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Nov. 19th, 2015 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreWhat I have done so far today:
- Got up early because I was scheduled to go to a meeting at a branch that is about a forty-five minute drive from my house
- Left the house at 8 o'clock for a meeting scheduled from 9 to 11
- Got stuck in traffic at about 8:30 because of an accident somewhere up the road
- Sat in completely still traffic for a long time
- Texted my manager about 8:50 to tell her that I was going to be late to the meeting because of traffic and ask her if she could let people know
- Also texted my mom to complain and emailed my sister because hell, I wasn't moving, I may as well entertain myself
- Listened to a major portion of the Hamilton soundtrack
- Eventually got annoyed enough to switch to Assassins
- Decided, about 9:30, that if I hadn't gotten to my destination by 10, I got to turn around and go home
- About 9:35, realized that I was in the left hand lane and literally trapped by unmoving cars
- At 9:50, the car in the right hand lane next to me made a break for the nearest exit and I was able to slip through, do the same, and escape, while saying grateful prayers to a variety of deities
- Sat in a parking lot to text my manager that, sorry, I was not able to attend the meeting after all
- Drove home
I am done with today and I haven't even managed to get to work yet.
ETA - And now I've learned that I work with a group of people to whom I can say, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays" without them having any idea that I'm quoting something. I am despondent.
- Got up early because I was scheduled to go to a meeting at a branch that is about a forty-five minute drive from my house
- Left the house at 8 o'clock for a meeting scheduled from 9 to 11
- Got stuck in traffic at about 8:30 because of an accident somewhere up the road
- Sat in completely still traffic for a long time
- Texted my manager about 8:50 to tell her that I was going to be late to the meeting because of traffic and ask her if she could let people know
- Also texted my mom to complain and emailed my sister because hell, I wasn't moving, I may as well entertain myself
- Listened to a major portion of the Hamilton soundtrack
- Eventually got annoyed enough to switch to Assassins
- Decided, about 9:30, that if I hadn't gotten to my destination by 10, I got to turn around and go home
- About 9:35, realized that I was in the left hand lane and literally trapped by unmoving cars
- At 9:50, the car in the right hand lane next to me made a break for the nearest exit and I was able to slip through, do the same, and escape, while saying grateful prayers to a variety of deities
- Sat in a parking lot to text my manager that, sorry, I was not able to attend the meeting after all
- Drove home
I am done with today and I haven't even managed to get to work yet.
ETA - And now I've learned that I work with a group of people to whom I can say, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays" without them having any idea that I'm quoting something. I am despondent.
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Date: 2015-11-19 11:04 pm (UTC)I still remember years ago, working in the remand centre and having got through 50 minutes of my 60 minute drive, I hit random bumper-to-bumper traffic. There'd been an accident on the highway and everyone was taking that particular road to bypass that section of freeway. I had to text work to say I should have been 10 minutes away, but traffic. Traffic that resulted in an hour of sitting on that stretch of road.
Man, just hinking about that makes me appreciate how close I work to home now.