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?

[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.

[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.