Early bird

Blogging from Starbucks, drinkin' a much-needed soy misto as I wait for 6:30 to roll around so I can walk to the bus stop of my 2nd bus... This new Children's Hospital is really a nuisance to get to, what with all the transfering of modes of transportation and whatnot.

Anyway. I was walking to the (1st) bus stop at 5:50 this morning. It was dawn-ish, with the sun getting brighter each second. From down the street way ahead of me I could see a car weaving along the street, crossing into the opposite lane, idling, weaving back and forth--driving recklessly, in short. Before I knew it, it was driving toward me, and then started driving directly at me (on the sidewalk on the other side of the road). I could see that the window was open, and there was a man driving. I got nervous. I prepared to run away from this potentially drunk ill-intentioned man.

He then proceeded to throw a newspaper onto the lawn of the house I had just passed, weaved back to the other side of the road, and drove away.

Eric sometimes says I get up with the donut-makers and paperboys of the world. Unfortunately (well, fortunately), Pittsburgh actually isn't a donut town. But everyone has paperboys. And yep, this morning I was up with one of 'em.