A few observations with some time to kill in the Chicago airport...

Apple hysteria is hitting an all-time high. In the first fifteen minutes of sitting here, I've been dogged by 5 different people about my computer and whether I like it and if I think it's worth it. I try to briefly describe how efficient and wonderfully designed they are and how I'd never go back. But it's always the analogy I offer that gets them. So next time someone is bothering you about your computer, just tell "i'd rather pay for this computer than get a dell for free." That seems to be comment that really sends it home, but why am I telling you? Everyone I know is on Mac now. It's a wonderful world.

America as a whole is really freaking fat. It's an airport that really reminds me of this because of all my friends, no one is really that heavy. There's not many in the industry I've chosen, so sometimes I forget. But when big-bottomed betty sits down next to you in the already-small airplane seats; you remember. I'm reading a collection of articles by everyone's favorite, Anthony Bourdain. He's the foul-mouthed, insane former-chef who writes and does television. Funny, because he's the same guy who decries people who aren't in the kitchen and who exploit TV. But it works for him because he's genuine and he's really a Chef, not some Food Network "Chef" who couldn't cook himself into the broad-side of a barn. Anyway, the premise of a few of the articles is to re-focus on the food that got the world to where it is. This is all very close to me heart because of upcoming career choices and how I want to focus the scope of my cooking in a world that's developed a very weird association with food. One that has made us really fat.

That last point would have been much better if I hadn't been interrupted by a guy wanting me to look up a website for him. Seven awkward minutes of him standing behind the chair I'm sitting in with his cellphone to his ear and a woman on the other end of the line. Swear to you that he had me do a yahoo search for "body massage candles." May have been one of the most awkward moments of my life, which ended up as me having to explain to him how keywords work and why Yahoo won't recognize this website, I assume, of the woman on the other end of the line. I've never wanted to be somewhere else at that moment. It started to feel like maybe I was about to have to do something illegal.

Flying sucks, if you didn't already know.