short cut

Probably 75% of my commute from work is through construction zones. It's exhausting and I hate it. Tonight I decided to take a short cut on the back roads. I found a road that I thought went parallel with the freeway and was shocked that nobody else was smart enough to go that route. "Haha on you," I said to the other cars as I sped away from the gridlock. Okay. I live in Michigan. We have more roads than the rest of the planet combined. How is it that I got on the one road that first of all, turned to dirt after a mile, and second, then went waaaaaay out of my way before there was a cross street? Why didn't I just turn around, you ask? I didn't turn around because I live in Michigan and there are a bzillion roads and if you are patient, one will be just around the bend, or over the hill. Unless of course, you are me and you haven't eaten lunch today and you are tired and just want to get home. Then you end up going way south because you are a stubborn asshole and then when you finally do find a road to head west on, it goes by some plant and the shift is getting out so there is a whole new gridlock to deal with. Haha on me. That's what they were all saying to me as I turned down that empty road. So. With construction it takes about an hour and ten minutes to get home. With my short cut it took an hour and twenty-five minutes.

When I got home Willie Horton was sitting on the dining room table (bad cat), Barbaro Garbey immediately started whining for attention, and there was a package in the mail for me. The other night Jesse told me he bought something for me but he wouldn't tell me what it was. I almost had him convinced that he bought the rabbit for me (the rabbit, not a rabbit) but we were both fooled. I called him to see if I could open it before he got home and he said I should wait. Luckily he was only a few minutes away. I know I've said it before but I have to say it again. Jesse is the best boyfriend ever. The return address on the package was "Steel's Used Christian Books" so imagine my surprise when I found this book inside. Tonight I am working on a paper for my microtheory class. I wonder if I will have time to read this new book and add something to my paper just so I can cite it. That would be awesome. It probably won't happen. But I will be sure to update you as I read.