Mile high Thoughts

Was pretty bored in the plane and decided to catch up on my blogging. Here I am starting an 8 hour flight with lots of people from my company. The person sitting next to me, J, who is another one from my company, started talking to me 3 seconds after sitting down. Once she knew I was from the same company that only seemed to have made me more intimately close to her. She went on and on about how this guy she had a crush on who is also working in my company, just had sex with her and had hooked up with this other girl also from my company, just 5 days after that. “Men!” she said, and we both burst out laughing. I told her that I was gay and then it was quite the party. She is this really pretty girl and quite sweet if you look beyond the fact that she doesn’t stop talking for more than a couple seconds at a time. She has just gone to sleep and so I have the time to type for now. I hope she isn’t looking. I keep turning to check on her to make sure she isn’t reading this as I type.

The screen on the front of the plane tells me that we just crossed over Denver and are flying over the Rocky Mountains. I am sitting on the window seat and turning to my left I can see black colored mountains covered with snow partially on the non sunny side. It looks completely uninhabited. Maybe it would look better in summer when there are leaves on the trees. Right now, it looks very bare. Very barren. Sort of a black and white picture in fact. Normally during flights in the afternoon I always find the lakes and rivers reflecting the light from the sun and looking like pools of mercury due to the high reflectivity. But I can’t see any water at all in sight. Just black and white.

It’s a long 8 hour flight and I just killed some time off watching some really horribly romantic movie with Reese Witherspoon in it called “Just like heaven”. It was nice and all but really quite Hindi movie-ish in its unrealistic-ness. We seem to be flying over the ocean now and I can't believe I still have 4 hours to go.

J just woke up and had a long conversation with me. She has extreme left wing ideas and attended an anti war rally in DC it seems. She was visibly displeased about me being Indian and not being a vegetarian since she is, but I made sure that she didn’t go into a lecture mode by stating that I was just one of those people who chose not to be a vegetarian and that’s was that. She also seemed really high on the gay marriage equality and abortion rights. The whole nine yards of being a democrat I tell ya. She simply went back to sleep after sharing her “wasabi chick peas” and “curry cashews”. The curry cashews were really good, I must admit.

God! I feel absolutely restless. I went to the stewardesses station and was told to go back and sit down since there was turbulence. I have to say that, I can't wait to get off this plane. Everytime I fly I feel that I want to understand clouds better. I feel like I have never understood why the water molecules stay together to form a cloud instead of dispersing in air. But no matter how many times I see clouds I always find it a differentperspective when I am flying above and below them. They are so dream like. Ever noticed another plane coming at an angle towards your plane. It seems like its coming at an insane speed but luckily it’s at a different altitude and it won’t hit you. OK, I know I am thinking rather unimportant stuff but anything to take my mind off this urge to get up and run down the aisle.

(I never had time to post this from hawaii and so i am posting it now.)