As of today, my outstanding student loans have fallen below $20,000. Hooray!

An article in yesterday’s New York Times magazine contained a great quote from Louisiana’s then-Senator John Breaux in 2000, ostensibly in support of Al Gore’s choice of Joe Lieberman, the first Jew on a major national party ticket, as his running mate:

“I don’t think American voters care where a man goes to church on Sunday.”

What a knob.

I got back from Vancouver this morning. I flew home via San Francisco. I was supposed to have a 70-minute window between landing in SF and taking off for Newark, but the first flight took off an hour late. Fortunately, 17 passengers were making that transfer (or 1 out of 8 passengers! wow), so they held the Newark plane at the gate for us, and when the first flight landed, the flight attendant asked all the passengers to let the Newark-bound passengers off the plane first. That was kinda cool.

Number of copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows spotted:

– 2 being read by children at the gate at Vancouver.
– 1 being read by a young woman sitting two seats away from me on the first flight.
– 4 being read by people as I walked down the aisle of the second plane to get to my seat in the back.

And oh yeah, the copy that Matt started and finished yesterday.