Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003 The Pitch: It's like Sleeper meets Four Weddings and a Funeral! It's a good thing I've got a reasonably good internal clock, because I forgot to turn on my alarm last night. Consequently, I woke up at 5:00 a.m., which is the time I've been getting up these days. Unfortunately, because of Daylight Savings Time, this meant that it was 6:00 a.m. and I had twenty minutes to catch my bus. Yes, this was the morning I swore I'd catch the 6:21 bus, in the hopes that it'd be more timely than the 6:41.It's funny. It's not surprising that different times of day feel different, but what was surprising to me is how much different 6:20 felt from 6:40. Weirdly, there were more people waiting for the 52 at that time than there are later. The bus driver smiles more, the seats are colder. Nobody except me gets up before the bus has stopped at the BART station. Nobody except me runs across the intersection to beat the traffic--this compared to the two later busses, where I'm part of a small trotting flock that winds its way behind cars and trucks and then waits to sprint from the island to the sidewalk. The BART train is more full (probably because it's the 6:30 train, the first of three that arrives in the space of five minutes) but also quieter, like a nursery during nap time. Less people walk up the escalator, they let the machinery steadily lift them up. And, at the top of the escalator, a different morning: not as many panhandlers, no temp workers saddled with sample bags handing out breathmints or flavor strips, and the smell of Spring cranked up a notch--seeds and dew distilled to the morning air and expanding in the arriving heat of sunrise. It could have been much worse, but it probably would have been better if the alarm had gone off. posted by Jeff Lester | 8:52 AM | |
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