Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bus?
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have a class at a most inconvenient time, 5:40-7:30 p.m., and it's downtown to boot. So during three prime State Pressing hours when it'd be nice to be in Tempe, I'm either in Phoenix or en route.
Usually, I catch the 5 p.m. bus that gets me to class just in the nick of time, but I realized today that I've got lots of downtime between our afternoon budget meeting and the bus ride and that most stories I have to edit come in while I'm on the bus or just getting to class.
So today my master plan was to bus over to Phoenix early, edit stuff before and after class and then bus back as soon as I was done editing stories so that I could look at pages in Tempe.
Well, after a longer-than-I-had-hoped story-editing period, I missed the ASU shuttle back to Tempe by about 30 seconds. But that's my own fault for not hustling downstairs any faster or earlier.
But having missed the bus, my backup plan was to take a Valley Metro bus back to Tempe since one of those was due to swing past the campus in about 10 minutes and the next ASU shuttle wasn't due for a half-hour.
So after 10 minutes of waiting for the 1/Washington bus, it pulls up right behind the Red Line bus. Said Red Line bus takes up most of the length of the bus stop, and although it goes into Tempe too, I'm waiting for the 1 in the wings, so I walk on down toward the corner, where the 1 is sitting in the middle lane.
I make eyes at the bus driver, who then points at me and points forward down the street. I take this to mean, "I'm in the middle lane right now, but I'm pulling up to yonder bus stop. Why don't you walk over there?" But she must have just been pointing with her middle finger instead because as I walk forward along with the bus, it never merges right to stop at the bus stop. And as I speedwalk forward toward the next bus stop (I don't run for buses. Tiev asseblief.) the bus speeds up, moves over to the right and barely even slows down as it passes that next stop.
So then I kick my flip-flop off to convey my general disgust and also kick a few road cones and listen in frustration to a prerecorded announcement that the Valley Metro customer-service office isn't open right now on my way back to campus, where I take that half-hour-later shuttle after all.
But believe me, Valley Metro will hear my wrath tomorrow when their voicemail-less gripe line reopens. Beezies.
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| 9/04/2008 09:38:00 PM
La Jolla, Vol. 5
I knew there'd be advantages to coming back for a fifth fall semester as an undergrad, and I'm proud to announce one of them right now: After much trial and error over the past four years, I have finally succeeded in spending a weekend in San Diego without getting sunburned. Fifth time's the charm, I guess.
Anyway, this year's Labor Day retreat was pretty sweet, although pretty different from the ones in years past. I'll hopefully get around to posting more details later, about such things as Katy Perry songs, Katy Perry points, and maybe even Katy Perry as the Antichrist.
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| 9/01/2008 11:37:00 AM
First issue: Done.
Well, we're not quite a well-oiled machine (yet), but this semester's first issue of The State Press is on its way to the printer.
Among my favorite things:
a) The front page of sports (which gets its own section tomorrow) has a section-front layout that I hope we can carry over to normal days, when sports starts inside the paper.
b) Also, we took a good first step away from being a Tempe-centric paper with tomorrow's issue. We had stories available from all four campuses, and although we held onto our West campus story for another day's paper, tomorrow's State Press will feature news from the Polytechnic campus on the front page, as well as a couple of Downtown Phoenix campus-specific stories.
c) It's done. It's 44 pages. And therefore, tomorrow is gonna seem like a piece of cake. (I hope.)
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| 8/25/2008 02:21:00 AM
Too Drunk