, because no one has yet looked at the characters Ty and Pete as being victims of the patriarchal system. Everyone looks at the women in the novel as victims of it, but the women are the ones who escape with their lives. Susanne's angle is more representative of the newer strain of gender criticism that examines how males are also injured by the inherent problems of patriarchy--and I say it's about darned time!
So anyway, I go get her quite early for her flight down to Houston and transfer to San Antonio. She's flying on Continental, and we double checked her flight status using the flight number from the e-ticket. How I love the e-ticket. Isn't it magnificent that now your computer paper print-out is just as good as the fancy-schmansy fraud-protected special boarding pass they normally send you? And isn't it cooler that, if you lose that computer paper print-out, you can simply print the darned thing off again?
I wonder what Susanne will be wearing when she goes to the airport. If you dress up they treat you better. I won't be dressed up to drive her to the airport, though. Nobody checks the drivers.
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