Airport Drawings

September 18, 2005

Yesterday we were flying from St. Louis to Cary, NC, and I’m not as good as Melody and you others at packing my knitting on the plane. How am I going to get that sweater that needs sleeves into a carry-on with two laptops, a camera and all my other important essentials?

I had got down to using one laptop on trips, because I look like a total mess at the security points when they make me unload all those electronics. But I suspected Russ might commandeer my PC in preparation for his slide presentation, so in a panic I put the Mac back in at the last minute. Instead of handwork, I decided to practice drawing people and found it so engaging I almost missed the line-up call at my Chicago transfer.

This guy was sleeping next to me and he had a tough-looking face I wanted to draw. But I was afraid he would beat me up if he saw me drawing him in his sleep, so I hid my sketchbook really quick when he woke up. I liked a girl’s legs with a backpack on her lap. And there was a man sitting across from me using his fingers to read his book. But he left before I could draw his head, so I put someone else’s on his body.

I wish my sketch books looked like this guy’s. I just finished reading his journal Everyday Matters and it was really lovely.

Oh, I almost forgot, most of the time on the plane I was reading Confessions of a Shopaholic, something a lot of us can relate to. It was really fun - sort of in the vein of Bridget Jones’ Diary.

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