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muckefuckStill not sure what to do with this journal. I'm obviously not motivated to keep offering enticing content, yet at the same time I don't want to abandon it completely. Complicating matters, I don't feel much like doing anything lately. I was explaining to a friend how it took me three weeks just to respond to another friend's offer to get together and he was like, "sounds like depression". Yeah, no shit.
But something amusing happened today that I can write up without much effort. I was standing waiting for the shuttle into work. After a little while, the woman waiting with me commented, "Sometimes it gets late", which amused me because on the walk to the stop I'd just been thinking about typical errors German-speakers make in English and that's near the top of the list. A while after that, a guy standing near her heard her express impatience and showed us that the overdue shuttle wasn't appearing on the tracking app.
She had class at 9:30 and decided to take a cab. "Where do you work?" she asked. "That's only a couple blocks from where I'm going. Want to share a taxi?" We ended up calling a Lyft. In the meantime, I'd seen the Snore King join the line so I hailed him over. Then, just as we were piling in, I glimpsed last year's Secret Crush, a.k.a. the Hottest Ghostbuster and called him over as well.
Stupidly, I got in front, so when HG suggested to SK he put his arm behind him to make more room I died of envy a little. He was just back from Vegas, which SK has gone to for conventions, so they chatted away about that for most of the trip. Thanks toprinceofcairo, I was able to contribute as well. (I used your "It's one of the three man-made objects our astronauts can see from space!" line. As you'd expect, it killed.)
The young woman took all of this in stride and handed me a crumpled ten before getting out. I hit up Snore King for a fiver to give her. The Ghostbuster offered me one, too, "But you'll have to wait for me to get out before I can give it to you." I told him he could pay me back "the next time you see me". Maybe next time he'll call the Lyft and I'll sit in back with him.
But something amusing happened today that I can write up without much effort. I was standing waiting for the shuttle into work. After a little while, the woman waiting with me commented, "Sometimes it gets late", which amused me because on the walk to the stop I'd just been thinking about typical errors German-speakers make in English and that's near the top of the list. A while after that, a guy standing near her heard her express impatience and showed us that the overdue shuttle wasn't appearing on the tracking app.
She had class at 9:30 and decided to take a cab. "Where do you work?" she asked. "That's only a couple blocks from where I'm going. Want to share a taxi?" We ended up calling a Lyft. In the meantime, I'd seen the Snore King join the line so I hailed him over. Then, just as we were piling in, I glimpsed last year's Secret Crush, a.k.a. the Hottest Ghostbuster and called him over as well.
Stupidly, I got in front, so when HG suggested to SK he put his arm behind him to make more room I died of envy a little. He was just back from Vegas, which SK has gone to for conventions, so they chatted away about that for most of the trip. Thanks to
princeofcairo, I was able to contribute as well. (I used your "It's one of the three man-made objects our astronauts can see from space!" line. As you'd expect, it killed.)The young woman took all of this in stride and handed me a crumpled ten before getting out. I hit up Snore King for a fiver to give her. The Ghostbuster offered me one, too, "But you'll have to wait for me to get out before I can give it to you." I told him he could pay me back "the next time you see me". Maybe next time he'll call the Lyft and I'll sit in back with him.
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