A clash of cultures.

Ok there seems to be this little riff going on at work. See we bought all these games for the break room, like jinga, monopoly, checker/chess etc. I was crabby at work so I was eating in the break because there were too many people in the office. So I said to recetionist that we should play a game. She picked checkers becuase it would be the easiest and the quickest. Well it turns out there are some, well I'll call them made up, rules to checkers. So we are playing and S makes her way to my side of the board and gets a King. I'm all no big deal, though she won't move any of her checkers out of her side so I can get in, they still aren't going anywhere. Well then she tries to move like three spaces with her King to Jump me. I'm all what the hell are you doing. You can only move one space at a time. Well its starts this whole big thing where in we need to break out the rules. Half the people at work though really thought thats houw you play the game. There really seems to be a divide along the lines of where you grew up. Thats the best I can figure. Seems a little crazy to me though as what would be the point of the game once a king has been made if it can do whatever it wants. There was actually quite a big of discussion about it throughout the day. I'm happy to say that we did break out the rules, and i was right. I can always live with that.

There's a fucking mouse in my house.

Ok I know I have an apartment, and I've been trying for almost a week to pretend that it wasn't there. I know you wondering how one can pretend something is not there, but before last night I hadn't actually seen the stupid thing. See I guess its NOT actually in my house per say, however its seems to live in the entry way to my front door. I noticed the other day there were paper towels and a rock outside my front door that appear to have come out of the hole in the frame. Now I was pretending because I didn't stuff paper towels in there. I was trying to assume that whoever live here before me would not actually think that a viable option to fill the whole, but apparently I give them too much credit. Anyways, like I said I was pretending that it wasn't there, being that I hadn't actually seen it.
Well last night I opened up the door and turned on the light, and this little thing crawled out of the air conditioning. Then it proceeded to crawl up into a whole that I would guess goes under the stairs to the apartment above mine. Ish. I do actually have all my christmas stuff out there and now I'm not sure I will be touching any of that anytime soon. Hope it doesn't get really hot because I'm sooooo not touching the Air conditioner, which I think I might now actually be afraid of.
I really don't know what to do about the mouse becuase I don't think I can do the whole trap thing, and I'll be real honest and say that Idon't know how else to get rid of it. I mean seriously if filling the whole with paper towels didn't work I really don't know what will. On the plus side I'm happy that it was not a rat. As I was kind of freaked out at the idea of a rat being in my house. Ever since I saw this HUGE ASS rat run across the street and down the alleyway between my building and the building next to mine.
Seriously I just want a normal apartment where the only living things are people. Is that really too much to ask. You would think not but apparently it is.

I hate the bus

Ok so after a long trying evening at work where almost no one showed up for work, I left to take the train home. Now the subway is closed for the redline train due to the stupid consturction. This is irratating enough. The trains however were suppose to be re-routed over elevated tracks so that you can of course get into and out of the Loop. Ok no big deal, right no wrong. Apparently on Madison and Wabash there was an accident in which a crane fell through the pavement and hit a building. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070519crane-accident,1,5123458.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Then all the trains and bus had to be re-routed. Well I just assumed that maybe they would have this issuse fixed by 11pm and I wouldn't really have any issuses. I was wrong. Only problem is that the only information I had was that the trains going into and out of the loop weren't going down Wabash. No information about where you were suppose to get the train. SO I thought to myself I'll just take the bus north and get off at belmont instead of walking to each train station not knowing which one was open.
Turns out this was not a good plan. Because well the bus I needed to take wasn't running, or that what I heard. But honestly I don't know which was the right bus except that the one I was on was not the right one. Try as I might to get off on time to try another route I could not. I could actually move in the damn bus because it was soooooooooo fucking crouded. I seriously had to breath slowly to keep myself from having a panic attack it was that bad.
So then I get off at the next stop which was apparently 22 blocks north of where I needed to be. So I walk across the street cause other people walked across the street, and I asked this couple that I thought was waiting for the bus. They were like you are WAY to far north. Turns out I was in uptown.
Heres were the story works out in my favor. I asked if any of the buses would go to belmont or near there from the stop I was at since there was no map. Then i was just like fuck it I'll take a cab. But they were like we are going south we can just share a cab and drop you off. Which they did even though I really didn't have any cash. They would even take the cash that I did have. I'm was really very surprised that they were soo nice. I can see my mom freaking out right about now reading this. But they were an average couple in their mid 30's. It was seriously crazyness. Now its almost midnight and all I want to do is go to bed. Shitty day shitty night but in the end good people. And no mom I don't normally get into a cab with people I didn't know, but it did seem slightly better option than waiting on the corner for a cab (which was already taking forever for one) by myself. Moral of the story I'm only riding the Belmont or Lincoln buses from now on. And I hate the CTA not that its thier fault this time. I just need someone to blame.