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30 Oct 2005, 06:31AM: Brief Notes On The East Coast: My lips seem to chap more easily here.

Do not take the yummy cornbread home from District Chophouse in DC and then warm a small slice of it in a microwave for two minutes. It may catch fire.

The day that you think you will take the subway a bunch of times, and that therefore it makes sense to get the unlimited one-day Fun Pass, will be the day you take the subway exactly once.

I am having fun.

30 Oct 2005, 07:20AM: Sic Transit Gloria Transit: I've traveled using three subway systems, Amtrak, a plane, a taxi, a privately owned car, and my feet this week.

30 Oct 2005, 08:18PM: In A Week Of Subways, Writer Considers Accidents of Chance (And Cars): My attempt at an NYT-style headline. About to go to sleep in NYC for the last time on this trip. My new column is up.

I don't remember the crash. I swore, wide-eyed, as I slammed on the brakes and then stared in shock, past a deflating air bag and through an intact windshield, past a crumpled hood, at the car I'd stopped by running into its rear end.

The CD player was still playing They Might Be Giants. I turned it off.

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