Today was a dumb day.

This morning started out at 7:00AM, waking in order to try to make it to the DMV to get a Massachusetts driver's license. Two hours later, I walked out of the DMV with no license, because none of the 5 documents I brought with me to verify my residency in Somerville counted - including two documents sent to me at that address from the DMV itself. I need a utility bill or bank statement. Looks like this task is going to have to wait.

This afternoon, I went to work finishing the transcriptions I've been typing as a semi-part-time job. My space bar had already fallen off, but the rubber tip was still on, and so it still worked with some manner of integrity. No longer. The rubber is off, folks. (Yeah, feel free to giggle.)

So I go to buy a keyboard. The Staples closest to me doesn't have one for less than $50. But the one about a mile away does. So I walk. And I get a keyboard for $15. Hurray! And there's a bus right by the Staples going back home! Hurray!

But I get on the one going away from Coolidge Corner. And towards Harvard. And I'm too proud to get out when we stop and there's the 66 bus going in the opposite direction right across the street. So from Harvard I go to Park Street, and from Park Street back to Coolidge Corner. Finally. Almost two hours after I left in the first place. No doubt it could be said that by the end of the whole ordeal I was frustrated, hot, tired, and feeling more than a little moronic.

But hey - at least I got to cross a bridge.