Public transit here is pretty stupid.

Yup. It's too bad, though, that it doesn't make sense to have a water taxi ride in your commute. That'd be neat! Well, except in gusty weather.

I use agita, but ISTR Bob asking me what it meant recently. So I guess I don't use it enough.

I hate riding the Red Line past Wrigley if it's before or after a Cubs game. Lots of people who never take public transit, who won't move to the center of the train so others can get on. And they're often drunk. I recall the loud shriek and laughter of the drunk woman who was leaning against the doors when they opened....

I use "agita" all the time. It has sort of replaced "tsurris" in my vocabulary.

When I worked downtown (my first job out of college), I never once drove to work. The first four months, I took Metra from Joliet (and either walked from the LaSalle Street station to the office on Grand and Dearborn, where Spago's is at now, or took the bus), and then the rest of the year I worked there I took the Green Line from River Forest to the Clark/Lake stop.

If I could have, I would have taken public transit from Oak Park/Forest Park up here to Riverwoods, but the one time I had to do that (damn Denver boot), it took me three hours to get the 35 miles.

Mmmm. I'm eating a big free corporate cookie right now. I don't know if they over-ordered for a meeting or were just feeling generous but this is a serious chocolate chip cookie.

The problem with talking to people is that sometimes they talk back.

Darned people.

The problem I have with "agita" is that it lives in my brain halfway between "sounds like something existential that pretentious philosophy students talk about" and House yelling "Attica! Attica! Attica!"

Why, yes, I do need more sleep, thank you so much for noticing.

Courtesy wars with the right to personal space, and too many times girls are told they're rude when they just want to be left alone.

Yes, it’s horrid how many girls put up with unwanted attention because they don’t want to be called a bitch or a dyke.

Except for Vortex who will spork you if you try to take her armrest.

don’t need a spork

Yeah, on public transportation I see a lot of men take up space from the seat next to theirs in addition to their own.

I walk up to these guys and say “excuse me” very loudly, and when they move grudgingly, sit down, taking my full allotment of space. Tip: swing your bag wide as you sit down so that they have to move to avoid it, thus allowing you to get the maximum amount of space.

don’t need a spork

She's so badass she can spork you without a spork. It's a like a zen koan.

How does one spork without spork?
Vortex.

Yeah, on public transportation I see a lot of men take up space from the seat next to theirs in addition to their own.

I gotta say, in San Francisco, while there are plenty of space-taking men, women are far more likely to spread out with their gym bag and other gear taking up two seats.

I just plop my ass down. Plenty of space!

ION, WTF is wrong with me? My boss just called me, and I knew it was her, and I picked up anyway! It turned out OK, though -- and I have had random feelings that maybe I ought to be one of the people she calls at all hours. She was calling to scream about the insane comment a senior manager made in an all-staff meeting along the lines of "this is why I'm not hiring any more people with kids!" Obviously, she was kidding, but STILL. (Formerly full-time at-home mother started working for her on Monday, didn't come back on Tuesday.)