my life as it is

You’d think that there couldn’t be anything worse to a bus stop other than the occasional rapid halt causing passenger inertia.

I was on Piedmont and College, heading home.  It was only a bus stop away, but I decided to hop on the 52L cause the construction going on at Boalt is kind of icky.  I was about to get off on Bancroft and College when this police motorcycle rolls up out of nowhere.  He blocks the entry so passengers can’t come in/out and tells the driver that “there is someone on the bus that [he] has to speak to”.  There are five people on the bus, including me.  I don’t know what the other four could have possibly done to warrant an intervention by the authorities, and I was pretty sure I didn’t do anything.

It didn’t occur to me for the longest time that this was my stop.  So one polite inquiry, and I’m off.  The weird part was when my mind sort of “panicked” while I was walking home.  I mean, what if the guy they’re looking for suddenly shoots up the bus or takes a hostage?  Sometimes, when a million thoughts are running through my mind, I lose track of what I should be doing, like paying attention to traffic.  I didn’t bother to observe the pedestrian signals and was starting to cross Durant when I saw a dozen oncoming vehicles at full speed.  And the closest one just had to be a cop car.  It was too obvious.  Good thing she only shook her head at me cause she had to deal with the bus issue.  I swear, it’s the lack of sleep.  I’ve been sleeping around 1 these past couple of days.

I have a portable keyboard I use occasionally since my laptop is small.  Last week, I decided to type up essay quotes on the bed (comfort is important!) and left my laptop on the desk.  I was about 30 minutes into my essay when I got up to check the laptop screen.  Complete rubbish!  All nine lines had some variation of “sdflk,gfgkcv…..mcv dfjgdfncvjdfgiodf ;…lkhjdfl sudxkdjfhaesi”.   So much for being portable.

I didn’t even realize that today was Mardi Gras.  Or the night that Obama gave his speech to the State of the Union.  Or that Lent is tomorrow.  I wanted to give up meat for Lent, but I don’t think that’s going to work very well.  I tried to give up meat this year with my No Meat Mondays project, but it isn’t really working.  More like I keep forgetting.  It is a bit odd for someone to have a pretty good long term memory and forget so much.  I guess possibilities work in many different ways. (:

I think I’ll stick to no sweets/desserts 24/7 and no meat on Fridays until Easter.  I did that last year and failed 4-5 times (due to forgetfulness, surprise surprise), so it won’t be that difficult for me.

In other good news, I saw the tentative Fall 2009 schedule of classes!  Only LS lectures though.  I have half of my schedule planned out already and TeleBEARS isn’t until the middle of April.  (:

Back to midterm review.  I honestly cannot wait until Spring Break is here.  One more month!

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” -Judy Garland