Welcome Followers and Happy Thursday

Well hello everyone. Nice to read all the entries from my fellow blogger pals!! Let me just start by saying I too am excited about this new venture...blogging, although it took a minute to explain to my mom what blogging is !! I am a very chatty person so you can best believe I WILL read and respond to your posts !!! It's just what I do, just ask my Facebook fans. I'm also excited for figuring out how to put this picture up here. Learning, learning, learning....that's what I'm doing everyday!

So many of my friends have anxiously waited to see what entertainment I would bring to my latest challenge in life...being a UB blogger !!!

Well, we'll save the real humor you've become used to me giving for next time. This time I have a real issue to discuss...speeding & crosswalk safety around this campus. People speed everywhere but the streets/intersections around this campus are filled with a different type of driver and poor pedestrians (like myself) just trying to get to the other side. Maybe it's due to our proximity to Penn Station or 83. I don't know but its bad. You almost feel like you need to call for emergency rescue and just tell them "hold on, I might get hit in a minute".

I'm really starting to think those colored things (known to most as traffic signals) hanging at the corners of Mt Royal & Charles and other surrounding intersections around the school are for show....or to teach school children their colors ! They certainly are not for the walkers, drivers, rollerbladers, skate boarders, bicyclist and anyone or anything else needing to get from one side of the street to the other. It is horrible. I guess you need to be ten feet tall to really notice them.

But you ever wonder what exactly these people are racing to? Next time you waiting to cross the street look closely at the faces of the drivers who won't let you go. Try to figure out if they are racing to Maryland Ave Garage to find a good parking spot so they can get to class on time or did they forget to pick the kids up from school or do they need to get home before their mate so they can start dinner or did the business meeting just run late and they mad. When I read a book, I like to become a character...put myself in the middle of the story. Put yourself in the passenger seats of these cars and see if you can figure what the rush is !!!

Watching these people reminds me of something my mother told me during a trip to Newport News, Va. Cars were passing her left and right. Me, being a stickler for time, had mapped out our trip, including how long it should take to get there, how much time we'd have to rest before going to our destination in Newport News. I repeatedly asked her to speed up cause we were behind schedule and she simply told me, of course in that calm, patient, motherly voice of hers YOU CAN'T MAKE UP TIME. She never met the drivers on the streets around this campus !!! They're making up time and I'm losing it playing cat and mouse trying to cross the street.

Well it's Thursday so enjoy your Friday and I'll see you back here next time. Thanks for reading !!!