Kinda like Shaft, so you could say I'm Shaftin'

[cyrano]

No real time for a proper entry (I'm back to an hour, hour and a half commute and it's really tiring) but here are several notes.

1. I really miss dancing. I watched some tango recently and said 'yeah I need to do that again'. Looking at UCB and SJSU social clubs.

2. Driving in new boots is a lot like masturbating while wearing oven mitts. If you masturbate at 65 miles an hour on a crowded freeway. Okay, so maybe it's not a lot like that at all.

3. Being able to fly anywhere I want would be a lot cooler if I had the time and the money to actually do so. But I still wonder how hard it is to get an Australian visa.

4. I think it's time to prune down my Friends list again. I've pruned my social life, that seems the next logical step.

5. Driving up 280 means it takes a lot longer to get to work, but it's a lot prettier. It's also prettier on the way home. And the drivers on it are suicidally insane in a completely different sort of way.

Comments

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

I think 280 is a lot more reliable than 101, in general. I mean in terms of, you can still get where you're going during rush hour, with very little penalty over non-rush, and also in terms of fewer accidents that stop traffic totally.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

Getting an Australian visa is easy; go up to the consulate in SF with your passport and ask nicely. Budget an hour for finding parking and sitting in their waiting room, though.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

280 is much better designed in general, therefore is not prone to the unforseeable crap 101 is. Granted people want to go 90 mph on it because they can. As long as it gets you to where you want to go without adding significant time.

Of course there were 16 things I wanted to talk to you about that I remembered later. Like Norah Jones. What do you think? Why on earth does she sound like Billie Holliday?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

When I come to LA for training stuff, you can ask me lots of questions. Just hanging out and being quiet was nice too.
And I'm not enamored of Norah Jones, as many of my friends seem to be, but I like her. She probably sounds like Billie Holiday deliberately--either because she wants to sound like Lady Day or because it's a good and pleasing sound.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Which begs the question: Where are you going for training? A couple of days ago it was SLC. I get the distinct impression you are trying to string people (including moi) along. Which just made me think of another question to ask you, but since you are obviously feeling snipish I won't. :-)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Am I obviously snipish? However--today I discovered that my first week (of three) of remote location training will be in early October (probably the sixth) in Salt Lake City. Hollis says he plans to have the next two one-week sessions in the very City of Angels itself.
As soon as I have information (or at least within a couple of days) I'm quite likely to relay it here.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

That sounds like the worst of all possible solutions. I hope the weeks are close to consecutive and not spread out until New Year's.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I hope so too. Furry little paws crossed.
From what he's said, I have no idea how long it'll take to get to the second week, but the third should follow hard upon. One week in LA, one week at work, then one week in LA.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

280 is much, much, much better. Though it took a little longer when we needed to go to San Mateo every day (forver ago), I always took it. Less traffic, prettier, fewer big trucks, and you get to see cows, horses, and sometimes things like storks and deer and rabbits.

My drive to work is now 7-8 minutes on mostly small roads, but sometimes I drive up 280 just to see all the grass and hills. Those "scenic viewpoint" turnoffs are really worth it, too.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

By the way, I heard from Erica Aks yesterday (for the first time since we left). She just had a baby girl. Jordan Leigh. She got laid off the day after learning she was pregnant. How's that for sucky timing?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oh hey hi.
AltaVista has never been known for their keen sense of timing. (:

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I stopped on one of those scenic viewpoints to, well, view the sunset, while I was there.

So, yeah, 280 is A Good Place.

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

280 is nice, just longer (depending on where you're going and coming from) - the drivers just drive FAST on 280. :) As opposed to cutting each other off and not using signals like giantic syphlitic assmonkeys trying to masturbate when one hand's been amputated and the other one is holding a banana.

Hm. I've perhaps been commuting on 101 too long.