Transportation woes...

It snowed heavily all day, and I walked home from work.

I've had trouble with the buses for the past week. They closed one of the bridges across the Ottawa River, which has caused the traffic at evening rush hour to back up on Rideau Street. Normally it takes me about forty minutes to get home by bus; lately, it's been taking two hours or more. Most of that time is spent sitting reading in a stationary bus. It took half an hour for the bus to get from King Edward Avenue to Cumberland Street on Thursday; on Friday, the bus driver said it would probably take an hour or more to get from the Rideau Centre to War Memorial. (For the-out-of towners: these are locations roughly a block apart. A short block.)

So on Monday I walked to the Transitway at Laurier (roughly a fifteen minute walk) and took a bus to Billings Bridge and then took the #1 northward to the Glebe; it took me only an hour to get home that way, but it was reasonably unpleasant. One of my nightmares came true: I had to stand on the crowded bus. I coped. Didn't like it, though.

So tonight I walked home, in the snow. It seemed more palatable than the bus and the immobile traffic everywhere downtown. I fantasized about getting snowshoes. Might not be a bad idea. It was a tiring walk. My legs don't like me any more, and have subsequently stopped talking to me, or obeying my commands. It took about ninety minutes to get home, but I suspect any bus I could have found would have taken longer.

And tomorrow... No buses. They're going on strike. I walk or - or what?

Sometimes life is complicated.

Which Torchwood character am I?

I got this from torchwood_three, created by demotu: Which Torchwood Character Are you?

I would, of course, have been disappointed if I'd been anyone else. Because I am Captain Jack Harkness in everything except gender, looks, century of birth, immortality, situation, knowledge, time-travelling experience, position, dimples, greatcoat, geography, relationship with the Doctor and ... Okay, okay, I'm maybe not much like him on the outside, not so's you'd see, but deep down? I'm sure there's a simliarity.

( And then my second match was Toshiko... )