As a general FYI

[annathepiper]

It takes about an hour and forty minutes to walk from just north of downtown Bothell to MurkNorth.

Why do I know this? Because the 5:22 run of the 245, which was supposed to pick me up at 156th and 40th right by my building at Borg, was a good thirteen minutes late and didn't actually get to the bus stop until more like 5:35. I don't know what the hell was going on with that; I happened to see two, count 'em, two fire trucks heading the opposite way on 156th, so I suspect that some form of major accident/disaster must have happened further down the way that was making traffic hellish, or something.

Anyway, this caused me to not reach the Houghton Park and Ride in Kirkland until roughly 6pm, at which time I discovered that the 342, my connecting bus which runs up 405, through Bothell, and then right down through Kenmore, makes its last stop there at 5:45. DOH!

So I went "Well NOW WHAT?" and wound up catching the next bus that showed up, riding that around to Bothell, and then walking home from there. I toyed with the idea of calling kathrynt, llachglin, or spazzkat and saying "HEY! Who wants to give me a ride home?" but then decided that a) I liked the idea of a walk down Burke-Gilman, and b) I wanted to see how long it would take me to get home. Now I know.

And boy, my feet hurt.

Comments

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

nocturnal critters are best turning to day critters by doing the evil - stay up over 24 hours and you'll sleep THEN routine!
s'only way i can do it!
i'm one HELL of a bitch in the process tho... i HATE daylight b/c i'm so darn light sensitive...

bb

[annathepiper]

I don't have the light sensitivity problem, thankfully, but I do have a problem staying up that long. ;) I've done it, but only by the skin of my teeth! (Dara and I generally stay up all night to observe Longest Night in December, so that'll have me conscious for 24+ hours at a stretch. But afterwards, oh the zzzzzzz....)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

can you do it w/ a tiny (45 minutes or less) nap? or are you one of those folks that gets nasty bitchy fugly w/o sleep? i know *I* am! :)

[annathepiper]

I don't get bitchy when I'm short on sleep... I mostly get incoherent and loopy. :) And I think that if I tried to take a teeny nap, that would only make matters worse--one of those scenarios where a tiny bit of sleep is almost worse than no sleep at all, because of the body going 'OH THANK GOD LET ME REST what?! NO I DON'T WANT TO GET BACK UP!' Heh. :)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, the "KILL ME NOW BITCH AND I MEAN YOU DAMNIT" moment when you realize you have to get up or you are completely borked for the next week, yeah, been there! hubby usually awakens THAT beast w/ a 24oz coffee already in his hands, doctored the way i like it! otherwise the victim, err, person waking me up might NOT survive to take anothr breath!

yeah, i'm familiar w/ that routine... your body is in HEAVEN thinking "ok i survived" and then you have the balls (or other body parts as appropriate) to wake me????????? yeah...

btw - i do loopy AFTER i do klingon bitch in heat! :) so by the time i've gotten to loopy, most potential witnesses are corpses!

[annathepiper]

General note to self: do not get between Brightbeak and her coffee. ;)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

hehe...ok, so i'm an addict :) :)
and i'm SO not going to 12-step this one... it's kinda like breathing, VITAL to my life! :) and sanity! (quiet there peanut gallery!)

[annathepiper]

Heh! I'm kind of surprised that I've never gotten into coffee, and I'm living in the Coffee Capital of the Pacific Northwest. But it's true. The few times I've tried anything with coffee in it, I've gotten way more twitchy from the caffeine than I ever have from soda. But I do like the smell of it. :)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

where coffee makes you jittery, it CALMS my jitters, but then again i am weird so hey :)
and the smell of good coffee, soothes the savage beast w/in :)

[annathepiper]

Heh! Very appropriate icon. ;) And I guess you must just have a bigger caffeine tolerance than I do--and that's saying something after I've been in the habit of chugging back half a dozen cans of soda a day in stints of 8-9 hours of work at Microsoft!

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

i have a chemical dependence as well as a psychological one on caffiene...
we did a detox from caffiene a couple years ago, won't do THAT again... even after 6 weeks, it was gtting worse & worse & worse.. headache became a constant, my IQ plummetted to a near-negative place (and from 3 digits that's a drop), i coudln't think enough to read (and i'm a chronic reader) couldn't concentrate long enough to remember ANYTHING, fell asleep in some awkward places (bathroom, on potty w/ door locked, oooops), and well, overall was as miserable as hell... couldn't even count to 10 w/o thinking about it!
had a NICE cuppa and sat down, and within a couple hours i was fine and able to do taxes...
hubby said even my eyes cleared up
now if that had been 10days to 3weeks, i'd have thought it was just withdrawl like a drug, but we were talking 43days. that's entirely too long for it to be just withdrawl.. even my naturopath was concerned at that point, and said to get back on the coffee, b/c it was obvious that it played an important role in maintaining my ability to live!
coffee is MY legal drug of choice :)

[annathepiper]

Damn, that's impressive! Interesting that you actually seem to need the caffeine. :) I've gone off the soda for a few weeks straight--I kind of had to, when I was recovering with the broken arm. And I didn't have anything like the effects you describe.

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

actually, frigthening is the word hubby & i went for! oy!
i can do w/o carbonated beverages (i like them, but they're not a necessity) but my coffee? gotta!
oh well, i'm bass ackwards & not quite up to mfr specs, so this should ahve been expected :)

[annathepiper]

Hee!