What to do for 9 hour flight
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Although I am an avid reader, for some reason I find it difficult to concentrate on the plane (although I read the first Bridget Jones on one sitting across the Atlantic). So a large part of my arsenal is a book bag of two or three books, in case I get bored with the one I am reading; work-related items, which I never do; newspapers and magazines in both Italian and English as well as additional reading material I find at the airport before boarding. And then I snatch all the free newspapers I can when boarding. Needless to say, I am grumpy and weighted down for the rest of the trip. <BR><BR>The individual, back-of-the-seat screens have helped, I admit, but there is still the dreaded dead time between movies, which are increasingly more mundane. <BR><BR>Unfortunately, I have found the "cure." I say unfortunately because I am now addicted to the damn thing. I bought a little handheld electronic version of Scrabble, which you can play against the computer or with another person. I got it for Target for just under 30 dollars and played it most of the way from Houston to Paris. <BR><BR>But I really shouldn't be telling you this. I feel like the pusher standing around the schoolgrounds, saying, "Come on try it, it won't hurt you."