fingers are thawed now.

After wrapping my semi-frozen digits around a warm mug for 10 minutes, they finally have some of their agility back. Why are my fingers frozen, you ask? Cuz Mags and I are missing brain cells. Why did we stand outside in the freezing cold to chat for 20 minutes when my front door was 15 feet away? Why?

It was good to hear about her job though, even though people around you seem a little.. uhm.. unreasonable.. just stick with it and nothing will bug you after this. hahahah. You can list "Tolerant of most "pains in the ass" as a skill on your resume. (Pains in the ass? Pain in the asses?) In the meantime, find something closer to home. Man, traffic sucks so bad.

Sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic I think of scenarios or inventions that would make driving during rush hour more tolerable. The traffic system in I, Robot comes to mind a lot. That computer controlled streetcar-esque grid they have with controlled speed, acceleration and everything else seems like such an ideal. No more stupid idiots taking half the green light to cross the intersection cuz of their slow pickup; no more morons leaving three minivan lengths between themselves and the car in front of them; no more assholes who do not signal when they turn/switch and hence causing you to quickly hit your brakes. Assholes.

Based of half a year of rush hour driving on city roads and various highways, I have these findings from my observations:

• the louder and flashier the car is, the more grotesque the guy is behind the wheel... and the more of a skank they have in their passenger seat
• if a corolla is in front of you, be prepared to switch lanes soon... if it's silver, switch ASAP
• pickup truck drivers would rather run you off the road than to you let you in from an on-ramp
• the bigger the car is (ie. lincolns and the like), the slower and the more non-chalant the driver is. They will drive at their own speed and hold up traffic and not bother to signal when they change lanes. Why? Because "What's the rush? I'm old and important, I set my own schedule, suckers!"
• people who drive Benz or BMW SUVs think they own the fucking parking lot. Lexus SUVs are almost just as bad

I don't know what I would do if I had to drive a long way everyday. 15 minutes each way is already irritating. I need to find ppl who live near me so we can carpool. If the bus system had better and more frequent connections between north york and richmond hill, I would be inclined to take the bus at least on some days. But alas, if I am going to have to leave an hour earlier than now AND pay 8 bucks a day to "ride the rocket" and "go viva", I'll stick with my own purple rocket. Wait, Ab's gonna make that sound dirty. I meant my car, which is indeed purple in the mornings.

Even rantings about driving. Yes yes, Eve, tough shit. Yes yes, I should try waiting for the bus in the cold for half an hour. Right. Hey, you want to complain? Do it on your own blog. :P

9 days people! Oooooooooooooooohhh yeeaaaaaaaa!

time for: studying. again.