Courtesy

When I can hear your music over my headphones, which are playing loud dark metal right now, your music is too loud.
No really.

Nuance

Can someone strongly dislike a culture without being racist? I mean, if I have zero issue with Americans of a race but feel uncomfortable with people from a country, does that make me a bad person?

I hope not, because what I dislike are the social inequalities and conventions of that culture, not the genetic makeup of the people.

So what is the cultural version of racist, culturalist? Guh

Life changes

Time is no companion, it's a middle manager always watching over your shoulder reminding you that your life is finite.

Train people are all bland today and worth few words.

Battle

In the battle between rank perfume and curry: the curry wins. It beat that perfume smell to death.

Wow that's strong.. Eyes watering.

Strange

Just all sorts of strange people on board. Weirdness abounds. So much so that the one normal guy over there, and I guess me to some extent, are the oddities here.

Scratch that, normal guy who I thought was on the phone with a blue tooth is sitting alone having a calm conversation with his reflection in the window and no phone.

Odd stare

People are funny. I'm not sure if the odd stare I am getting from this guy here is confrontational or strange curiosity. He either wants to fight me or kiss me.
Maybe both.
Hopefully neither.
He is really strange.

FauxGeek

The ancient guy sitting next to me has an old old gateway running XP.
For the last 10 train stops he has pointedly typed the same two commands into a cmd window: dir/w and type stuff.txt.

After typing these in order he strokes his chin in contemplation and glances around furtively.

Dir/w

As if he is hoping I strike up a computer conversation with him.

Type stuff.txt

I hope that is not me in a few years.

*chin rub*

Slippy

Yeah well it snowed but hovered above freezing so it is a giant slurpee outside. My car did a little sideways action on the way to the park and ride but ultimately no big deal. I was hoping for a snow day.
Appears many are seeing it as such because the train is fairly empty.
Then again it's also finals week so many students are done and on spring break.

Grey

I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Hath so incens’d that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.


Ugh, some days are better than others.

Rude

Plenty of seating. No real need to push your sorry ass in front of me to get on the train.

I wish a flu on you.

Bored

Nothing going on the max at this time. Just sitting here in my own little world. Derp. Had a good beer at VC called BattleAxe. The world isn't real.

Frigid

For how late in the year it is, sure is cold. Fingers having trouble typing. Brrr

Done

One and done. Time for the weekend already? Yup.

Back

First day back after a brief hiatus to be with family after my grandmothers death.
Train is the train. People are people. I'm just not that into it. Today should prove weird given my preoccupation and distraction with self-introspective.

Derp

Hi! I ride a bike and take the train, so out of my way!

Fuck you.
Also: abortion.

Timing

Warmest day of the year today, perfect timing at the train platform, pretty girl sitting next to me, and beers tonight with E make this a possibly nice day overall.

Just need to plow through this pesky thing called work. My schedule is full, so hopefully it goes quickly.

Driving with the penis

Damn trimet driver won't wait for me slapping shoe to catch the train, but one leggy blonde jogs lightly waving her hand well fuck if we should hold up the other 200 people aboard so she can hop on.

God forbid she gets on the train right behind us.

Pretty people have too much advantage in this society.

Entitlement

You weren't born with it folks, from whom did you learn this behavior?

Random guy q-tipping his ears on the train and then carefully examining the earwax: gross man. Gross.

Also everyone is wearing black today.

Run!

Barely caught the train. Again. It's like I am sprinting for 4/5 of them. Wee!

Nature has a way of hinting for you to stay in shape.

Bags

As many people as bags have seats on this train with people standing.

Fuck it, I asked the guy to move it. It wasn't that hard.

Hey Friday, missed you.

Inverse

Lots of ugly on this train. Four expressions and bad posture in about every seat. It's a tube full of people who forgot they are alive.

A busy Friday ahead of me, a weekend lies ahead.

Manson

There are beautiful people in Portland.

Rest

I'm not sleeping well, waking up feeling like I just spent a few hours working some manual labor job. Thankfully the replacement bed will be there Saturday.

Uneventful train ride thus far, everyone is keeping to themselves.