this got longer than i expected

Well. It would take too much of my brain power to really go into detail about what the last two weeks have entailed. Lets just say that I had a short experience of travel with the band and ended up with a cold becaus of it (Thank you Ship and Peretto hah) It was exhausting...but a lot of fun. I was very glad to be home when we were though.

..except when we found our fridge had been open a crack for three days. YAY all the dairy stuff was spoiled. We're still using the ketchup, butter and bbq sauce..The Butter because it was sealed and I always left sticks of butter out on a butter tray back at home and when I had my apartments in college. It smelled fine and neither of us have died from eating it..so I think we're good to go. All the other suspicious items have been thrown away.

So on Wednesday of last week while I was sitting around doing absolutely NOTHING but feeling miserable, I emailed my account exec at the temp agency I am with to inform her I was back in town and she could continue to throw job ideas at me. She calls me about ten seconds after the email was sent and we set something up that day for a job in Boston on Friday.

Cut to freaking out about Massachusetts transportation on Thursday night. It was all very lame and I am still not pleased with the way the employees treat commuters. Thats another story for another day. Maybe I will get to it. Friday rolls around and its a very long boring useless day. I did TWO letters for this law firm. TWOOOOOOO TWO TWO TWO in the entire five hours I was there. What on earth. However, it should be somewhere between 80 and 100 dollars in my hand just for those two letters so I can't complain too much.

While I was at that firm I get a call from my temp agency and they wanna know what I think about some jobs. Cut to about five minutes later, I have a job and I started Monday. The weekend was very nice and relaxing and then I had to go to bed early on Sunday and I hated it. REAL WORLD ALERT. No more glorious vacation and waking up whenever I want to. Oh well.

Anyway the details of this job dont need to be shared. Basically its in the heart of Boston and it doesn't pay well lol. Especially for what commuting is costing me. So I am continuing to look for another job much closer to home. However, I REALLY like the people that work there so far...I mean..its a big firm compared to what I am used to..the job is easy easy easy and they really have it together there. I am not doing any legal secretary work which is sorta lame but if they ask me to do that, I am asking for a pay raise. What I do keeps me busy and on my feet. Maybe I'll lose a few pounds with all this walking around Boston!

Okay okay I must share some interesting commute stories.
A. Friday I am at the station with plenty of time to catch the 4:40 train to West Roxbury. However I have no idea how to figure out what track its going to be on. Reminder..this is my FIRST TIME riding a train from South Station..ever. So I wander up to a conductor and she says "What line?" I tell her and she huffs at me and says "You're in the wrong area! You probably missed your trian!" and TURNS AROUND. I wanted to be like UM LADY I DIDNT WANT THE TRAIN LEAVING RIGHT NOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED. So I am litterally so exhausted at this pt...(Oh yea I forgot to mention I was wandering around Boston for an hour and 15 minutes with no clue as to how to find the street I wanted...) that the conductor's rudeness almost made me cry. I composed myself and figured out ON MY OWN how to find the track my train would be on.
B . Monday night I am RUNNING to the train station after work. I got let ou 15 mins early and thought I might be able to catch the 5:32 train to Bridgewater instead of the 5:55. Well I went the wrong direction after leaving my building and basically, no I didn't meet that train. But what I did encounter was RUDE conductors who don't like to answer questions. There are voices on the loud speaker saying this train boarding and last call for that train and yada yada yada. Well since I was cutting it so close and had no idea what name I should be looking for on the screen(since I was taking a different train) I ran up to a conductor and asked NUMEROUS times what train he was standing in front of...and he ignored me. FABULOUS. He didnt even look at me. So I gave up on trying to catch that train and wandered over to another conductor to ask what name i should be looking for on the screen. He answered my question, without looking me in the eye and was pretty short with me.
C. Today ..Oh today how grand you are. Alright last night was when I made my post about the cost so we won't get into that. This morning I need to make ONE stop at an atm before the train so I can have cash. (of course..no vendor at this station so they charge you two extra bucks to purchase the ticket on the train). But less than halfway from hom my gas light comes on and I decide not to take the risk of running out before hitting the service plaza or the train station and I pull off an exit that takes me like..two miles to the gas station. Then traffic getting back to the interstate is horrible.

When I finally get to my exit it takes me 15 minutes to get to the train station(should have taken about 5). My train is there already and I freak out because I cannot miss this train, or I am getting back on the highway and driving to Boston. I stuff two bucks for parking in a random slot and I have to literally jump on the train as is it taking off. But I am on it. Breathe easy.

The conductor comes around to get tickets and I tell him what I need and he says to me "You know you can buy your ticket at *Insert name of store I cant pronounce or spell* beforehand." and I said, "Yeah I just dont have time in the morning to make that stop." He says to me, "You should make time. We like it better when people buy their tickets from vendors."

uH WHAT? You do not speak to someone like that. SORRRRRY Traffic was bad and I lost abotu 20 minutes sitting in it. SORRRRRRRRRRY that you get to make MORE MONEY OFF OF ME!!!!!

Oy.

D. Coming home tonight ...no major bumps in the road aside from getting a $2.75 service ticket for not paying my parking in the correct slot. Oy.

But the best part..is that I went to the Subway line on my lunch break..to buy a sub card bc I am going to try that way of commuting out for a while..and the only worker that was down there WAS SO HELPFUL TO ME. I started walking towards him and he was alert and ready to ask questions. I told him I was new to the area and he advised me on what my best action was. T-Subway workers WIN over T-Commuter rail workers. By far.

Thats all she wrote for now. I am sure there's more..but I need to get to bed. Six am is an ugly time of the morning