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Even with as much fun I am having here, I cannot wait to get back home.

I obviously miss my mom, but I also miss my cats, my dog, and my fucking pizzeria.

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So...we don't have air marshals on 99% of our flights.  Great...I feel so safe right now.  Great job America.

How would YOU have liked to paid coach and receive THIS flight?!

By the way - planes are more important than the passengers.  This plane HAD to be in London - people or not.  Happens all the time - hence "priceline.com"

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Plane flies five passengers from US to London
By David Millward, Transport Editor

A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board.

The flight from Chicago to London meant that the plane, a Boeing 777, used 22,000 gallons of fuel.
     
Friends of the Earth said it was 'obscene' to waste so much fuel flying an almost empty plane.  It led to American Airlines being accused of reckless behaviour by green lobby groups.  The latest "eco-scandal" flight took place on February 9 after American was forced to cancel one of its four daily services from Chicago to London.

While it was able to find places for nearly all the passengers on the fully-booked flight, five still had to be accommodated. Those who did fly were upgraded to the business class cabin.  But while they enjoyed lavish hospitality, the airline was accused of an "obscene waste of fuel" by Friends of the Earth.

It is estimated that each passenger produced 43 tons of CO2 – consuming enough fuel to carry a Ford Mondeo around the world five times.  Operating the near empty flight is estimated as having cost American about £30,000. But a spokesman said it had no alternative.

"With such a small passenger load we did consider whether we could cancel the flight and re-accommodate the five remaining passengers on other flights."  However, this would have left a plane load of west-bound passengers stranded in London Heathrow who were due to fly back to the US on the same aircraft.

"We sought alternative flights for the west-bound passengers but heavy loads out of London that day meant that this was not possible."

Richard Dyer, Friends of the Earth's transport campaigner said: "Flying virtually empty planes is an obscene waste of fuel. Through no fault of their own , each passenger's carbon footprint for this flight is about 45 times what it would have been if the plane had been full.

"Governments must stop granting the aviation industry the unfair privileges that allow this to happen by taxing aviation fuel and including emissions from aviation in international agreements to tackle climate change."

.Ever since I was a young child, I've wanted a pet snake--specifically a ball python. I kid you not. Does it bother me that I would have to feed it dead rodents? No, it's the cycle of life. Does it bother me that it could kill me if it constricted around my head too tightly? No, it wouldn't do that. We would be buddies. Yes, the snake and I would be buddies.

.But here's the problem... I fly to school.

.How is that a problem? You might ask. I'm painfully serious when I say this: you really can't have snakes on a plane. Not in your carry-on, not as checked baggage, not in cargo. No snakes on a plane. But how do people moving from one side of the country to the other take their pet snake? They don't. Airlines are totally discriminatory against cold-blooded animals. The only way you can ship a snake as cargo is if you are a "known shipper" with a personal business that ships at least 6 times a year.

.I can't leave my possible future snake here. My mother would never take care of it. Sigh.

.In other news, I like porn. Porn porn porn.

.My flight for Vermont leaves tomorrow morning.

.I have wanted to post so many entries lately. Cover so many themes and situations. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. But I realize that at such a turning point in my life I suppose I'm obligated to post something.

.My grandfather came by today to say hello and see his dog. He said something that I thought was incredibly odd for him to say but possibly true. He said that once I go up there, my life will be changed entirely. I can't remember if he said "forever" but that seems appropriate. Also dramatic.

.I tried to move my cat to the garden room so she would have more space to move around. My bedroom is kind of cramped for her to spend all her time and I feel sorry for her. Transporting her the four feet to the garden room was a disastrous event. The dogs went wild when they saw her and chased her about the house and into the dining room. I caught her there, her claws digging into my flesh in fear. I eventually got her sealed in the garden room, but she was horrified. She crawled beneath one of the recliners to hide. I decided to take her out and calm her down, so I looked under the chair to pull her out. She wasn't there. I looked everywhere and came back to the chair to see the lump from her little body inside the lining beneath it. She had somehow gotten into the lining of the chair. Saddened by the desperate nature of my cat, I drug the huge chair into my room to try and release her. I left the chair there for over an hour hoping she would come out. She never did. After prodding the chair a few times, I realized she was stuck. I eventually had to pull open the lining to release my crying feline. She immediately leapt from it and hid beneath my bed. That poor unfortunate soul.

.Attempting to fit my life into a few suitcases was not an easy task, but I did it. For the most part, that is. Unfortunately, at least one of my bags is definitely over the weight limit... Hopefully, I won't end up paying too much in extra baggage fees...