travel and Avengers and KH and things
I've been thinking a lot about my commute since I made the post about taking lunchthings, and ways in which it stresses me out. I had been assuming that getting parking near the commuter rail (as opposed to bus -> transit train) was going to be prohibitively expensive, but I actually looked it up the other day. My transit pass is $100 a month. Commuter rail would be $92, plus $85 in parking.
To do transit, I leave the house at 6:40 and make it to work around 8 if I'm lucky and nothing fucks up (and then I have 20 minutes or so to get Starbucks and get my brain wrapped around the concept of the day and what have you.) I leave work at 4:30, and if I'm very lucky and the bus is running on time, I get back home at 6:05-6:10. (Many days it isn't; last Thursday I waited over an hour and no buses showed.)
On the other hand, if I drove to the commuter rail and took that downtown (and commensurately switched back to an 8:50-4:50 schedule, since my office is pretty chill about letting us maneuver schedules a little bit to catch transit), I could leave the house at 7:20 and be through my front door at 5:45.
I think the $75 difference might very well be worth an extra hour every day; assuming 20-ish workdays in a month, I'm paying $3 for that hour. Plus, I'd get a half hour of walking in between commuter rail and my office. I'm thinking that sounds like a sweet deal. (And commuter rail is cleaner and quieter and so much nicer than transit.) Maybe I'd use that extra half hour to work out. ....maybe.
In other news, I finally wandered back to Kingdom Hearts Final Mix; I cleared the Hercules Cup (finally!!) and I'm wandering around collecting extra shinies before I go on to Hollow Bastion. I definitely don't care enough to Platinum the entire thing (repeat after me: we learned our lesson with KH2 there will be no Proud Mode) so I'm not even sure why I'm collecting shiny bits when I probably could just whoosh through to the end, but apparently that's how I roll.
In other news, I went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm not as mad about it as many people seem to be; I enjoyed it, and while I have some quibbles, I felt like it was a reasonably entertaining use of my $10 and three hours. (Also: I am always here for James Spader trolling the shit out of everything.) I mean, I understand why people have a lot of the complaints they do, but I'm not sure if I agree with all of them or even many of them. (Also, not knowing the Civil War plotline, I had already said I was going to cry all the way through Captain America 3 and the more I hear about Civil War the more I realize that's horrifyingly true.)
...speaking of James Spader trolling everything, I really need to start catching up on this year's TV; I kept abreast of Criminal Minds pretty well, but everything else has fallen by the wayside, including The Blacklist. DCP is over really soon though, and that's six to twenty hours a week I'm going to get back when it is :D :D :D of course, there's not much likelihood I'll use that for things other than FF14, but there you go.
In other other news, fiction writing has been remarkably difficult for me the last few weeks; every time I open a file I just sort of sit there staring at it and wondering how words happen. Usually I spend twenty minutes staring at it, ten minutes fucking about on Plurk, ten minutes dragging 200 painful words out of somewhere, and then I close the file and go do something else that I'm enjoying. I thought perhaps I was working on something frustrating but I tried switching it up to something else and that's not helping, and I'm finding myself short of fannish ideas or the will to work on them. I'm not quite sure what to do about that other than stare sadly at the accusing blink of the Scrivener cursor and then abandon it, which is not actually accomplishing anything. Brain, why you do?
Speaking of which, time for my nightly routine of staring at the cursor and then abandoning it. But maybe tonight is the night.
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To do transit, I leave the house at 6:40 and make it to work around 8 if I'm lucky and nothing fucks up (and then I have 20 minutes or so to get Starbucks and get my brain wrapped around the concept of the day and what have you.) I leave work at 4:30, and if I'm very lucky and the bus is running on time, I get back home at 6:05-6:10. (Many days it isn't; last Thursday I waited over an hour and no buses showed.)
On the other hand, if I drove to the commuter rail and took that downtown (and commensurately switched back to an 8:50-4:50 schedule, since my office is pretty chill about letting us maneuver schedules a little bit to catch transit), I could leave the house at 7:20 and be through my front door at 5:45.
I think the $75 difference might very well be worth an extra hour every day; assuming 20-ish workdays in a month, I'm paying $3 for that hour. Plus, I'd get a half hour of walking in between commuter rail and my office. I'm thinking that sounds like a sweet deal. (And commuter rail is cleaner and quieter and so much nicer than transit.) Maybe I'd use that extra half hour to work out. ....maybe.
In other news, I finally wandered back to Kingdom Hearts Final Mix; I cleared the Hercules Cup (finally!!) and I'm wandering around collecting extra shinies before I go on to Hollow Bastion. I definitely don't care enough to Platinum the entire thing (repeat after me: we learned our lesson with KH2 there will be no Proud Mode) so I'm not even sure why I'm collecting shiny bits when I probably could just whoosh through to the end, but apparently that's how I roll.
In other news, I went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm not as mad about it as many people seem to be; I enjoyed it, and while I have some quibbles, I felt like it was a reasonably entertaining use of my $10 and three hours. (Also: I am always here for James Spader trolling the shit out of everything.) I mean, I understand why people have a lot of the complaints they do, but I'm not sure if I agree with all of them or even many of them. (Also, not knowing the Civil War plotline, I had already said I was going to cry all the way through Captain America 3 and the more I hear about Civil War the more I realize that's horrifyingly true.)
...speaking of James Spader trolling everything, I really need to start catching up on this year's TV; I kept abreast of Criminal Minds pretty well, but everything else has fallen by the wayside, including The Blacklist. DCP is over really soon though, and that's six to twenty hours a week I'm going to get back when it is :D :D :D of course, there's not much likelihood I'll use that for things other than FF14, but there you go.
In other other news, fiction writing has been remarkably difficult for me the last few weeks; every time I open a file I just sort of sit there staring at it and wondering how words happen. Usually I spend twenty minutes staring at it, ten minutes fucking about on Plurk, ten minutes dragging 200 painful words out of somewhere, and then I close the file and go do something else that I'm enjoying. I thought perhaps I was working on something frustrating but I tried switching it up to something else and that's not helping, and I'm finding myself short of fannish ideas or the will to work on them. I'm not quite sure what to do about that other than stare sadly at the accusing blink of the Scrivener cursor and then abandon it, which is not actually accomplishing anything. Brain, why you do?
Speaking of which, time for my nightly routine of staring at the cursor and then abandoning it. But maybe tonight is the night.
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1113670.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.