Just bite your tongue

I've been working too hard so I haven't been here.

Something exciting happened today, which is my bus got hit by a car on the way to work. I was in a subway that ran over somebody once, but I've never been in a bus accident.

It was not a great way to start the day as it was already over 80 outside, and there I was all happy and air conditioned and vegging out listening to something off of "Soft Sounds for Gentle People" when I hear some brakes screeching and see this car careening around a corner at about 50 mph into the oncoming lane (ours) heading right toward me.

I of course did what anyone else would do, which is sit there and stare in anticipation of What Was About to Happen.

The car plowed into the bus approximately at the seat behind me, ricocheted into the SUV next to us and then ran head-first into the bus behind us.

We were all stopped at a light, so it was about the best possible situation for us all to be in, I suppose.

I have always been curious about what would happen to a metro bus in a city traffic accident and let me tell you something, the bus kind of wobbled a little bit and that was it. No one got hurt. The most painful thing was having to walk to another stop and wait for another bus in the heat. And me downwind of the patchoulli-drenched Goth dude who wears the Marlboro fanny-pack. (He seems like a nice enough guy though.)

I think the only person who got hurt was the woman driving the crazy car, but she managed to make it out of the car and over to the sidewalk. Between my bus and the SUV, I guess we absorbed a lot of her velocity or whatever (yay high school physics is good for something) because if she had gone straight into that last bus, things probably would have turned out a little differently.

The whole thing had me feeling pretty good, actually, because we totally got plowed and the bus hardly budged. Suddenly the experience of riding a bus seemed a lot safer, and I only ended up about 15 minutes late to work. Bless you, mass transit.

And to think that ended up being the highlight of my day. Yes, the rest of the day sucked that much. Good times.

I think there was some kind of IFC movie trivia challenge around here somewhere tonight but I was too deflated to go. Also, eew, IFC movie trivia, like on that one show. You know the one, the one with those guys. You know. Eew. That would have been like way too few degrees of skeevation.

I think I need to get a job being the Thirsty Traveler.

But hey you know something?

YOU KNOW SOMETHING?!

There actually are real good times happening and not sarcastic good times!

Someone awesome is coming to Minneapolis and we are so excited!!!

Look who else awesome is coming to Minneapolis at the same time. Can you believe this?! THIS MEANS SOMETHING

I've done a zillion new things at Staraoke but I haven't listed them because I've been BUSY. I did "I Don't Want Your Love" by Duran Duran. Including the RAP. Stuff like that. "Baker Street." "Eminence Front." Hot business.

Someone read my mind and made an Oblique Strategies Widget. I wish it was a little more glossed up in that Dashboard way but hmm, it'll do.

Aren't Weezer too old for this crap? This is "Walk Like an Egyptian II." And how much makeup did they slap on that one guy, I mean seriously. Gross.

The Spurs and Tim Duncan and the NBA are boring, but The Year in Brad Miller is most certainly not. #4 even makes me cry a little.

I'm scattered, but I'll live.

Posted by Kim at June 24, 2005 02:24 AM | Etc. | Miller Time