6 November 2001

We were mentioned in CNN yesterday.

Right next door to Sausage Manor.

It’s 2AM, and I’m supposed to be at the train station in about 4 hours.

Another sleepless night.

It’s funny how much the ordinary things have changed since the attacks. I have to be at the train station at 5:45 in the morning to get to an eleven o’clock meeting in New York. In the old days, I would have rolled out of bed at 8:30, left my apartment at 8:45, caught the 9:00 USAir shuttle and been in Manhattan by 10:30, with time to spare.

To which you might rightly say: “That is so 9/10.”

But these days you have to be at the airport two hours before your departure time — we really mean it — and the train’s cheaper anyway. Besides, there’s something romantic about stepping out my apartment door onto the T and taking trains all the way into Manhattan. A complete rail connection from my house to Penn Station.

In front of the international arrivals door at Logan airport.