In normal times, it is an hour, and they have an indoor bus station now. I like it and I read. There are days, though (mostly when I talk about it) where it is a perfect storm of being late and cold and frustrated. It has actually been better since the bus station because so far they are running buses ever 30 - 40 minutes now instead of every hour!
They have also made improvements in how you board and depart, so that mostly people stay in line (there are metal barriers that force you to be single file. So that is nice.
The one thing I do not understand that they did was put all the buses in bays that are parked diagonally. You would think then that they could all peel off and go forward, but the first bay in line is made so the bus can't go forward, it has to do a really awkward backing up around the bus behind it that seems to require both the driver, and two people directing it. I know this because I am in Bay 2 right behind it, and we always have to wait for it. After that, all the buses can just go right in a line.
I was really disappointed by the article in the NYTImes today about all the supplements that are not actually in the supplements! Where is a person supposed to get the real stuff, then?? Who can you trust??
Those were all store brands, though. I think (though the article didn't say, and I don't have data to point to right now) that brand names are okay. MAYBE.
[link] so David Oyelowo makes all sorts of great points in this, and does it with humor and passion and all sorts of stuff, and two things:
Thing one: right, that's why I lost interest in Spooks/MI-5 after Danny.
Thing two: please, David Oyelowo, make an audio recording of the phone book.
GRE achieved with a score of 166 verbal (about 96th percentile) and 161 math (about 80th percentile). I parked in a deck where the arms were up when I got there, but down when I got out, and I had no swipe card to exit. A kind college student swiped me out.
It's a trap!
Congrats on GRE achievement.
I really don't intend to ever take that stupid test again.
Congrats on acing the GRE, Kiba! Also on never having to take the stupid test again.
My BF and I just booked a hotel room in London for New Year's. We'd been talking about going back and we decided to just do it. Hopefully in 11 months I can have enough money saved to actually afford it! Yikes. No more non-necessary purchases for a while.
Way to go, Kiba!
Yay travel plans, Zen!
I am so angry at Excel right now I can't work. It just decided I can't save files. Ctrl-S -> whirling cursor thingy -> message box telling me file cannot be saved. I just lost so much work.
But I have tea. Lipton, but still.
Also mildly miffed that our group meetings with the department, uh, I forget her title, director? Anyway, those will now be every 8 weeks instead of once a month, and will be on Mondays, which is my busiest day full of deadlines and incoming data, at 11, when I would prefer to take my lunch. It's not filling me with confidence that our management team is in touch with us workers (the ostensible purpose of these meetings, keeping communication lines open).
