Columbus, OH and NYC can't get along

The cheapest roundtrip airfare between Columbus, OH and NYC is $270 and the roundtrip airfare between NYC and San Francisco is $216. How can I make sense out of this? It's cheaper to fly to SF than to Ohio??? How can it be? There are so many mysteries out there, and this is one of them. In fact, traveling between OH and NYC is not permitted? unethical?

It's finally Friday! On cold, rainy Friday night, the only thing I want to do is to drink hot tea and watch TV! (well, not too different from any other weekends) I was diligently reading social psychology articles untill 20 minutes ago but I started to fall asleep. Oh, well...it's Friday. I'm tired so I shoud just watch TV and let my brain cells die. Earlier tonight, I was feeling like going to a bar for some nice drink. Then I realized...1) I'm broke 2) no friend to go with 3) rainy and cold 4) tired.I got a free pot of plant today. Some lady posted online that she's giving away a few pots of plant, so I went up to her place on 110th street to pick one up. I already forgot what the name of the plant was but I like it very much. I put it in the living room because it's so empty there. Now I have to name the plant. I'm thinking..."midori-chan" I can name it with some guy's name and substitute it as a boyfriend...no, that's too sad.