Hec, in this, like so many other things, you are exceptional.
Oh, I know I don't have the usual commute. But I hear all the Planners getting hard-ons about pay-only downtown driving (an option they're looking at for SF, and not uncommon in London I think) and that is yet another place where I'd get screwed, since JZ often drives downtown and drops the car off for me to do the commute.
I have the same beef with Berkeley's incessant blocked streets. I've had it with making particular transit options negatives to force people to do something else. I need to get around by a variety of means - facilitate that. Don't impede it.
So glad to hear the good news beth!
I have chosen to take the fact that matt's mom is still the same as good news, From the little bit I have read - that sounds right. But we don't really know. So I am being extra positive. Thanks everyone.
and I thought I was jokeing about being hungry. nope, I just gobbled my meal in no time at all. I even got it all hot in microwave. I forget that I can get that hungry. Usually I pay so much attention to spaceing food nice and evenly, that i forget what happens when I don't eat as much as should throughout the day . ( Diabetics have two concerns- which boil down to the same thing . Eat enough so you don't get cranky, or sick feeling , or pass out. But never eat to over full - because it means bloodsugar going too high. For mean - that means eat often- and today I ate often - but never very much )
Great news about Matt's mom. Thanks for the update, Beth.
sneaks in a hug of Gris before he becomes all orthodox and it isn't allowed
Eh. From what I can tell, shomer negiah is one of the more commonly ignored practices in modern Orthodoxy. Certainly GG doesn't follow it (obviously). Nor does her family, I believe, as I shook her sister's hand today.
Thanks everybody for your support in my random anxiety post. I'm still not feeling fabulous about this whole thing - the fear is still there - but I'm better for the moment. Y'all are nice.
I had other comments to make, but I forgot them.
General poll: what did you do after you graduated college?
Spent three weeks driving cross-country with my two roommates (and staying with the third roommate for part of it). Mind you, two don't speak to me and one only communicates via LJ, these days, but...
Then I spent two months at home, "looking for a job". Then I moved to DC and temped for a few months. And, um, realized in all the seemingly endless amounts of free time looking for a job that I was gay, and came out.
I wish I'd...gone and done something crazy like move to another country. No better time to do it.
I worked for six months then used the money to backpack around Western Europe for three. Best thing I've ever done.
Like THAT! So jealous of Trudy. And Vortex, cause BUNAC is really cool AND only available after you graduate! (Except for New Zealand, which is until you're 30, which is getting darn closer moment by moment, which scares me...not that I desperately want ot work in New Zealand, but a chance to go work somewhere else is rare!)
having this much opportunity is more than a little overwhelming.
I totally hear that. There are TOO MANY options, really--you can choose where to live, what to do, who to be...
Today is my 8th day without smoking. The little stat thing on Quitnet says that in those 8 days I've NOT smoked 184 cigarettes and I've saved almost $30. Huh.
Go you, Nicole! That sounds like a heavy habit, so it's gotta be extra-tough! Power through!
it beats my previous personal best hourly wage by 67%, so that's pretty cool. And I get to try out commuting by ferry
Dude. Those are both cool!
it beats my previous personal best hourly wage by 67%, so that's pretty cool. And I get to try out commuting by ferry
Andi and I have been watching Monty Python eps. After reading that I had an image in my head of -t saying "I want to commute by fairy." and Eric Idle dressed as a fairy dropping down with a wand, tapping her head and saying "And so you shall!"
Your keyboard to God's monitor, DCJ.
Thank goodness for Whaler's rum .
My sister called - just as I was getting really wound out and restless. I paced around while talking on the phone to her. Then i spotted the rum and poured a bit. I am not exactly tired now - but I am feeling almost mellow and relaxed. I think I am going to get my DVD player, bring it to bed and just watch dvd's 'til I am too tired. I need to wind down a bit more before I crash.
