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So I love how I totally missed that there was going to be a TTC strike today. I woke up before my alarm (when it's hot I can't sleep much) and so I didn't hear the news on the radio, and I knew there was a possibilty of a strike but I'd pretty much pushed that aside in my mind. Ergo I got up, got ready for work at the regular time, and had just gone out the front door when my dad came running after me to tell me there was no TTC. Fuck. I was lucky enough that my mom was in a pretty good mood and she got up and drove me to work. It's not a walkable distance and it's about a $50 cab ride on a good day, in the traffic today it would have been more. Ergo I was so stuck. So I got a ride in, and then of course realized I was then stranded at work since my mother was not playing my chauffer all day and wasn't driving out to get me at 7. Fuck again. I lucked out though because the one other person I know in the building had a ride to Bathurst and King so I got in on that.... which meant I had to leave work 2 1/2 hours early and I was almost 1/2 an hour late getting in. Oy. By the time we were leaving though the TTC was starting to run but I still took the ride just in case, I really did not want to find myself stranded when there was no one in the office at all.
In the end this was a good plan because we got on a street car right away, and there were 3 in a row and one just ahead as well.... and then at Yonge they announced a short turn, we got off to catch the subway and the subway was all barracaded off still... and then we looked around and the other streetcars that had been behind us were totally gone. The hell? So we just walked from there. My friend lived about a 20-30 minute walk away and I went with her to Queen and then decided that I was just going to walk since there were no streetcars in sight. And I didn't see a streetcar until I was about 20 minutes from my house!
However I bought more sunscreen, only SPF 45 (as opposed to my crazy SPF 70 I have at home) so I think I stayed pretty burn free .
In other ailments, I thought I had a splinter in the bottom of my foot so tonight I tried to pull it out and it turned out to be a piece of glass, ow! That was not fun to get out.
And that was my crazy day. However I did get a slushie at the end of it *yum* because it was so hot! Well it's not really that bad, just walking in the sunshine for over an hour is hot.
In the end this was a good plan because we got on a street car right away, and there were 3 in a row and one just ahead as well.... and then at Yonge they announced a short turn, we got off to catch the subway and the subway was all barracaded off still... and then we looked around and the other streetcars that had been behind us were totally gone. The hell? So we just walked from there. My friend lived about a 20-30 minute walk away and I went with her to Queen and then decided that I was just going to walk since there were no streetcars in sight. And I didn't see a streetcar until I was about 20 minutes from my house!
However I bought more sunscreen, only SPF 45 (as opposed to my crazy SPF 70 I have at home) so I think I stayed pretty burn free .
In other ailments, I thought I had a splinter in the bottom of my foot so tonight I tried to pull it out and it turned out to be a piece of glass, ow! That was not fun to get out.
And that was my crazy day. However I did get a slushie at the end of it *yum* because it was so hot! Well it's not really that bad, just walking in the sunshine for over an hour is hot.