Commute
My first-cousin Steve and my ex-girlfriend Laura both live in Brooklyn and work at big Manhattan law firms. Door-to-door, their commute takes roughly one hour.
My father, who lives in a suburb of Detroit and works in a different suburb of Detroit, drives to work every morning. It takes him twenty minutes.
I’ve got them all beat. I can walk from my apartment, down Michigan Avenue, to the DePaul University College of Law in seventeen minutes flat. Only now that the weather is warming up, Chicago’s tourism is picking up, and Michigan Avenue is beginning to resemble Disney World’s Main Street USA…only with more tourists.
Here’s what the trip from my apartment to the law school looked like a few days ago:
First I walked down the front steps of my apartment.
Then I walked south on Michigan Avenue.
Then I passed by Millennium Park’s Cloud Gate sculpture.
Then I passed the Art Institute of Chicago.
And then I wound up at the school.
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March 22nd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
i don’t have a workplace. i wish i did. you should all be thankful that you get to go somewhere for your job/school. it’s important, i’m learning, to have that separate place — helps keep work time and relaxation time from intermingling confusingly.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Counselor hank,
I know what you mean. I’m writing this book about law school, and I tried writing some parts of it from my apartment, but I went crazy. So now I just walk 1 block to a coffee shop and work there. Makes all the difference in the world.
-Rick Lax
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I’ve been misrepresented! 35 minutes door-to-door! Downtown, BKLYN. Can’t beat it. Rick — nice blog! SB
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
My commute is the most wonderful 25 minutes of my day because I am most often listening to a fantastic book on tape. This week is Dickens’ “David Copperfield”. Last week was Dr. Weil’s “Eating for Optimum Health”. Next week will take me on an unforgetable journey through the imagination of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds. Who? I know not yet, because I haven’t chosen from the incredible selection of thousands of books on tape at Talking Book World located on Woodward between 13 and 14 Mile roads in Royal Oak, Michigan. Enjoy!
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:36 pm
my dad practices law in a different county but on the same road, and the quickest way to get there is to drive dozens of miles at 35 miles per hour and less. it’s a joke. 40 minutes to and from work every day. makes me sick.