Friday morning: Five things make a post

[scarlettina]

1. After last night's ill-advised binge (though I suppose binges are always ill-advised), this morning my body feels awful and I'm not hungry. It's habit keeps me thinking about breakfast.

2. Last night I dreamed about meeting women whom I knew as children at an open house/estate sale for a condominium in New York City. One of them had a tween-aged daughter who looked a lot like madrobins' daughter, based on the photos she recently posted. This dream may have been provoked, in part, by the anticipation of a trip to Snohomish (one of the antiquing capitols of Washington state), with e_bourne this weekend.

3. Took the bus to work yesterday, a trial balloon for doing it more regularly now that gas prices have in fact reached $4.00 per gallon here in Seattle. It wasn't great but it wasn't awful. The morning bus was, predictably given gas prices, more crowded than I have seen it the few times I've done this before. I enjoyed having the time to read and to actually listen carefully to NPR during the trip. The most annoying thing about it was waiting 20 minutes for my connection in downtown Seattle on the way home. It feels like an enormous waste of time. Still, it did save me a day's gas costs. I'm taking the car today mainly because I have things to do immediately after work that require transportation independence. But I may try to take the bus a couple of times a week from now on. The walking will be good for me and with the weather getting nicer (slooooowly) the fresh air will probably do me good as well.

4. I'm really happy we're heading into a three-day weekend. Time for everything I want to do. And maybe a little extra. We shall see.

5. My expectations for the new Indiana Jones film have been appropriately set by reviews and friends' LJ posts: not great but not bad (sort of like my bus experience). I can live with that. Don't know when I'm going to see the film; want to do it soon.

Comments

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

3. Yeah, I ran into a similar situation. I got lucky because my company recently opened an office way closer to home, so my gas costs had already gone down considerably, but at $4.00/gallon, they are still considerable.

[sara-ramirez-1.livejournal.com]

its 4 bucks here in portland as well.. so unreal!!!

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

3. After riding the bus for so long, a 20-minute connection time sounds like dedicated reading time to me. I don't even notice that anymore.

[sleightgirl.livejournal.com]

If we had better public transportation here, I'd use it...unfortunately, last time I did, it took me 3 hours for a 30 minute drive.