People can be so rude on the metro! Last night, a young black woman (she turned out to be 24) got on the train pushing a stroller with a small baby in it. A young black man got on at the same time, and although they obviously weren’t together he kept asking about the child. He decided it was male (she corrected him), and then decided it didn’t look black enough (the baby was much more pale than either of the adults). He asked the woman, what’d you go do that for? She didn’t hear him the first time, so he said what’d you go messing around with a Spanish dude for? I was totally shocked that he’d say that kind of thing. Then this morning, a young guy got on the train at the end of the line and promptly slouched across two seats. He closed his eyes and listened to music, and the train wasn’t very full so he stayed all sprawled out. Several stops later people were standing, and he kept opening his eyes to peer around and determine which stop we were at. At one point he even leaned over himself in a very relaxed, I’m-falling-asleep-now sort of way…and I couldn’t believe he did that the entire trip (he got off at the stop before mine) without for one moment considering it would be polite to allow another person to sit.



Today has gone fairly well, even though the temp is proving herself only somewhat competent. She was ten minutes late yesterday with a quasi-reasonable excuse, but this morning she was twenty minutes late and said “oh, I just had one of those mornings” and gave me a list of stupid reasons. She’s been doing an okay job with office procedure, but I won’t be including her on the list of possible new hires for the future.



Accolate seems to be a real pain. I have to take it on an empty stomach, which means one hour before eating and/or two hours after. It’s a lot more confusing than it seems; I like to nibble throughout the day rather than eating big meals so this is going to be annoying.