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A Bittersweet Morning

My commute to work this morning took about 90 minutes. For reference, according to Google maps, I live 8.8 miles from my office and the travel time by car should be 18 minutes (up to 25 minutes in traffic). However, I take the CTA, thus the extra 60 minutes of commuting time.

Anyhow, today I took the Brown line and tried to transfer to the Red line, but there was some kind of backup and the Red lines were "running express with immediate followers behind". That is CTA code for "the trains haven't been running and therefore the stations are totally backed up with people so good luck trying to get onto a train." So instead of fighting through that, I decided to resign myself to the fact that my commute would be longer than normal again and I jumped back on the Brown line.

Now the good part of the morning: After riding the Brown down into and around the Loop, I left the train at Randolph and stopped at the Intelligentsia cafe. I'm now enjoying what may possibly be the best iced soy latte that I've ever had the pleasure of enjoying. Mmmm-mmmm-mmmm! So at least some good came of the morning madness.