This is the first day of the rest of someone's life...

[hawkwing_lb]

...The first day of the rest of my life, in this case.

University=Good.
Commuting=Bad.

This is the math that will dominate the rest of my year. And probably next year, as well. I'm wrecked with a capital W. Concentration is shot. Will not be working on novel-project tonight. Maybe not until the weekend.

Good news: more words (approx 650) on short story 'The Names of God'. Which is much weirdness, since I don't know what it's about. (Change? Nah. Freedom? Nope. Divinity? Probably not.) Now it only needs an ending. (Train tomorrow. Or maybe the library. After I do assigned ancient history work, of course.)

And I'll stop babbling now.

Comments

Re: Commuting is always bad..

[otakuloki.livejournal.com]

I used to live in the NYC area. I was working in Queens, and lived in Jersey City. Since I doubt this means much to you - it translated to about a two hour commute. One way.

The good news was that since I was doing shift work, and preferred to work the later shifts, I rarely had to deal with rush hour. The bad news is that I'm borderline claustrophobic. Avoiding rush hour wasn't just a good idea. Two hours of life as an undead sardine in the can was a good definition of Hell to my mind.

Now I just use a the local buses. They aren't very convenient or all that cheap here, unless I'm trying to get to the center of the city. A ten minute drive by car takes an hour and a half with bus transfers. My sympathies on the long and annoying commute (especially during rush hours).

Re: Commuting is always bad..

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I am extraordinarily fortunate in being able to commute by train. The ranting was largely yesterday's bad experience, and the day before at rush hour.

Trains are cool, when you get a seat.