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I’m sitting here in Lehigh Valley airport in Allentown waiting to board the first leg of my trip to San Francisco.  I was reminded why I chose to fly out of LV and not Philly: no waiting in line, free WiFi, and a calm waiting area.  This is the way I want to start off my day–especially if I have to be in a plane for this long. 

I decided to go through my carry-ons just to see what I actually brought.  Here’s the main inventory:

• camera
• lots of pens
• notebooks
• union contract
• conference schedule
• laptop (obviously)
• web cam
• headset
• books
  • Democracies to Come  (shameless, I know)
  • Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinski
  • Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
  • Academic Collective Bargaining , ed. Ernst Benjamin and Michael Mauer
  • Rhetoric: A User’s Guide, by John Ramage
  • Emergent Publics, by Ian Angus
  • Communists Like Us, by Toni Negri and Felix Guattari
  • Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only, by Linda Brodkey
• June 2008 issue of CCC

Yes, that’s actually what’s in my bags.