Fucking Public Transport Arseholes

[thessalian]

So the Tube's on strike again. 72 hours, started at 6pm this evening. All but the Northern, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines will be shut for the duration. And the three lines that are running will be packed to the rafters. Then there's the people who will be driving in, which will increase traffic, which will make life a misery for the people overloading the bus network. In short, it's going to be hell and I have no idea how I'm even going to make it to work this week. If that weren't bad enough, getting home is going to be worse, so what of the day I don't spend at work, I'll spend commuting. That strikes me as decidedly unfair.

And the stupid thing? They're doing the exact same thing next week.

Actually, the really stupid thing is that this is a pointless exercise. Apparently, the people striking actually don't have any demands to speak of. They're just striking because, although their demands from the last strike were met, they weren't met by the right people so they 'don't count'. I am perplexed and annoyed and horrified. I mean, it's surely ridiculous, right?

Cue the London Underground Song!

So now, despite the fact that I really should be getting up early to face this monstrous commute from hell ... I can't sleep. I am far, far too stressed to sleep. The very thought of cramming myself onto overstressed, overburdened transport media and then stuck there for an indeterminate amount of time really, really gets to me. I can't do this. I'm going to try, bless my stupid Hufflepuffy heart, but I can't imagine that it's going to do me any good, and ... ugh.

So in the meantime, in order to try to calm down, I'm planning my strategy for levelling various of my crafting skills in FFXI. Next stop is a spot of fishing over in San d'Oria - Cheval Salmon to level 20. I need to save one of the ones I catch back for awhile until I hit Windurst, so I can hand it over to the Guild for my next level in the Fisherman's Guild, but the rest can be crafted into lovely cooking things. Mainly I'm thinking smoked salmon, but I need to get my Carpentry up to level 9 to make that fly without the endless critical synth failures. There's going to be a lot of camping out in San d'Oria, I think, until I get that stuff up to scratch. Maybe I'll give logging a shot - it's got to be cheaper than buying lumber all the time, and San d'Oria's good for that. Plus there's the fact that I need to hang out in there anyway for reasonably cheap San d'Orian grapes so I can make grape juice and level Cookery to 50, thus moving up in the ranks in the Culinarian's Guild.

Of course, if I ditched this vain notion that I might actually get into work without dying of stress during the strike, I might actually be able to do some of this stuff... *whimper*

Comments

[lunarwhirl.livejournal.com]

... What the HELL. That's fucking stupid.