January is just...gone
My least favorite thing in the whole world happened...I finished this post yesterday, uploaded it, and it did not post! So here we are, after some new editing...
I've spent the last few days in a philosophy-induced coma. I had a test yesterday, that I was really, truly worried about. Now that it's over, I don't really understand why I was so worried.
Anywho, exams are about to pull into town and murder the student populace, en masse. Usually, in times of stress, Boyfriend swoops in to pull me out of my misery. Unfortunately, not this time. He's off doing engineer-rocket-scientist-evil-genius type things this week, and is pretty unavailable. Not to be terrible sulky, but this leaves me stuck in my studies, which I suppose is a good thing, but I'm not really super impressed either.
In good news, there's no school on Friday [tomorrow] because of a super awesome university-wide holiday. February is pretty much the worst month to be stuck at school during. I figure that's why we have both Munro day this coming Friday as well as 'spring break' in just over two weeks.
The big news in teh city is the transit strike started today. At 12:01, all the bus drivers walked off the job, and are not returning to work until their demands are met. They've been a little vague about what it is that they want, except that the union wants more control over they scheduling, as well as the traditional request of pay increases. This is a major inconvenience to all the students living in Halifax, because the majority of people in the city do not own cars, and do rely on the bus. I believe that the number they were throwing around was 100,000 people every day take the bus.
It's only the first day, so I haven't noticed a difference personally, other than my classes being a bit more empty than normal. But if this goes on for much longer, I think we'll all feel the difference. It's things like how getting to Walmart is an hour's walk from here. When I need something that I can't get within a half hour's walk, it's going to start being much more inconvenient.
For now, things are fine, but in 1998, the strike lasted 5 weeks, and I don't think the students of Halifax will stand the inconvenience that long.
I've spent the last few days in a philosophy-induced coma. I had a test yesterday, that I was really, truly worried about. Now that it's over, I don't really understand why I was so worried.
Anywho, exams are about to pull into town and murder the student populace, en masse. Usually, in times of stress, Boyfriend swoops in to pull me out of my misery. Unfortunately, not this time. He's off doing engineer-rocket-scientist-evil-genius type things this week, and is pretty unavailable. Not to be terrible sulky, but this leaves me stuck in my studies, which I suppose is a good thing, but I'm not really super impressed either.
In good news, there's no school on Friday [tomorrow] because of a super awesome university-wide holiday. February is pretty much the worst month to be stuck at school during. I figure that's why we have both Munro day this coming Friday as well as 'spring break' in just over two weeks.
The big news in teh city is the transit strike started today. At 12:01, all the bus drivers walked off the job, and are not returning to work until their demands are met. They've been a little vague about what it is that they want, except that the union wants more control over they scheduling, as well as the traditional request of pay increases. This is a major inconvenience to all the students living in Halifax, because the majority of people in the city do not own cars, and do rely on the bus. I believe that the number they were throwing around was 100,000 people every day take the bus.
It's only the first day, so I haven't noticed a difference personally, other than my classes being a bit more empty than normal. But if this goes on for much longer, I think we'll all feel the difference. It's things like how getting to Walmart is an hour's walk from here. When I need something that I can't get within a half hour's walk, it's going to start being much more inconvenient.
For now, things are fine, but in 1998, the strike lasted 5 weeks, and I don't think the students of Halifax will stand the inconvenience that long.