Good thing our layover in DC was originally going to be more than 10 hours long. The long delay in leaving SFO was merely a minor inconvenience. After getting our luggage, finding our way back in through security and navigating to approximately the appropriate gate, Adi and Dennis settled in for the wait. I had planned to venture out into the city for a few hours to meet up with Rashida, a former housemate from college, but with the delay, I couldn't count on being able to leave the airport for very long. Washington Dulles is a really big airport, so even just going from one terminal to the next took an absurd amount of time. Rashida was a trooper, though, and came to meet me at the airport instead. I came out to the check-in counters and sat and chatted with her until we got too hungry to continue. I promised to come visit if I ended up back in Boston for medical school. I was still hoping to get off the waitlist at USC at this point. That soon changed.
It took me almost an hour and a half to go back through security and rejoin Adi and Dennis at our gate. I found them at Gordon Biersch. Dennis was watching the England/Algeria game, and Adi was writing an epic work email. The rest of our layover was uneventful, and our flight was on time.
Dennis watched a lot of movies during the flight, including a really bad one with Kristen Bell. He also elbowed Adi so that he wouldn't be able to sleep. I was amazed at Adi's ability to fall asleep pretty much anywhere, at any time, under virtually any conditions. I thought I was pretty good at it myself, but his mastery puts us all to shame.
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