My commute used to involve three major roadways and 50 minutes going/ an hour and a half returning, if I was lucky. When I was pregnant, my husband came to collect me a few times from work, and I recall him exclaiming, "I can't see how you do this EVERY DAY. If I had to drive this, I would have quit by now!" Strong words coming from someone who worked for 6 months with a 1 hour/3 hour ratio. Traffic in Houston is the WORST. THE WORST.
Thankfully, a nice shortcut linking two major roadways together has opened. It significantly reduces my drive time for a small fee of roughly $40 a week. Overall, it's worthwhile. I am able to devote more time at work with groups/orgs and tutoring. I can get to my son in a small blink of an eye opposed to mind-melting eternities in which he burns to death from fever before I can arrive. So, there's that.
When I'm not rushing to the rescue and I have some leisure and fuel to burn, I love to indulge in Audible books. My current read is Tell the Wolves I'm Home, a fictional writhing through the loss of a beloved (or something more? Something closer?) uncle dying of AIDS who was a skillful artist. So far, there are bright moments of clarity for the main character, and the storyline is both intriguing and uncomfortable in the "I just drank way too much sugar, I'm drowsy and want to lie down, but this room is full of needles" kind of way.
I cannot recommend it enough.
So, yeah. Here's to long commutes, and to having the freedom to choose them or to take alter-routes on a whim. Whee!
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