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This is my last commute of 2011! My, how fast 85 days goes by. I'm really grateful for starting this blog...it was supposed to help jump-start my creativity and help me start writing in other ways and I believe that it has. Good times. So many other books and blogs to be written in the world...just need to grab a pen and some paper and get it out of my brain. This is actually what I was thinking about on my commute this morning. The reality of the new year is going to be hard when I have to sit in a lot of traffic again. Tis life, I think. I wish everyone out there Happy Holidays (bonus that Hanukkah, Christmas, the Winter Solstice, and Kwanzaa all overlap this year) and joy, meaning. purpose, and love in the New Year...
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Ha ha ha...It's the 19th and I left my house in the 19th minute. I'm so amazing! :> Nothing exciting or even interesting to report. There was a big accident on the outer loop and all of us inner loop people just kept on driving. I love that. Go us!
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The College closed last night, so it's Stress-Free Staff Day on campus...meaning that I got to work-out this morning at a "normal" hour, do some errands, and come to campus a bit later than usual. Everything was going smoothly until I hit Target and learned of some changes to my prescription. Luckily, the person at the register was super nice: willing to talk with me and we had talked before...gave me a discount and everything. Good times had by all :>
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I'm telling you...this time of year is having very similar qualities to commutes in the summer. I am loving it...every moment of it...love coming off me to all the people who've decided not to go to work! I love ya'll. Thank you.
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Apparently everyone is still taking time off this week and I am loving it!! The roads are open, we all get to drive the speed limit (or higher), and people are being smart...at least on my part of the commute. Love it. My friend (first) and Co-worker (second) bought me a bacon, egg, and cheese on egg bagel for breakfast today. It was the best. Gotta love exam week.
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This has to be one of the best Tuesday commutes ever! I cannot believe it. I mean, really. It's Tuesday! I stopped one time in the upper northwest corner and then just drove and drove and drove. Perhaps it was because I didn't have my early meeting today or because the sun was out, or I found the sweet spot of timing leaving my house. Who knows? I love that sweet spot.
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Had the day off work, so went up for Bikram and enjoyed a delightful spa-day with a friend and colleague on behalf of our orientation staff! Yay for great students!
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It's Monday of exam week and it sure felt like it. The traffic wasn't so bad, except right when I entered the beltway and the rest of the drive was pleasant. I was a bit tired today and forgot that I would have to warm-up my car...hence the little bit of lateness.
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The good news today is that I got in the car just as the traffic report was being done and I learned that I needed to change my route right from the start today. Yay for good timing. Not so bad once I figured that out and it is nice to do things differently sometimes. I enjoyed the sun being out and the way people drove today. Let's hope it's a sign for a good day.
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Sometimes leaving the house a bit late because it's raining and you think traffic will be better is a good idea...sometimes, it isn't. Like today. It wasn't better. Also, I realized about halfway through my commute that the hypnotist Paul Ramsey (who performs during the orientation program I run) was correct about being able to self-hypnotize while driving...except that I did it while I was in bumper-to-bumper. Probably not the best idea. I missed all the traffic updates and barely heard the songs this morning...my mind was elsewhere...
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Despite the rain and therefore, longer commute than usual...traffic wasn't so bad. The music on the radio was nice and people weren't being obnoxious. Gotta love that for a Tuesday.
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Sometimes, after a delightfully low-key weekend, I feel much more ready for the work week than others...today, I woke up while it was still dark outside and got to enjoy about an hour and a half of snoozing in bed. Delightful. I'm sure I'll be exhausted tonight because of it. Oh well. Traffic was surprisingly light today. People were actually driving nicely. One car, however, thought it would take advantage of the light traffic and drive up on everyone's bumper. Why do cars do that sometimes?
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Traffic wasn't so bad today...there were a couple accidents that caused people to pause and wait...most of the beltway was smooth sailing. Good news for a Friday.
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Happy December! Remember that one time when I said that traffic isn't so bad when I don't have a meeting I have to go to? Yep, well, today...I had an 8:30 with a student and was already running late because at 4:45 a.m. my cat decides to hairball on my bed, then somewhere else in the house...so I was cleaning that up and trying to find the other location and realized that I needed to go back to sleep. Needless to say, I was running late this morning.
Fast forward about 12 minutes and on the beltway, traffic stops almost 2 minutes up the road and I realize that I'm going nowhere very slow and will miss my meeting. Good times. One major accident caused about 3 extra accidents along the road...yep, it's one of those mornings. Things turned out okay at work though...my meeting still happened with the student because she skipped class and the other meeting I had with a colleague got canceled because she was running late too. Sometimes things work out for the best.
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It wasn't such a bad commute today...I seemed to have missed all the accidents this morning and people were actually driving a more normal speed today as well...not so many hard stops and slow starts. Nice. Happy Last Day of November 2011!
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Had to get gas and eat my cereal in the car today because I didn't read an email letting me know that my 9 a.m. meeting was changed to later...traffic was a pain, however, not too bad. Nothing too exciting happened today. I thought the skies were going to open and rain down....they did not. The mouse in my office ate all the peanut butter off the traps that were set...
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So...it's hard to go back to work after almost a week away...it was so nice to be gone. I saw a lot of friends and spent good time with the fam...nice Thanksgiving holiday. There was an accident today that blocked the inner and outer loops. Yikes! I thought it was going to be easy going...not today. Arrived at 9:12 a.m.
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This is my last official blog posting before the Thanksgiving holiday when I commute the farthest, via airplane, back to OH. Good times. It was a lovely morning. Sunny at my house and foggy, gross rainy when I got to work. Maryland is so strange sometimes. Grateful for the ability to drive and have a working vehicle still. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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It's sunny and blue skies today! I think that helped everyone drive more quickly and smoothly...at least that's what I'm going to believe. The holidays are coming and people are going to be leaving town soon...including me. So, my commutes won't be as adventurous...maybe my holiday travels will. Whole wheat english muffin with country crock on one side and cruncy peanut butter on the other...yum!
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My water meter has been successfully converted and I learned something new about how I get charged for water usage. What a great day.
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Early morning meeting means having to leave early, which means my commute seems a bit normal. Fascinating. Been in meetings ALL day, so that's why I'm posting at almost 4 p.m.
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My very early Tuesday morning was cancelled today, so I took my time leaving the house and hit a ridiculous amount of traffic due to a really bad accident on the outer loop near 795, which caused all of the inner loop to look at it. Once we got passed the accident, literally, the road was mine. Also, it wasn't so bad sitting there because I knew that I wasn't going to be late for anything. My level of calmness was perfect. I sort of wish every morning was like that.
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Two disable vehicles were on the beltway today...right when I start my trip. I had to bail again, hoping that my other route wasn't blocked and I was quite lucky. A twenty-minute detour allowed me to make it to work before 9 a.m. today...amazing, really. Since it's getting a bit colder, although strangely not this morning, I decided to eat oatmeal this morning. It's always a nice warm treat on the commute.
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I actually didn't leave my neighborhood until 8:12 because there was road work being done on all the streets that let me out of my neighborhood. It let me eat part of my breakfast while I waited, which was nice.
On another note, it's a federal holiday and that means my commute is AWESOME! I love being on the road when others aren't...driving a reasonable speed and getting to work in a normal time amount that I think the majority of the country can understand. So nice. Put those math skills to use and be really happy for me people.
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Since I was doing Bikram this morning instead of Friday and because traffic has been a little stupid this week, I decided to leave at a decent hour and it really only took the 45 minutes it should have taken. Lovely. My bagel breakfast sandwich was also really good this morning and I loved the songs on the radio. It's a good day.
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So this morning there was a disabled vehicle near Wilkins Ave., so I quickly left the beltway and exited onto 95 south (this was before I knew what all the problems were) and took my chances with 70. It was glorious. I'm not sure if it saved me that much more time or not, however, it sure felt like it. The morning show was talking about everyone's good news and I felt like the traffic was flowing well (after the quick change in commute plans). Also, my everything bagel was delicious this morning.
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