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09/14/2001 Entry: "In San Francisco Until Monday Now"
We had rescheduled the Chicago to National flight into Baltimore last night after learning National was closed indefinitely. Troy at Cisco Travel sounded totally exhausted, having put in over a twelve hour shift, but he was very helpful. I should probably add that the flight to Baltimore wasn't leaving until the next morning, so we were gearing up for spending the night in the Chicago airport, assuming it was impossibile to find a hotel, and probably not worth leaving the airport and going through all the security again the next morning.
So today we got up at 5:30, got to the office around 6:45 so we could drop off our laptops at the shipping department, and checked the airline website one last time before heading out to the airport for our 1:50 flight. Found out our flight had been canceled, and that Chicago was closed, as was apparently San Francisco. Cisco had also cancelled all travel for nonstranded travallers until Monday. That didn't make much of a difference for us though - We ended up on a direct flight from Sanfran to Baltimore on Monday now.
Hopefully Bing and I will be able to see a little bit of the city and perhaps the Pacific ocean before we head back.
Here's an extra note for anyone considering anti-Arab violence that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere yet : Remember that the person you decide to egg or beat up or otherwise attack might very well be working with US intelligence, trying to infiltrate the groups responsible, so your actions will just be making their job tougher. And even if your victum isn't working towards finding out who's responsible, your actions will just give the people who are responsible something new to talk about instead of what the topics our spies would like them to be talking about.
It's not that I think your average American of middle-eastern descent is involved in any conspiracies, but you've got to come up with anti-violence arguments that somehow appeal to those people who could believe this.
