Oooh, that was a nice commute!

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Just curious, what school do you work at? I'm a College Park alum.

I'm at Howard Community College. My DH used to work at UMCP when he first moved to the area. Talk about a horrible commute--we were living in the Baltimore suburbs and he had to do the slog down I-95 every day.

I don't know if it's laziness so much as lack of imagination. The woman I'm thinking of in particular, the one who was complaining the loudest yesterday about having to drive past the campus to park at shuttle parking, lives just two miles from campus and gets in early every day to work out at the gym, where she runs five miles on the treadmill and then does 20 minutes or so on the weight machines. I don't know, maybe she has bad allergies or something. I don't think I would have thought of walking either except one day last winter (in my pre-bike days) I missed the shuttle and was standing there thinking "well, I could stand here freezing my butt off, or I could walk and be warmer and get to my car before the shuttle even gets back here." I don't think I had even given any thought to how close it actually was to walk--it was just necessity (and cold toes) that made me think differently.

Sarah