CTA and money

I just added it up and discovered that I spend $14.10 per week on the CTA-at a minimum. I don't qualify for the student U-Pass, because I'm only taking 6 credits instead of 12, but I think that I do qualify for a reduced fare pass. The regular reduced fare pass is $.75 for a ride and $.15 for the first transfer thereafter. Sadly, it isn't valid on weekends or weekdays after 8 PM, which means twice a week after class I'd have to pay the full $1.50 to get home. Just for my regular routine I'd end up spending only $8.50 a week. For four weeks that adds up to $34.00. Considering that in a 30 day period there's usually at least one extra trip--putting me up to at least $35, it's probably worth it to get the $35 reduced fare 30 day pass. That is my decision. Now I just have to remember to call RTA.

W00T!

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)

Week of January 31, 2002

Some piranhas are vegetarians. A few Christians really do love their enemies, as Jesus recommended. The Capricorn tribe isn't exactly renowned for fomenting revolution, yet some benevolent troublemakers have been born under your sign, like insurrectionary leader Benjamin Franklin, abolitionist and suffragette Lucretia Mott, muckraker I. F. Stone, and civil rights champion Martin Luther King. I hope these role models inspire you to rebel freely in the coming week, Capricorn. This is one of those rare and anomalous moments when you will really benefit from finding the exception to every rule -- especially the rules that desperately need their authority questioned.

I told her I needed affirmation

EveAndOdd: YOU
EveAndOdd: are SO cool
EveAndOdd: you're like my very own snowglobe of coolness
EveAndOdd: I can take you anwhere, feel better in your presence, but not have to worry about frostbite