Sometimes, B5 really does say it all.

Susan Ivanova: "I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference."

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Sinclair: "Ready?"
Delenn: "Why is it that your people always ask someone if they are ready right before you are about to do something massively unwise?"
Sinclair: "Tradition."

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Dr. Stephen Franklin: "I realize that I always defined myself in terms of what I wasn't. I wasn't a good soldier like my father. I wasn't the job. I wasn't a good prospect for marriage or kids. Always what I wasn't, never what I was. And when you do that, you miss the moments. And the moments are all we've got. When I thought I was going to die, even after everything that's happened, I realized I didn't want to let go. I was willing to do it all over again, and this time I could appreciate the moments. I can't go back, but I can appreciate what I have right now. And I can define myself by what I am instead of what I'm not."
Captain John Sheridan: "And what are you?"
Dr. Stephen Franklin: "Alive. Everything else is negotiable."




And the week continues.

air travel today

Just got an e-mail from my sister, who was traveling home from Paris to Boston today (via Dublin). She reports that the lines were long and the amounts of toothpaste and coffee tossed by the wayside immense, but tempers were remarkably mellow, and all the bottles and whatnot they had to check made it through safe, sound, and unpilfered.