Rain, snow, cheese-its

[evilhippo]

Tonight was a largely crappy night punctuated by people who were surprisingly cool. I was done at work way too early tonight (8:45), but thanks to the fact that there was weather tonight, the bus took about 40 minutes to show up. While I was waiting and playing at being oblivious with my headphones on, a goodly-sized crowd gathered in the bus shelter, mostly made up of one family (the mother and father of which looked to be about 18 or 19. They had three kids. The kids were cute, but omg, three kids at 18 or 19.), as well as a few people heading home from the grocery store. One girl (I think she said she went to DePaul) opened up a box of Cheese-Its, and a rather transient-looking woman made some kind of comment about everyone opening up their snacks. And the DePaul girl? Her first reaction was a very honest, not cynical at all, "Do you want some?" And then she proceeded to offer them to the children, and the lady, and to everyone else huddled in the bus shelter. The offer was just so automatic, too. I wasn't sure there were people like that at random bus stops, ones that actually got the lessons about sharing. She made me happy. I hope good luck finds her a lot.

The bus driver lady was cool tonight, too, once the bus actually showed up. She actually apologized to all of us for making us wait in the rain, and let a good number of people on for free because, apparently, a lot of drivers didn't show up for work today and they were making her work hours later than she was supposed to. She kept up a pretty witty banter for most of the three blocks I was on the bus, and so I thanked her and wished her a good night when I got off to go to the store.

So, it's good to know that every once in a while there are people who are capable of redeeming things in the world slightly. Someday, I hope to be one of them.

Ah, and more cute for those of you who don't follow Neil Gaiman's journal: Children's drawings turned into photos. Some of them are just awesome in this abstract way. I'm torn between the one on the bed with the rest of the furniture facing up, and the one with the guy standing on the couch with the floating chairs (the wedding one works almost too well as an image that has nothing to do with the drawing, so I'm leaving it out of my favourites).

Comments

[jabberwockeyes.livejournal.com]

Those picture/photos are really cool... I love the colors.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I kind if makes me wish I'd had the super powers required to take color photography. But then I remember that would've coincided with my BA or my last quarter, and so I'd be dead right now. (-;

[jabberwockeyes.livejournal.com]

Better to be alive....
But what happened to the page?

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Possibly too much traffic? Things Neil links to have a tendency to get overrun.

[jabberwockeyes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. I tried it again and it worked. Of course, when I showed it to Shaph/Tool, he started critiquing the quality of the pictures... ::shakes head sadly::