The Silver Lining of No Wheels

Thank you, delphinios.

As I was bitching last night after Cy's Werewolf game about not being able to find a ride into work today, Delphi recommended that I walk. Normally, this would be a preposterous idea; anyone who's given me a ride to work knows that it's not a hop skip and jump from where I live to where I shelve books. But, faced with the prospect of either paying $10 to wait for a cab that will make me late for work or waking up daroneasa, who still has bronchitis and would be running on four hours of sleep, for a ride, it didn't seem like such a bad idea.

I woke up at 7 (this gave me about four - five hours of sleep myself), took a shower, grabbed my Walkman and started in by 7:30. Along the way I picked up a liter of water, two Starbucks Doubleshots, a 4-pack of SlimFast and a few minibags of light butter popcorn. Even with the detour, I made it into work by 8:45...15 minutes early.

This was one of the best mornings I've had in a very long time. Nearing the university I had this moment of satori, where I melted into 'just walking,' watched the birds and squirrels as they made their morning rounds, felt the sun and wind, heard the music piping in rom my headphones, and just felt supremely happy and grateful that I could even experience this. Now my energy level is way up, I feel like I take anything work can throw at me, and am almost certain I'll crash like a rock sometime tonight and sleep like the dead for a solid 8 hours.

Needless to say, I think I might even eschew the bus for work for this last month; walking about an hour every day is stupidly wonderful exercise. I'll gladly do it at least three times a week, provided my legs don't kill me tomorrow or Monday. ;)