Luke Grown Up

I was so irritated with the bus system here yesterday that the residual irritation has passed over to today, leaving me mildly irritated.

Let me start by saying that I thought the weekend was going to be a good one. On Friday night I beat Final Fantasy VII after owning it for ten years.  And I was very disappointed. I spent at least 20 hours leveling up my characters so that they would have a chance in hell of beating Sephiroth.  I got all the Master Materia, beat the WEAPONs, bred a Gold Chocobo, and got all the special materia in the caves.  I went into the fight thinking I was going to die immediately. Nope.  After the first boss, I was required to put all 8 of my characters into 3 parties, so I spent a good 20 minutes evening them out so that I wouldn’t have to do it all again.  Turns out I didn’t even have to switch from the first party once. I beat Sephiroth in less than 10 minutes. With regular attacks.  What a fuckin’ let-down.  I didn’t even get to see his ridiculous summon which apparently you can make and eat a sandwich during and he still won’t be done casting it.  As he died, no words from him. No closure between him and Cloud. Then a cool-looking cinematic, then the credits. I was a little upset about it.

I should have let that let-down gauge the weekend, because yesterday was a HUGE ball bust.  I had orientation at 8, so I awoke at 6, left here to walk to the bus stop at 6:55 (the stop is on campus and there was no bus running from my apartment to campus).  Got there around  7:25, and the bus should be arriving at 7:55.  I look at the schedule and see that it’s not going to go to the mall where I work until 8:05.  Bus comes late, I get there 25 minutes late.  I can’t get into the building. Finally, I do.  I’m there for 2 hours. 2 HOURS. I was supposed to be there for 4.  So I missed the next bus by 5 minutes. Wait there for almost an hour and see a bus that says it’s going to a nearby town via my college. So I get on and put my money in. I am suspicious, so I ask the driver if it’s going to campus first. She says the nearby town is first. So we drive there and I think we’re heading back but she says we have to wait until 12:30.  That’s 45 minutes away. So I’m sitting on the bus, alone, for 45 minutes, with nothing to do.

On the way back, two filthy hippies get on and sit across from me, stinking of BO and eating bananas. I want to vomit.  Three sketchy older guys come on, 2 with mustaches, and sit down. One of them throws his stuff on a seat and two cigarettes, one of them lit and put out, on the seat next to it. Another one of the guys has a pouch of rolling tobacco in his breast pocket, sticking out the top like a 2-dollar handkerchief. The smell of burnt tobacco is making me more sick.  The male hippie starts drumming on the side of his djembe. I want to shoot myself.  I have a folder of stuff from my orientation on the seat next to me, and some lady gets on and doesn’t fucking look where’s she’s sitting and sits in the seat. I grab the folder right before her ass touches it.

Finally, I get back to campus and have to wait for ANOTHER bus to take me home. And it’s 15 minutes late.  By the time I get home I’ve been out for 7 hours, only 2 of which were serving a purpose.  Now I am working on getting a used car because I can’t deal with this shit all the time. It’s bogus. The buses are just not dependable at all, considering they’re always late and their drivers are idiots.  Then I was upset all night because I miss Sara so much.  I can’t stand to be without her, and I’ve never felt this way about someone before.  She really is the yin to my yang.

I had good pasta last night.

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