Goodness me, it’s been a while. Before inquiring on how you’ve all been, let me stop and change the subject.
School started yesterday, which is a boring fact, other than I’ll most likely be done with the whole experience of getting an education by the end of the year. We can only hope.
For this one course we are to keep a log of a recurring journey – time, day, how long it took, etc. I added another column for ‘roadrage’ as well, cos I feel that in my case it would be extremely valuable data. Yesterday I scored a 3, but that was only for the way back. For the way to school I had no timer set, hence the data is screwed.
By the way, for health purposes, they say it’s better to ‘let it out’ when you’re angry and stuff. Bottling it up and ranting at random strangers on the street in Dutch worked just fine for me, but maybe they have a point.
Back onto the bus. What a joy, people procreating. In this day and age, still, folks choose to surround themselves with a brood 7 – 8 heads large. Remarkable, especially if one is to load it all in the bus. Mother-hen lost track of one of her spawn, heavily gesticulating to a running shadow outside of the bus. Spawn made it in on time, and the the adventure could commence at once. Two bits of spawn had resurfaced on the seats behind me. Mother-hen had to keep an eye on the pram in the corridor, thus ensuring a lively exchange.
Now, my hat of choice has a number of dangling pom-poms -cos that’s how I bought it ages ago at a Beijing subway station. It had recently been restored as it had started to unravel, so you can understand me feeling somewhat protective of my muts. Seeing it being chastised on public transport is something I do not enjoy. I would have turned back to have an encounter, except that I didn’t. The little ones had the ride of their lives and seemed particularly ultrasonic that evening. Ensuring mother would not feel left out, one of the imps had wedged themselves between the seats and was screeching merrily.
Of course, this is what you get on public transport. The Public. If I had a bit more balls on me I would have taken the damn bike all the way to Pasila but winter has kicked in properly at once, and the drive to and from the bus was already pushing it.
I should probably put an end to this but I don’t know how, also I’m tired and feeling particularly fired up.