Now Potsdam, NY may not be exciting, but let me tell you, the Syracuse airport is really not exciting. We’ve been “in transit” now for over nine hours, but after a three hour bus ride to the airport, we haven’t made much more progress.

In the organic chemistry lab when I spend the entire period running a reaction, only to find in the last ten minutes of lab that I did not get the necessary product, I can often only say that the lab gods weren’t with me that day. Well, today I don’t much care about the lab gods (I will soon…), but I’m much more concerned with the travel gods that have let me down yet again. With three flights, it might be expected that something would go wrong, and it did. With our first flight delayed indefinitely, they’ll be no way we can catch our other flights. So, they’re instead sending us to JFK, where we’ll fly out again in the morning. We can only hope that the travel gods will be with us then!