My first thoughts of CMNS 253 and the world around

so I had my first CMNS 253 class on monday... i've been off of school for a year now (taking one course a semester) cuz of co-op which kept on being extended. before working, i would always drive to school, don't transit much. while i was working, i transitted a lot since it was cheaper and quicker...and since i got in the hang of transitting...mite as well transit to d/t for my class too! (i live in coq so it's quite a ways away...) anyways...the last westcoast express leaves at 8:10am, so i was planning to arrive to d/t early (at 8:40am) and read! so i wake up early, leave my house at 7:40 to catch the 7:47 community bus to take my to the west coast station! BLAH!!! the bus didn't come! stood there in the rain until 8:00 and it didn't come...i knew that the next community bus comes at 8:16 so i was thinking...since i can't catch the WCE anyway, mite as well take the 160bus! so i waited for the next community bus...got to the main bus station...i guess i just missed the 160bus too!...so had to wait awhile for the next one...again, in the rain. the 160 finally came, but for whatever reason it went the long way and made a loop! grrrrr... so waking up 2 hrs early, to get to my destination which normally takes an hr...i was pretty upset...v____V

i guess after this long story, i realized that when taking the bus, make sure you know which station the bus is going to be at which time!...and be there early!...in my case, i guess i looked at the wrong time for the wrong station..either that or i JUST missed it...v__V

...while we're still on the topic of buses...in my opinion, the transit website is quite useful! (www.transitbc.ca) it has a 'trip planner' where you type in your departure location and destination, at what time and it calcuates which bus and/or skytrain you should take!......you could also specify a bus and it gives you the schedule...and u can even specify a bus stop and it'll tell you which bus passes by! i guess they're using this to decrease the number of copies of bus schedules they need to print.

...that's sth that i've been noticing these few years...a shift from print material to online. there are still a lot of print documents, but often times, there is also a website advertise with even more information than what is printed. "SAVE THE TREES...USE LESS PAPER"...i guess ppl are finally catching on and starting to shift the way we communicate. this could also be arguable tho, that we're not printing less, but communicating more!...hum...i guess this would be a good research topic to work on...