omg - the puppy sleeping on his back is dreaming and twitchy and I need to have him here!!

Jessica, exactly! I have to adapt now for where I am -- back East, cross whenever. Here? Wait.

The parks department here in Brooklyn are trying to train people in Prospect Park to obey the lights at crosswalks because there have been so many bike/pedestrian accidents, but it's a loooooooooooooooooong process.

At the risk of sounding like Bill Maher: New Rule: You don't get to make laws about things till you can say the words for them out loud.

omg - the puppy sleeping on his back is dreaming and twitchy and I need to have him here!!

I'm saying.

Now I can't remember if it was in Boston or New York, but someone recently told me about getting a jaywalking ticket in one of those cities, and I literally didn't believe them.

Heh. When we moved from Manhattan to the midwest when I was young, I think that was the first real Twilight Zone moment for my parents, when my dad got a jaywalking ticket two weeks in.

That and when he asked a coworker where the nearest water fountain was and they directed him four blocks away to city hall.

Now I can't remember if it was in Boston or New York, but someone recently told me about getting a jaywalking ticket in one of those cities, and I literally didn't believe them.

I've gotten jaywalking tickets in Oakland and in Los Angeles (Westwood).

One was obviously a matter of bolstering the city budget (the streets in Oakland were completely bare of traffic when I crossed and it wasn't a busy street at any time), and one was a form of harassment (Westwood - fucking LAPD).

I've been yelled at by a cop for jaywalking in Oakland (with msbelle! before your wedding!) but we told the cop we were from New York and he let us go.

I am guessing the incidence of pedestrian crossing accidents is probably high in LA if that's mostly the place people cross the roads, like you guys are suggesting. I don't know if that means it's more dangerous there, or that's just the only place it can happen, though.

I am reasonably resigned to the risk of getting fucked up that way, but I cannot make peace with standing back away from the curb and hoping that six lanes of traffic will coincidentally clear up all at once.

because they are liars.

I had secret donuts and fast food today. no one tell mac.

annoying co-worker had to re-takeover some duties because someone quit. She has been calling companies all week trying to get a handle on the stuff, and EVERY SINGLE person she talks to, she tells how she used to do this work, but it was done for the last 2 years by this other person took it over. Now it has been given back to her with NO turnover at all, and is just trying to figure out the mess and when she did it there was this and that and the other and things need to back to being exactly like that, because that made sense.