Leaving DC, and out of sync videos in PhotoBooth

I am finally flying to the West coast! After a two hour delay, which left me pretty frustrated. I found myself getting anxious since it’s pretty clear we will miss our connection. However, I stopped myself to do a mental check list that went like this: “Will anyone die? Will you die? Is there anything you can do?” To which I answered: “Probably not”, “probably not”, “scream at the flight attendants? Oh wait, that’s just like when clients screamed at me over things completely out of my control.” For the record, I never scream at anyone, but I understand the temptation, as it is the only control you have in some situations. I wonder if that’s the purpose of flight attendants (and social workers for that matter)—to be the person people blame.
I’ve been working on my prep work for the past week. I was doing a Javascript tutorial through Codeacademy. I like Codeacademy for the constant positive reinforcement (we get a “Way to go!” message after every exercise), but it can get tedious, especially when it begins to feel like they are condescending to you by spelling out everything I should type step by step. Of course, then, if they stop doing that, I get angrier (why wouldn’t they tell me exactly what to type?). However, after I saw a job posting for a position where I would be helping nonprofits with CiviCRM and PHP, I found myself more energized to get through the class, so that I could go on to the PHP tutorial. Then I returned to some of my old Ruby problems and found that all that training had really helped me understand the fundamentals better. Okay, Codeacademy, you win.
This morning I spent a few hours recording an introductory video for my program. The few hours involved my recording about five practice videos (the first few of which, were me speaking for one minute, and then cutting myself off abruptly when I decided I hated it). I had a full video recorded, only to learn that the video and sound weren’t syncing up! I troubleshooted (troubleshot?) using this  Youtube video, and it worked! For the time it took me to record one “test” video, and then by the time I had recorded another video, the audio and video was off again. For anyone else encountering a similar problem in PhotoBooth, what worked for me was to record the video in iMovie instead. Then I posted my first YouTube video! I know, clearly I’m still living in 2004. (I actually don’t know when YouTube came out, but I do know that I learned about it from my grandmother, who described to me “a website where people put videos of themselves.” I recently heard a similar description of Vine as “an app where people record themselves brushing their teeth.”)
This is the view from my plane:

Whenever I get where I’m headed, at least there’s some nice scenery along the way.
By the time this is posted—I will have arrived somewhere.
Update: We are in Portland at last, after agreeing to fly to Seattle then renting a car and driving down. I am delirious with lack of sleep, but happy to be on the West coast at last.