train karma

A few divine rules of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), if you will:
1) You will always be approximately one block from the station when the exact train you need pulls up the the platform. You will consider running but will instead continue trudging and watch the train pulling away.
Amendment: Sometimes, you will miss the train by a narrower margin, particularly if you are running late or it is very cold or late at night. On special occaisions when all three of these factors are in play, you may even be able to pound on the train's side as it pulls away, leaving you behind.
2) If you have to transfer trains during the day, there will always be one waiting for you right there. However, if it is again late at night, very cold, or you are behind schedule, you will have to wait for long periods of time, sometimes twenty minutes or more. Sometimes, when you get on the train, it will sit with open doors for about 5 minutes while you shiver.
3) If you are waiting for a train, at least two trains going the opposite direction will pass by while you stand there impatiently.

Yeah, I hate the CTA sometimes.

In other news, I updated my profile and found out something a little weird and kind of funny. When you view a profile, you can click on any interests and the computer will show you other people who listed the same thing in their interests. So, of course drag kings were one of my interests, and so I decided to see who shared my feelings. There is only one other person on blogger who has listed drag kings, and that person is from Tucson! It's this 20-year-old guy named either Cosmo or Matt, and he's also way into Bentley's and various other things that mean I should have run into him somewhere, but he doesn't really look familiar. Does anybody know who this person is? If you look at my profile and click "drag kings" it will show his profile and a picture. I want to know if it is somebody I know and am just not identifying, or if it's some total random guy.
Incidentally, Dorothy Allison is way cool.