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It's eight o'clock in the morning, and I'm on the Lynx bus to Orlando International Airport. My flight doesn't leave until almost twelve o'clock, so I'm probably going to be there a bit earlier than I need to be, but I have a great deal to ponder this morning.

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I still have more than an hour before my flight begins to board, and have nothing more to say about last night's events, so I'll post what I've written of today's entry thus far and move on to working on my untitled story, although I doubt I'll be focused enough to get much further.

AirTran oversold my flight into Boston by a relatively massive margin, and asked for volunteers to stay in Orlando for an extra day. Not only was the hotel room free, but AirTran also offered two round-trip tickets to any volunteers. Being reluctant to come home to confront the events that transpired in my absence, I was the first to put my name on a list of volunteers to fly home tomorrow, instead of today.

It was only after volunteering my seat that it hit me that staying would require giving advance notice to both parties I sought to avoid, my landlord and his daughter. I did so just now, modifying the true tale of the events only to omit the fact that I gave up my seat voluntarily.

AirTran placed me at the Country Inn & Suites, a hotel near the airport with a distinctly cheap feel compared to my previous lodgings in the Downtown area. It has a bed, however, and enough pillows to prop my shoulders against the headboards to type this... which I suppose is all I can demand from a hotel room that is, after all, free.

The hotel has room service, but since I'm hoping to finish this vacation with no additional expenditures I'll wait for tomorrow's free continental breakfast from 6:30 to 9:00 AM instead.

I've spent five hours laying on this bed in my boxer shorts, my torso propped up against a wall of pillows, themselves laid against the headboard... and they've been the most productive hours, Untitled Story-wise, that I've had for several months. I wrote nine hundred words of dialogue and explanation, and finished the dialogue-heavy section of story that I've been stuck on for months.

It's now almost nine o'clock, and I have a wake-up call scheduled for a continental breakfast at 7:00 that will probably be my only meal until I arrive back home in Salem... so I don't want to miss it! With that in mind, I'll post this final portion of today's entry and get to bed.