I have a cold. It's unpleasant. I brought in a non-alcohol based hand sanitizer and I'm using it pretty much every ten seconds. Arg. It's a coughing cold, I haven't had a coughing cold I think in years. Yucky stuff keeps coming out of my lungs.
What a lazy weekend. I felt so tired. I sat around, or napped, or took a bath. Watched a lot of Monty Python. What silly boys they are.(Were.) Most of them are actually dead now. Well, half.
When the weather was warmer there was a weekly progression in rush-hour traffic on the trains. Monday was the worst day gradually lightening into a calm friday ride. Winter seems to be the opposite, Monday is in fact the lightest day and the rest of the week seems equally overwhelming in the sheer number of people waiting to board a train and already on the train when it gets in. Blah. It really sucks to hussle myself onto a train surrounded by other people trying to hussle themselves on and into a packed compartment to begin with. It does take the soul out of me. You want to see a large number of people being about as self-centered and turned off as they can be? Hang around the subway during morning rush-hour. Especially the 4,5 uptown. I'm not as cynical or angry as I used to be or I might despise all those people I watch day after day manuevering to be the first one on and muscling through everyone else. Instead I seek some virtually impossible balance, to get myself onto a train without being a jerk. Which usually involves paying attention to the people that came before me and ignoring the ones trying to be bully's. By not letting them bully me. We may show aggressive body language but we rarely want to speak aggressively.
I suspect this will be one of those slow days...
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