Posts Tagged "Muni"
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
I am completely bummed to find out that I’m spending more in commuting costs per year than I make in a month. Granted, at least I’m not losing money trying to get to work but that’s a month + worth of salary I could be using for something else.
Muni is raising their monthly pass to $55 in June and there are rumors of an additional hike to deal with the budget shortfall and that got me thinking, if I’m going to potentially be spending $60 on just the Muni half of my commute, I might as well just spring for a parking pass and drive myself to work. But then the realities of the additional $20 in total on top of mileage and gas forced me to rethink that idea.
There are a couple of options I’ve been feeling out but just haven’t pulled the trigger as of yet since I’m still conducting my reconnaissance. But either way I’m going to have to figure out a way to shave some pennies off this expense until I can move across a bridge and cut out tolls completely. I’d save $960 on tolls a year [not counting when I cross the bridge for church or other random reasons] alone.
But that’s for another day. I need a more realistic solution/alternative at this moment.
So I had to prepare a little introductory speech for my business communications class and it went fairly well. My personal style tends to be more light and humorous and that usually goes over well. During the feedback portion the prof had wondered why any of us would need notes when we were talking about ourselves, because really, who knows us better than we do?
And because one of the rules was that we NOT respond I nearly gave myself heartburn and indigestion trying to keep quiet. Why did I have notes? Because if I didn’t have notes than I would have spent the past two minutes rambling about nothing in particular with a lot of unfinished thoughts and ultimately no insight to who I am. And then you would have docked me points for not clearly organizing my information.
I have notes because I need boundaries. I need to focus. My notes are like the blinder things they put on horses. Yes I sort of kind of just related myself to a horse but you get where I’m taking this right? Exactly; I just proved my point. The last two paragraphs are why I need notes even when talking about myself. Don’t let me wander. Make me go from point A to B in the least amount of moves possible or else I’ll go all dotted line on you.
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I’ll be gone by the time you read this…
We are officially on the clock. Yay for early closures. I’m excited for the weekend that doesn’t involve too much outside hanging out with my aunt and making ice cream sandwiches. Oh yes I am. I’m really excited about that.
Maybe even a bit more than hanging out with my aunt. But I’m sure she’d understand.
Yesterday was actually a pretty decent day. My boss was out sick so I had to sit at her desk, but after work got interesting. I got out a bit early and when I walked to the bus stop, the line for the train I take back to the station was long. I don’t know what exactly was going on [besides the huge traffic backup on the bridge from earlier that afternoon due to a fire on Treasure Island] but there weren’t any trains coming. There was one scheduled in 20 minutes and another in 6 minutes but I didn’t even see anything going on at the station down the road and with all the frustrated people on the platform, I figured they had already been there for a really long time. So instead of waiting, I decided to walk.
It was a nice day so it wasn’t like I was going to hurt any for the walk. But the miraculous thing was, in the 20 minutes it took me to get from my stop to where the trains begin to go underground, I did not see a SINGLE train going downtown. I saw a few coming from downtown that were bunched together, meaning there was some kind of delay going on somewhere along in the tunnel but nothing getting me to the BART station. I was so glad I walked!
Plus, when I did get to the BART station, guess what I saw? Jamba Juice employees handing out free full-sized bottles of their new smoothie drinks. I actually THANKED Muni for being broken. Otherwise I would have completely missed the giveaway.
Oh and I didn’t get to mention this in my other post but I have one complaint about Paris Las Vegas: they didn’t sell any macarons. I was looking for them on Sunday before we left but was so disappointed. For a hotel that is based on Paris, France, with its replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe and an idyllic Parisian village and its crepes, they didn’t have a single macaron. I went into a couple patisseries and didn’t see any. They had a picture of some in one of them but none in the cases! There’s just no way you can painstakingly shrink both the tower and the arc to half it’s size and recreate a street and not be able to hire a Parisian baker to make macarons. I’ve seen Vegas…they go to no limit to create the best. Bad form Paris Las Vegas. Bad form.
You should work on that.
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