The school added a new shuttle route that stops very close to where I live. Basically, you can park at the ghetto mall, and catch the shuttle right from the parking lot. Sweet. We’ve been getting emails about it all damn summer.

The shuttle will run from 7:30am to 7pm, every 20 minutes. It will make several stops: law school, hospital, C hall, and W circle. OK, I can get off at C hall and walk a couple of minutes to work, and if the weather is terrible, I can get off at the hospital and take the B shuttle right to my building.

Also, I should add that my decision to do this was not based on some desire to help the environment (although that is a nice side bonus) but because parking fees went up another $100, and I don’t plan on being here a full year anyway. Free shuttle? Thank you, yes.

I decide to try it out today, even though I can still drive for another two weeks on my current parking pass. We JUST GOT an email yesterday with shuttle updates, relisting the times and stops for all the shuttles. So I’m golden.

For a variety of reasons (power went out, couldn’t sleep in stuffy, no A/C room, took antihistimines to knock me out) I slept in later than I really wanted to. But hey, no problem. Every 20 minutes, right?

I get to the mall around 10am. There are people already waiting, and the one guy says he’s been there 15 minutes already, so a shuttle should be coming shortly. So we wait.

And wait.

And wait.

And I sit on the curb and finish knitting the second sock for my mom.

And wait some more.

Now it’s 10:45, and I’m thinking SCREW THIS, I am going to drive. That’s when a shuttle shows up, with OUT OF SERVICE on the messageboard. Crapola. He picks us up anyway.

Then we find out the scoop, from the driver, and from the well dressed man on the cellphone on the shuttle, who apparently works for the shuttle service.

Oh, so by the way? Shuttle service is going to stop at 9:30am, and then start up again at 3.

Oh, and also? It’s only making two campus stops: law school and W circle.

So let me get this straight…classes are about to start for fall semester, and they are CUTTING BACK TIMES AND STOPS FOR THIS SHUTTLE???

Holy fuck. And wouldn’t have been nice to have this information ahead of time, like MAYBE IN THAT LAST EMAIL WE GOT YESTERDAY?

“well…they said it should be on the website…”

OH NO, MOTHERFUCKER! I checked that website LAST NIGHT. 7:30am to 7pm, every damned 20 minutes.

Fortunately, W circle isn’t so much further from C Hall, so I don’t have that far a walk. But I’m definately going to have to make sure I drag my ass out of bed in time to catch the shuttle (ohhh…poor me!) except that remember, I plan on doing much writing, and originally intended to write in the mornings at home, eat lunch, then head in to do lab work. This seriously craps out that plan.
Dammit.

First day of double medication? yeah. not going so smoothly.

(but the socks are done! and before I thought to wait to take a picture…they’re off in the US mail, on their way to my mother. Oh, and by the way, if you plan on finishing a knitting project on your way to work in order to mail it somewhere, and you get to work and realize you forgot to bring a needle to help you weave in your loose ends, a straightened out paperclip with a bent loop on one end works beautifully)