Travel Dilemma
I am trying to decide if I should move my car to go to work tomorrow.
Technically, I don’t need to drive to work- I can take the train. It is such a pain in the butt to get to the train station in this snow. They never plow or shovel very well and I will probably be very grumpy by the time I get to work tomorrow.
Or I could just drive and then deal with the parking situation when I get home. It could be okay because I get home fairly early or it could be a complete nightmare. Casey and I have already shoveled out one space and I don’t think we could deal with doing it again. Someone will definitely steal our nice clean space while I am at work.
Wah.
I also had plans with my friend Carolynn to go to her house and knit tomorrow after work. (yaay!) I know that I will not find a space if I take the car and go there too. Maybe I will take the car to work and then take a bus to Carolynn’s?
Sorry this post is whiney and obnoxious. I have a bit of the Sunday blues since I didn’t have work today. I also have to go to Indianapolis this weekend for work and Casey and I don’t get to spend our 7 year anniversary weekend together. (It is actually on Monday though, I just realized… so that isn’t too bad.)
I also heard from someone (forgive me, whoever you are… I just read over 50 blog posts to catch up!) that tomorrow is the most depressing day of the year. Seems just about right.
Enough! I will leave you alone now. A more cheerful girl will greet you tomorrow, promise. 
January 25th, 2005 at 12:07 am
Actually you already made it through the most depressing day of the year! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6847012/)
I love you but go to sleep, you sound like tired-Jess. Call me though, I haven’t talked to you in a while.
January 25th, 2005 at 12:16 am
oh GOD!! TAKE THE TRAIN!! Guard that space with your LIFE! Seriously! Move the car only if you HAVE to!!!
and feel better girlie
Next Monday will be here before ya know it 
January 25th, 2005 at 2:05 am
Your brother is right. The worst day of the year was the 24th, my poor mom’s birthday!! At least things should be looking up from here!
January 25th, 2005 at 9:41 am
ok so here in Chicago, what we do is move our car out of the space, right? then we take whatever junk we can find and put it in the space to save it. some people get fancy and use actual traffic cones, but i like the folks that use a couple folding chairs spread apart with a broom resting on them. basically just whatever you can find. we even saw a guy put his kids toy car in the space. thats about the most logical i spose. its a car. kinda. that big plastic bubble looking car. yeah that one. anyway… you could just take the train i spose too. have a good day!
January 25th, 2005 at 10:19 am
my friend that lives in Boston lucked up and got a garage parking spot at her t-stop. otherwise she would be in the same position as you!
January 25th, 2005 at 11:45 am
Bummer! I would vote for keeping the parking space (they are like gold, esp. when you and your beloved have paid in a lot of backbreaking shoveling!) and making a game of trekking through the unshoveled paths to the train. I do understand your ire…I hope you feel better soon (a good, toasty nap is always a good thing).
p.s., I totally owe you a return email and apologize for the long ass wait…I’ve been MIA from email for a few weeks because of the winter glums!
January 25th, 2005 at 11:48 am
Oh Lordy, I’ve just been catching up on your blog! Happy Birthday to Loody! And St. Lucia’s Woo–hoo! (with a capital FAN-CY).
I thought about ya’ll when I saw the blizzard on tv yesterday. I was hoping you would have some time off from work. But I suppose those lunatics up there who are in charge and all, can’t see an opportunity for days off if it snows down on their heads. Gaw! How can they expect you to go anywhere? You have to be like Shackleton, that antarctic explorer guy, just to get to the liquor store (the only place worth braving a blizzard for) let alone work!
PS TAKE THE TRAIN!
January 25th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
Um, p.s.: just wanted to corroborate with Cat’s Chicago tales. See here: http://www.rachelleb.com/002150.html
Chairs in parking spots does make me chuckle. I hope it makes you too!