Bonnie's Journal

My weekend was really fun. Because Monday was MLK Day, Brian had a 3-day weekend, so I stayed at his place through Monday.

On Saturday, we went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for lunch (I had never been there before). Really tasty. And then it was off to Fairway to spend my gift card that my brother and his girlfriend gave me for my birthday back in April. I attacked their olive bar and filled up a container with garlic stuffed, onion stuffed, and almond stuffed olives. :) Good stuff.

Sunday, Brian and I parted ways after having breakfast. He had to take his folks to the airport and I was heading into the city for the day. Got together with karistan again. We have spent a day each weekend together since kradical's NYE party. So, we met at the Borders upstairs from Penn Station and then walked over to The Morgan Library and Museum. Interesting fun fact: kradical's father works there. they have an interesting collection of stuff. Some things that caught my eye: Original manuscript of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in D major, and original manuscript of JS Bach's Cantata 112 Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt. I'm such a music dork.

After The Morgan, we had lunch at BonChon Chicken which was really tasty. We wandered around a bit after that before heading to the movie theater to see The Social Network which turned out to be a very well done movie. We both liked it :) After the movie we headed to Tick Tock Diner across from Penn Station for dinner, which was also very tasty. We didn't want the day to end because we enjoy each other's company, but I was running out of train options, so it had to. We parted ways when karistan's train arrived.

When I got on my train, I was met by this very flamboyant man who made the trip between Penn and Jamaica quite entertaining. Brian picked me up from Ronk.

Monday was a day of lounging. Brian and I didn't leave the house, but we kept ourselves occupied. A good lazy day :)

Excellent weekend.

~*::Meow::*~

Yesterday was the last Friday I'd be heading to Queens College for the semester (Thank goodness). I had to take my BIO final (booooo). As per my typical Friday mornings, I headed to Ronkonkoma to take the train in, because sometimes you just want to travel with someone. I waved to the #crankys that usually take the 719 (that I wish I could take but can't because it doesn't stop at Jamaica) and continued to wait on the platform. As I was waiting for the 732, I decided to send CSDave a text to see what train he was taking (the 740) and decided that for my last Friday, I will travel with Dave. So, I trekked to the opposite end of the platform to wait. Travelling with Dave is always entertaining and filled with many webcomics. And wi-fi... mmmm delicious wi-fi; something they really should offer on the trains.

( AM Commute continued )

When I got to campus, I headed straight for the Library. After searching for what seemd for forever, I found a table that had an outlet near it so I could plug in my laptop and look over my notes (For those not in the know, I type the lectures because a) I wouldn't be able to keep up with them if I was handwriting the notes and b) My left thumb has something wrong with it so any time I spend writing really really hurts after a short while). Unfortunately, my choice of spot to study was not optimal.( Studying woes )

I have no idea how I did on my final because the questions were really confusing and repetitively confusing at that! I'm really hoping that I passed this one (I have yet to pass a test in this class in which the class average is a 40 and I'm on the other side of that). Thankfully, lab counts for 40% of my grade and I worked my ass off to fill in that lab notebook (thumb issue be damned)! After the exam, I walked my lab notebook over to my Lab professor's office. Further proof that my lab instructor is awesome: no points taken off because he understands my plight, he was listening to "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty, and he made a Logan's Run reference, to which he knew I'd get and then run with it. I will miss him. He kept me sane when I wanted to kill my nincompoop lab partners.

At this point, there was no way I was making the 303, not that I really wanted to because I hate Suffolk Transit with a passion (even moreso than I hate the MTA and that takes talent!) so I opted to take the 344 so I could get a ride home from the train station. There was an extra added benefit to taking the 344: Getting to see my old LIRR crew. I hadn't taken the 344 in about TWO YEARS!! A lot can happen over the span of two years, and I didn't even know if any of them would still be around. Still, I held out hope and sure enough...( PM commute continued )

When I got to Patchogue, I walked to the library because it was really cold and I had 40 mins to wait before my mom would get there to pick me up (this was previously arranged). I took the opportunity to renew my library card and browse the shelves of lacking proportions. I didn't find anything of interest, but that's ok. Now I can go to other libraries again and take out books :)

When I got home, Dan (The Bean) called me. We hadn't talked to each other in quite some time. He updated me on life in Buffalo. He'll be in the area for all of 3 days for Christmas. I'm hoping to steal him for a few hours because I haven't seen him in FIVE YEARS :( That's a really long time to be without your best friend. So, we shall see. I'm really hoping. At least we have our Christmas Eve and New Years Eve traditions to look forward to.

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I have been watching Good Morning America every day for the last 2 weeks hoping to catch the segment with Juju Chang about Albert Rizzi, the man I met on the LIRR who is blind and is CEO of http://www.myblindspot.com

I believe the segment is going to be on GMA tomorrow morning. Robin Roberts announced what was going to be on tomorrow really quickly and she mentioned a man with a dog. So, if you wanted to catch the segment of Albert Rizzi, this might very well be it! Set your DVRs!!

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Oh fucking LOL!! Thank you to gamoid for posting this. ::snort::

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/016344.html

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Or "What Happened on my Evening Commute Yesterday"

On Mondays, I typically have class till around 4pm. I grab a bus and get to Jamaica Station around the time that the 4:49pm Express to Montauk arrives. Unfortunately, yesterday, I missed that train by about 30 seconds. So, I hopped on the 5:03pm train to Patchogue (this one is a local with added stops at Mineola and Hicksville).

Everything was going smoothly until we reached approximately Amityville. We come to a dead stop. WTF?! The time at this point is 5:40pm. At this time the sun is still glaring my way and the Engineer of the train gets on the loudspeaker telling us that they will tell us what's going on when they find out. He proceeds to say this every 5 or so minutes for a good 45 mins of sitting in the same spot. Meanwhile, I'm calling my mom to let her know what's going on and talking to Brian in between and still we are sitting. I watched the sun set (one of the many benefits of sitting in the train facing backwards).

Finally, they tell us that we are going to be moving back to Hicksville to switch tracks due to the fact that the switch broke at Babylon. So, we finally move from the spot at 6:55pm. When we got to Hicksville at 7:30, I caught the 7:02 to Ronkonkoma, which was running 27mins late due to a completely unrelated switch problem west of Jamaica. I got to Ronkonkoma at 8:20 and got home at 8:40. It took me 4 and a half hours to get from Queens College to Home. -_-

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Because February doesn't start until Thursday, I have to pay $69.25 to commute to/from school Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Mother fucker -_-

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