I love coming to work each day. Still working out the kinks though lol. I got stuck on BART in the terminal and not enough money on the card to get out back to the streets of SF. So I walked tentatively over to an Add Fare machine and it spit out my money since I only had a 20 and it only took 1's and 5's. And no credit cards. Great. So the guy let me go out to get change as I left my bike behind the gates. Once I got back in and put in a 5, it spit me back all my change in quarters...lots of quarters LOL. I could have used all those quarters for meter parking at Poly! Anyways, I get my bike through and chink, the little doors close between me and my bike. Fantastic. I stand there thinking how funny it would be if someone had a camera right now and thanking God that a BART hadn't just unloaded. Some guy grabs onto my bike and I have a moment of panic that he's just going to take it out of my grasp, but he stands there and smiles and nods over to an attendant who looks over and ushers me through the emergency gate. Embarrassed, I say my thanks and walk off to buy another BART pass for my trip home later.
Something to note is the inconsistency of the public transportation. I had paid for a pass with a Visa before. Now they didn't take Visa cards at these kiosks. I walk over to a lady at the window and she says that none of the machines take Visa. I tell her I've paid for it at Ashby with a Visa before. She refines her statement to say that the Embarcadero, Montgomery, and Powell stations don't take Visa. I say oh and walk off. LONG BEHOLD, as I'm walking past another set of kiosks along a wall, one of them has a little Visa card sign that catches my eye. I think it's the only one. But I bust out my Visa and put 20 buck on a new BART pass. I'm convinced that they make it all this confusing on purpose just to mess with all of us...employees included.
Oh yea, and an older man asked me to marry him after I helped him put only a little bit of money onto a BART pass from a larger bill. He was very nice and I thought it was cute haha. To be honest, I hardly knew what I was doing myself since I just moved up here and all.
Steven came over here for lunch today. We gave him some free CNet food because it was Bring Your Kids to Work Day. LOL that statement sounds funny. Steven was our kid I guess haha. I had snuck some food a little bit earlier and found some other interns doing the same thing so I went up to eat with them in the gameroom on the third floor...Allison and Stephanie. Free arcade games yea! Anyways, with the free food that we didn't have to get else where, we spent the rest of our lunch break with Niklas exploring the city blocks at the Moscone center and surrounding parks and gardens. It was fun. I found out that there's a 24 hour fitness literally less than a block away from my work. I'm going to start making use of that for sure...just have to figure out how to plan it in to my weekly schedule with showering and bringing extra clothes and all.
Okay, well I think it's time to go back to the game room and go home. Everyone's been kind of playing today while I worked (feels more like studying) with their kids here and all, so I don't feel bad taking a break to the game room. Hmmm...better make it quick since I'm meeting Kimpers in Berkeley for dinner tonight. Okay, Michelle out! See ya.
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