home for the holidays... just barely. i flew home sunday. some lady had a pretend hand grenade on a plane out of san diego on american airlines that day. i flew them. then, the image of a gun appeared on a security screening monitor at lax that night as well. (thank god i flew out of burbank.) and i got delayed for two hours in dallas because it was raining too much. (got home just in time to see it arrive the next day.)

i did get "randomly selected" (lucky me!) to be searched before boarding my plane out of dallas though. the little man thoroughly went through my purse and my laptop bag. he ran a baton over me... THEN pat me down. at least he was polite... asking me "if i didn't mind this?" "okay to do that?"

while i am happy to help out -- i have to wonder why/how i got picked for this. i hardly think i look dangerous. do i look like i have the potential to do something stupid on an airplane? what did i do to make that guy send me over to the search table? i wonder if they just have some quota they have to check on each flight -- the only other person checked on my flight was a middle-aged man. or, does the computer just select people totally at random? i'm sure there's an article about it somewhere. does the airline know something about me that i don't know?