Airport Observations

• Staring out the window to see gray skies, grayish rain, gray pavement, and gray airport stuff is actually really relaxing and soothing to the eyes after an all-nighter.
• Hangin' in an empty gate is the best way to kill time at the airport.  You can mutter to yourself and make jazz hands without creating a scene and annoying other people.  (The jazz hands are a non-negotiable if Spotify decides you're going to listen to "Zoot Suit Riot.")
• Pulling an all-nighter before flying is only a problem when you get to the right terminal 2.5 hours until boarding.  So much for a relaxing book.  Here's when the whole "screens stop you from sleeping" is actually a good thing.
• The B Terminal of Dulles is the best.  End of story.
• The Jawa Sandcrawler things that take you from the baggage claim to Terminal D don't look as much like Jawa Sandcrawlers from the outside as they feel from the inside.  It is with great sadness that I write this.
• Those people who wear earbuds/headphones all through the airport. Not only do they miss out on hearing those "SPECIAL Announcements," but more importantly, how do they not dance their way to the plane?  How?!  It takes Herculean strength of restraint for me not to sing and dance through the airport and on the plane with or without my own music.
• Being tired will make you care a lot less about grumbling audibly "under your breath" at the stuff on the airport TV's that you disagree with and find stupid.  (Like really, women should change their pre-existing names to masculine/unisex names in order to succeed in the tech world? Like that's the way we want to empower women? And why is it so terrible that not many women are in that industry? Maybe it's just that not a lot of us want to be there.  There's doing what you want and trying to get kids to do what they want to do..... and then there's trying to recruit children for a specific field that you want them to enter.  Sadly, I don't remember the name of the show or the woman who was being interviewed.)