Wow... I love the feeling of emerging from winter... Just to revel in a relatively warm day, crisp, little wind.... wonderful ( Read more... )

so, I realized right as I was leaving the house this morning that I had to move the car for street cleaning.  I ended up missing my train by 2 seconds.  Grr...  which wasn't so bad because five minutes later another train came ( Read more... )

today was the best ride into work in WEEKS.  Or ever.  I'd have to think more about that... but WOW ( Read more... )

It's been a few days since my last bitching-session.  mainly because my commute has been decent.  Why is it that we are so often compelled to speak out or write as a result of terrible events ( Read more... )

I have to begin this way:  Last night I saw an old movie I've been wanting to see for a long time, one of those film classics - "Bicycle Thief."  Wow.  It has held up well over time: the joy, the sorrow, the stress... and the man just needs a bicycle to work.   There are some memorable moments, as well as some that hit home for me personally, i.e. ( Read more... )

The Commute home is a very different beast from the commute TO work - starting from deep down inside of me, where instead of pushing nauseous anxiety about timeliness as far down inside me as possible, I zone out, wondering what the hell I'm doing with my life, feeling tired and squished (and almost ALWAYS have to wait for the damn R-train).  In ( Read more... )

So, it occurred to me this morning on my very SMELLY commute that I could unleash this rage in a properly, contained way that doesn't torture my family and friends with the same boring whining day in and out.  The idea feels refreshing to me, because commuting is a varied, often hellish ordeal, though sometimes it is blissful (and those times I ( Read more... )