cosmolinguist | So, how was YOUR Sunday?

Of course I'm the lucky one who ends up with the really high person, sucking something out of an aerosol can, sitting next to me on the bus. When the driver tried to get her off, she flailed until she hit another passenger who started fighting back and screaming...all this by lunchtime! I'd only been awake half an hour at this point!

(I'm fine, except before she started the fight the druggie pulled on my sideys and asked "Are these intentional?" which made me tense up so much I didn't even think to go tell the driver when she started sniffing again. It hurts too; even if I didn't want them I wouldn't cut them off because that always hurts.)

The cops had to be called and most people piled off the bus for a while. It being a Sunday there were no other buses so we had to just pile on like sardines again to get get rest of the way into town. If I hadn't been on my way to Bi Coffee, when I knew there wouldn't be other organizer-type people there (not for long, anyway), I'd have just turned around and gone straight back home. I was so fed up, and a little shaken. The screaming and flailing and hair-pulling h happened right next to me. The flippant responses of some of the other passengers as we filed off the bus ("Why does this always happen on our bus?" "At least we got to see the fight this time"...) didn't help me me better.

But I soldiered on and am really glad I went to Bi Coffee; some lovely people and good conversations happened. Since I was somewhere that didn't have whisky I treated myself to afternoon tea, got the most decadent cake I could see, had two refills on my pot of tea, and generally had a great time.

After a little self-pitying, I cleaned up bathroom, got through the first conversation I've had with my parents in a few weeks (who insist on calling on Sundays even though I haven't been around for any of them lately), made nice food for dinner, and then was up until three in the morning trying to help Andrew deal with how much #piggate had DDoSed his brain.

Here's hoping today is calmer and a bit easier to get through!