Marie Myung-Ok Lee

... made me feel a bit like I was having an out-of-body experience (or, an odd duet) while I was reading. Snarfed a beer, discussed like issues with fellow Grub Streeters, looked at watch and noticed time had flown a bit too swiftly, ran across lanes of traffic to T, mentally urged subway to go faster, physically moved people so I could run to the bus station, and saw on the monitor the bus had departed, but ran over there anyway (see earlier travelblog--I am sick of driving!)...not always less stressful to take Mass Transit. Also, it turned out the bus driver had not yet left because he was unsure of how to get to the Mass Pike. At first his pleas for help went unanswered--you must be joking, right? Finally, a nice young man stepped up to the plate. We did have a few harrowing "oops, we do NOT want to be in this exit-only lane" moments, accompanied by much honking from surrounding cars, and a few second thoughts about whether I'd been "lucky" to catch the bus after all. It wasn't quite "Speed," but quite interesting nonetheless.