the notebook but yes. stranger things have occured. like big name airlines going bankrupt. flying back from las vegas yesterday morning was a nightmare - it felt like i was riding a slow roller coaster. i wanted to get off the plane so bad. we hit some turbulence that seemed normal at first, even the flight attendants started serving drinks.

and then the plane sharply banked forward and lower. the first officer ordered the flight attendants be seated, and the rocking went on for the next half hour. it's one of those i-want-out-of-my-body-NOW-but-i-can't-so-life-is-hell moments.

the funny thing's that we were watching "the notebook" when the first officer decided, just at the perfect moment when noah and allie laid down in the middle of the street and looked up the night sky and shared their deepest thoughts, to explain that they didn't expect that much turbulence over denver, colorado and the rocky mountains and that we were the only aircraft in the area at this time.

*sigh.* i was seated with two other girls, they were friends. in front of us was a couple. i thought of cell phones and the last calls of terror attack victims from their planes. at that hour, though, terrorists were as improbable as harlequins greeting you from outside your aircraft window; we were no longer in las vegas. somehow the idea of a plane crash with me in it is unthinkable, the way oil never breaks over water.

normal viewing sound between noah and allie commenced after the first officer gave his excuses. i wanted to land. they soldiered on. i'm stuck with united coz of milage and credit history. before switching off everything and returning to "the notebook," mundanely i wondered if any of these passengers in this full flight will fly united ever again.   ¶ 11/17/2004 04:18:00 PM