I left for my appointment at 9:45 am. I just now got home. My appointment lasts about 15 minutes. How could this turn into a 4 hour expedition, you ask? The answer is simple: crummy buses. The bus system here is... wanting.
We're supposed to tap on and tap off for connecting buses, but my connections are never any earlier than half an hour in between, so that's pointless.
I also discovered that other school bus passes are $20 per year. My school charges $120. The bus driver I was speaking with (to discover the point of tapping off) warned me that I should not believe it when I am told that my inflated price has nothing to do with subsidizing the free parking on campus.
Also, my school is ending student passes as of September. On the "plus side", the transit authority offers student passes direct from the authority and not through any school. But those'll cost me over $600 a year. I live nearly a mile and a half from campus (13 blocks = 1.3 miles, and that's just where campus starts, not even where I need to be), and come winter, I can't walk that. I don't have a bike (and Steven's needs fixing), so that's not a solution, either. Well, it wouldn't be in winter anyway.
After all this whining, I conclude with: I'm gonna start getting used to walking it now while the weather is nice (and it IS nice! Over 50 degrees and cloudy with a light breeze... Mmhmm!), and enjoy the faulty bus system while I still have access to it.
Now I'm going to take a bath and relax and wish I could do that outside because it's so deliciously beautiful out there. But that would be unpleasant for my many, many neighbors.
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