30 in 30: Day 18 -- Fancy Tickling

[fivecats]

Watch Your Step
January 2010 Raleighwood, NC
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Day 18→Whatever tickles your fancy

Backtracking today. I finally looked at the Day Numberon the entry I was writing about and realized I was a day off.

Back in November, right after getting our replacement white, four-door Volvo sedan, Bonn requested (rather strenuously) that I start taking the bus from Raleighwood to Chapel Thrill. Co-werkers of mine were doing this and were able to give me all of the details I needed and I was even able to get a bus pass. Tough to turn all of that down.

So nowadays I'm getting up at 6am (the one HUGE drawback) and driving 25 minutes across town to the bus stop/parking lot. The bus takes another 30 or so minutes and drops me off on campus, about a 12 minute walk from my office. In the afternoons I now have a set time when I have to leave by to catch the bus, which certainly beats staying way late in hopes of getting "caught up" -- something which never happens.

I've been spending much of my time on the bus reading. And -- the best part -- when I get sleepy, I just close my eyes and take a quick nap.

All in all, it's not a bad way to commute.

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Comments

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

Not a bad looking bus - looks like one of the new sort they have down in Sydney. When I worked in Sydney - bus catching was a regular thing. Sometimes I'd fall asleep and end up at La Perouse, that's miles from anywhere (Captain Cook stopped there) and long walk home by the cemetery. I'm glad I don't fall asleep at the wheel driving nowdays. :). I miss reading on the bus though.

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

i but i'm taking is an express bus. it starts in downtown raleighwood, makes one stop at the end of town (where i pick it up) and then drives straight through to the UNC campus. even if i were to still be asleep at the UNC stop, there are enough people who i know/know me to make sure i wake up at my stop.

(thanks goodness)

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