Lunch break
Feb. 13th, 2006 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arwen_luneCan't seem to get warm today. Taking the bus to work this morning was a nightmare. Took 85 minutes (for 14km distance in a straight line), 15 minutes of standing in the freezing cold waiting for a connection, and 1.2 km uphill walking. This would probably explain WHY I'm still cold at lunchtime. Ways to make the commute more bearable are
1) carpool (there's no one to carpool with so this one is out)
2) Put a bike at the bus station in Wageningen so I only need to take one bus, and have no wait.
3) buy a LOC (little old car)
Option 3 feels most attractive as it's only about 30 minutes by car, but then again I don't have much monthly income and a car costs money whether you use it or not. This would bring me into trouble once my internship is over. I can cut fuel costs by not using it, but the tax&insurance still go on. Plus I don't have any handy mechanic friends who could help me keep said LOC running. So option 3 is probably the way I'll end up going. I'll have to buy another bike, then.
I enjoy the workplace... the traineeship looks like it's going to turn out well. The place is interesting. I could describe it in X-men style ('underground laboratories and sikkrit test facilities') but I won't. They gave me a tour of the labs and they're full of PhD students craving a cup of coffee and interesting things that go GLOMP in tubes. No mutants down there at all. The students swore that they were not used as test subjects.
(on reflection that rather reads like the students crave things that go glomp, but there's nothing much to be done about that. Students will be students...)
1) carpool (there's no one to carpool with so this one is out)
2) Put a bike at the bus station in Wageningen so I only need to take one bus, and have no wait.
3) buy a LOC (little old car)
Option 3 feels most attractive as it's only about 30 minutes by car, but then again I don't have much monthly income and a car costs money whether you use it or not. This would bring me into trouble once my internship is over. I can cut fuel costs by not using it, but the tax&insurance still go on. Plus I don't have any handy mechanic friends who could help me keep said LOC running. So option 3 is probably the way I'll end up going. I'll have to buy another bike, then.
I enjoy the workplace... the traineeship looks like it's going to turn out well. The place is interesting. I could describe it in X-men style ('underground laboratories and sikkrit test facilities') but I won't. They gave me a tour of the labs and they're full of PhD students craving a cup of coffee and interesting things that go GLOMP in tubes. No mutants down there at all. The students swore that they were not used as test subjects.
(on reflection that rather reads like the students crave things that go glomp, but there's nothing much to be done about that. Students will be students...)