To continue the Steven Wright-esque train of thought, can anyone tell me why seats & traytables need to be in their full upright position in preparation for takeoff & landing? Does the positioning really make that much of a difference in the balance of the plane?

In other news, I'm starting to get hits from Google again. This mildly disturbs me because I had included code in my pages that specifically banned Google's crawlers from indexing my page -- I wanted people to find my page because they found a link & wanted to read what I had to say, not because they were looking for "Olsen+twins+nude+with+Jello+Osama." But the thing is, these people finding my page on Google seem to be looking for me specifically. A couple of them were searches for my name and another was a search for my blog title. I'm wondering if some of my old friends are starting to go through that "what does it all mean" phase described in High Fidelity and want to reminisce about past times.

Speaking of which, my dreams have become populated with people that I haven't thought about in years. Friends from high school, friends from summer camp, and an odd dream where I was arguing with the governor of Massachusetts but the role of me was being played by Emilio Estevez. (I can't explain the last one.) I'm trying to figure out if the sudden appearance of all these people I haven't thought about is due to the fact that I'm going through all my old belongings to try to figure out what to keep & what to pitch, or just plain due to the fact that I'm suddenly again living in the town I grew up in. The only consolation I have is to constantly remind myself that this is only temporary, I sublet my place so I had to get out as soon as I could because he needed to move in immediately, and I'll have a place of my own in Los Angeles within two months.