"Nobody knows. It changes practically everyday."
-- Jessica (played by Gaby Hoffmann), in Sleepless in Seattle, while asked how much it costs to fly from Seattle to New York City on Valentine's Day.
Recently, for our trip to AERA, which is going to be held in San Francisco early April, i had been doing a lot of research online.
Take the airfare from New York City for example - leave alone the fact that flying from New York City means three options (LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark) and flying into San Francisco could mean two different nearby airports (SF Int'l Airport and Oakland Int'l Airport) - it IS indeed changing everyday, and the price of a roundtrip ticket could go from $253 to $876! It surely is not about waiting or getting the ticket in advance; it is pure luck.
Isn't this alone NOT going to make tacit agreement between adults an incomprehensible experience? While the fares are manipulated by the airlines in some mysterious ways, the currency, the price of gold in the global market...or even the agreement among adults to pay some arbitrarily defined monetary rewards, to begin with...are all parts of the foundation that our civilization is built upon. Or...is it ever mine?
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