maldis ([info]maldis) wrote,
@ 2008-11-14 21:40:00
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According to Mapquest, the distance I walk every morning to work is 1.26 miles, and I walk home again in the evenings. This has not been as difficult as you might think, after the first week or so (which followed a mostly sedentary period from early May to early October, between graduating and finding a job. Sorry, you'd know these facts if I were better about updating my Livejournal, but the problem is I suck. Anyway,) that is, it's been surprisingly easy up until the last few days. It's become so much harder because a week after tomorrow, we're moving, and the walk distance shrinks to .31 miles. Still, so long as climate change doesn't cover the streets of Philadelphia in snow in the next eight days, I think I can keep myself in check.


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[info]andrea_wot
2008-11-15 04:52 am UTC (link)
what, wait, you finished the second masters? and got a new job? where, doing what, details, man! :)

(As far as commutes go - mine is 1.1 miles, and i *drive* it. unless my car won't start. carbon footprint? cardiovascular health? what are those?)

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[info]maldis
2008-11-15 03:00 pm UTC (link)
what, wait, you finished the second masters? and got a new job? where, doing what, details, man! :)

This deserves its own (forthcoming, I promise!!!) post. Short answer is I'm a software developer for a local small business.

As far as commutes go - mine is 1.1 miles, and i *drive* it. unless my car won't start.

I'd be driving too, if it made sense to drive here, but the infrastructure mostly nullifies any benefits of driving, at least within the local area. Imagine, if you will, a city where businesses are packed so tightly together that on a typical block, you'll pass 15 to 20 storefronts on a side, often connected to buildings 4 - 8 stories tall. Parking lots are few and far between, as is street parking. Where there aren't stores, there are high-rise apartments. In 2005, Center City (where we live and where I work) had a population of 88,000, encapsulated within roughly 3 square miles.

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[info]sekl
2008-11-15 12:58 pm UTC (link)
Woohoo! Here's to your new commute.

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[info]maldis
2008-11-15 02:35 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!!!

The new apartment is worth celebrating too, but that deserves its own post. Soon. Maybe.

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[info]sekl
2008-11-15 04:17 pm UTC (link)
Excellent. I hope work stress subsides for you entirely.

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