monday night
Jul. 3rd, 2006 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyI had several things flutter through my mind today that I thought I should post about, but then I came home and told M all of it and then I lost interest. I suppose that means that I had a pretty boring day. Work was unexciting, but made more bearable by the fact that it was preceded by a day off. I like those. As I'm sure I've mentioned, if I even needed to. I've battled a headache all day, and was pretty proud of myself for coming home and cleaning instead of lying in a dark room, whimpering quietly to myself.. and then it got better! But it came back, and it brought its friends, the nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, so I'm thinking that I'll go visit one of MY friends, Bed, here pretty shortly.
First day of cooking from meal plan? Eh. No couscous. Too little cheese. Overcooked in part due to not paying attention. Second day will fail unless we go grocery shopping tomorrow, which I'm no longer seeing happen. But at least I did get the crucial errands done today (picking up medicine, stopping at the bank, etc.)
Speaking of the bank, here is my pet peeve. There are about six lanes at the drive-through of the bank. The two on the far right are labeled for Trucks and Vans. The screens and do-hickeys (technical term for the jars that get swished inside) are taller on those aisles. The first time I drove through, I went through one of those aisles before I noticed it, and it was really too tall for me in a car. So, why is it that I pulled into the bank today and had to wait in line for one of the four car lanes behind a SUV? And to my left, a big black truck and to my right, another SUV? And no one at all were in the truck aisles! WTF?
Also regarding things people do on the same stretch of road where my bank is (which is located between my job and my house)... it's a two lane road, 55 MPH. At a certain point, the road becomes one-lane, after a good distance of warning signs and arrows indicating that everyone should merge left. Rational people will merge left at their earliest convenience, right? You know, when it's safe to switch lanes, you would switch lanes? Because a LOT of people? They just keep driving until they reach the V where it becomes one lane, and casually follow it into the left lane, regardless of where the other vehicles are. Those other vehicles are watching (at least every time I've been there) and adjust their speed so as not to be hit by the other driver because.. it may be selfish and lazy of the other driver but you still don't want to wreck. It drives me crazy. Of course I will let people do it because the other choice is to.. possibly get hit, but I just want to take this opportunity to tell all of those people who do this: I hate you.
(And now, friend at work who drives that stretch of road every day will come up to me on Wednesday and say, "I do that all the time." And I will blush, and then I will curse to myself about how I really must learn to watch what I say here, and then I will probably not remember next time.)
First day of cooking from meal plan? Eh. No couscous. Too little cheese. Overcooked in part due to not paying attention. Second day will fail unless we go grocery shopping tomorrow, which I'm no longer seeing happen. But at least I did get the crucial errands done today (picking up medicine, stopping at the bank, etc.)
Speaking of the bank, here is my pet peeve. There are about six lanes at the drive-through of the bank. The two on the far right are labeled for Trucks and Vans. The screens and do-hickeys (technical term for the jars that get swished inside) are taller on those aisles. The first time I drove through, I went through one of those aisles before I noticed it, and it was really too tall for me in a car. So, why is it that I pulled into the bank today and had to wait in line for one of the four car lanes behind a SUV? And to my left, a big black truck and to my right, another SUV? And no one at all were in the truck aisles! WTF?
Also regarding things people do on the same stretch of road where my bank is (which is located between my job and my house)... it's a two lane road, 55 MPH. At a certain point, the road becomes one-lane, after a good distance of warning signs and arrows indicating that everyone should merge left. Rational people will merge left at their earliest convenience, right? You know, when it's safe to switch lanes, you would switch lanes? Because a LOT of people? They just keep driving until they reach the V where it becomes one lane, and casually follow it into the left lane, regardless of where the other vehicles are. Those other vehicles are watching (at least every time I've been there) and adjust their speed so as not to be hit by the other driver because.. it may be selfish and lazy of the other driver but you still don't want to wreck. It drives me crazy. Of course I will let people do it because the other choice is to.. possibly get hit, but I just want to take this opportunity to tell all of those people who do this: I hate you.
(And now, friend at work who drives that stretch of road every day will come up to me on Wednesday and say, "I do that all the time." And I will blush, and then I will curse to myself about how I really must learn to watch what I say here, and then I will probably not remember next time.)
