HARVARD Diatribe #1

Dear diary friends relatives and other hangers on.

As part of our great excitement and apprehension of going to Harvard for orientation and the anticipation of our first day in the big city of Cambridge, it has all but been dashed and smashed.

While my apprehension and total anxiety is related to US customs and the anticipation with associated curiosities of the issuance of a J one visa and the potential of being scanned fingerprinted and other important parts of my body measured. This did not come to pass. That part of the experience went exceedingly fast and was very efficient and I wasn’t taken apart in some back room by the only available border Gorilla-guard security person, AKA Homeland Security, whose sole job is to intimidate any one into a snivelling wreck closely related to the consultancy of jello.  This is all before being allowed into the United States of America. The Canadian perception, of the US’s normally welcoming attitude has changed over the last few years.  There are now, border walls Homeland Security’, CIA, FBI, and NSA.  They all scare me to death.

Canadians hibernation is a good concept. Canadians are part of  the rest of the world, and being declared a Non Resident Alien is a brain cramping thought.  Contrary, to my apprehension the true welcoming American does exist and is alive and well, for the moment. Our first interaction was with the issuer of our J-1 visa.  He had some amazing tattoos of The Walking Dead which added to my fear.  However, I made a complementary comment on his ink and I think, it eased the visa through the system.

Our trouble started with the advent of arriving at the Maple leaf lounge. The word on their notice board clearly read our flight was canceled. Air Canada has tendency to cancel flights if they don’t have a totally full flight. Now while Diana had the foresight to buy a pass to Maple-Leaf lounge for the troglodytes of Toronto, this part of the overall experience is becoming ever more stress-free. I have no allocated points that would allow me even into a washroom at Pearson. Diana, in her wisdom bought a Maple-Leaf Lounge pass for me.

We are currently well ensconced, well fed and for the first time in my life I had a relaxing glass of wine at 11 o’clock in the morning. For all those that did not know, wine at 11 AM is purely medicinal. In fact we been up for most of the day having risen in total darkness in anticipation of the dehumanization process with US border security, which did not culminate in my being dragged off into a dark room with big men in black balaclavas, large truncheons and electrical wires.
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It being now the second booked flight cancellation and now the third flight has also been cancelled as well. Diana has used her contacts at AC to establish if we are actually on the flight to Boston at all. Guess what, we are not on any planes. Oh my God I don’t beleive it! we don’t exist…Maybe a curse from the Grateful Dead.

So, I got up at 5 o’clock in the morning to deal with a Canadian airline conundrum, a little seasonal snow, which seems to confuse the entire Nation. Doesn’t Canada get snow every Year? Who knows if we will get to Boston at all ???

The intrepid Daina returns to report back that the 4 o’clock flight has also been canceled. Who knows we may get on the 6 o’clock. No that is cancelled too!!

Now given the number of flight cancellations and the amount of free wine available in the lounge with the number of hours that we have been here I think I could consume my weight in wine and other alcoholic beverages and pay for the flight.

Hey, a nice Air Canada employee called Michael Douglas did come by and tried to help us as we consume yet another glass of wine.

To be continued…..