When I do my flights to other timezones (5 to 7 hours ahead of UK) I don't even try to sleep on the plane (which is an option). Depending on the landing time I'll either try to get about four hours' kip when I get there, or just bash on through the day and go to bed early. True, I do not have the expectation of any social activity while I'm away, but you could use tiredness as a way to get out of any Monday evening socialising, perhaps?

Interesting! I've wound up sleeping 15 hours on the second day in the past, which will not work in this circumstance.

Comfort: the business allows people to fly business class if the round trip is less than $5k.

Sadly: They told me too late to book my flight. You can't get a price under $5k this close to departure.

However: I still get economy "plus" which I think means I get an extra 5" of leg room and a refundable ticket.

:coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:

My laptop backpack came and it is pretty excellent. It isn't the pack that zips all the way open for TSA. That costs $30 more, and this item isn't being paid for by the boss, so I figured I would just let any security examine my electronics in full.

I can't believe I never had one single backpack in my life before this. What a fine invention.

Surely you did have them in school, right?

No back in the 70s we didn't cotton to such newfangled ways and appliances and whatnot

In college some people did, but I never studied all that hard, so I would only carry two books around at most.

I didn't have a backpack (at least I think that's what we'd call a rucksack) until I was in my '20s. All my bags, and those of my contemporaries were over the shoulder ones, or sports bags for the boys.

My dad insisted on calling them "knapsacks" throughout my childhood. Then again, he also said Nazi as if it rhymed with patsy, so clearly he had a complicated relationship with the lexicon.

I never carried my books in any bag in HS. No matter how many books I was dragging along, I carried them.

Everyone had backpacks at my college, but it was terribly uncool to hook both sides around your shoulders. Backpacks had to be slung over one shoulder only. Oh, we were so asymmetrical in the 80s...maybe the one shoulder thing was to counteract the crooked hair or the multiple earrings in only one ear?

That's how it's supposed to be pronounced isn't it? Nah tsi

NOT-see. ;)

It is supposed to rhyme with "knot." It is not supposed to rhyme with "cat."

I say it like yahtzee

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pron...ritish/nazi_1#


Then again the way you guys pronounce 'not' isn't so far away from that :P

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pron...-english/knot#

Heeheee...I listened to the pronunciations. I say it more like the British example. The US one sounds really twangy, even to Midwest twang girl here. :)