Is it a two-hour premiere again?

(Also, who do you like to win? I liked Lynn and Alex's video, but I'm not sure how well I see them doing. Already hate Megan & Heidi, based mostly on their stupid headbands and Barbie hair.)

Confession time: I'm kind of intrigued to see how Rob and Amba will do. I'm guessing pretty well.

Brenda is me, although I don't plan on watching. What's the deal? Are Rob and Ambah being paid appearance money to do the show?

I am so Frank with the "enough with the snow already".

Goes to high-five Kristin. Slips on ice hiding under slush and pratfalls instead.

Yep, two hours long tonight. I've been too busy the past month to learn anything about the teams, so I have no current favorites. I suspect Rob and Amba will either do spectacularly well, or crash & burn in the first leg.

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Are Rob and Ambah being paid appearance money to do the show?

Nope, they're just regular contestants. The only thing special about them is that they got on the show by going up to Phil at a CBS press thingy and saying, "Hi, we want to run the Amazing Race." The funny part is that he'd been travelling so much for TAR and NOW that he had no clue who they were.]

While waiting for my flight to Houston, there was a guy in the waiting area on his cell phone.

Ah! Ah! You know how I was surrounded by a sea of senior citizens with nametags going on a cruise on my way to California? Well, on my way back, I got a lake of senior citizens coming back from a trip to Mexico.

This is after I've been surrounded by screaming babies and forced to move from my aisle seat several times an hour for the upper-middle-class, middle-aged husband and wife who looked at me like I was mentally challenged when I didn't correctly interpret their minor changes in position as, "Pardon me, but I need to use the airplane lavatory." Why? Because I was reading. And every once in a while I'd look up to see them both staring at me, upon which I would prompt, "Do you need me to get up?"

Ah, flying. Nothing like it to remind me why I am not, and never will be, a people person.

I've been too busy the past month to learn anything about the teams, so I have no current favorites.

I never do pre-investgation, I am generally too: lazy, distracted, or busy to do so, but I find I like meeting the teams "fresh." Also, it allows me to laugh hysterically at all the dorky poses during the opening credits. Though I suspect that would remain a constant no matter how much pre-show prep I invested.

It sounds like you're suffering from post-con concussion.

I only wish. Then I'd have a reason not to be at work. The luggage mostly landed on my lap, after a brief bounce-and-scrape off my face.

Sounds like you could get a frivolous lawsuit out of it, shrift. He was, after all, warned.

On the way back to Michigan, I had my first experience with a passenger not using caution when opening the overhead compartments, and his luggage fell on my head.

When I saw this, I had to mention the flight where the overhead bin above my head popped open as we were taking off.

Luckily, nothing fell out.

Goes to high-five Kristin. Slips on ice hiding under slush and pratfalls instead.

It's okay. I'm still down here from when I fell the first time it snowed. We can low-five.