Sick, but not stupid.
Mar. 11th, 2009 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingArgh. It happened again. Every two or three days since getting this evil upper respiratory tract infection, I'll be much better. I'll be nearly free of it. Then, that night, the cold will conspire to give me the most evil night's sleep – the last two times it was my throat being incredibly painful and swollen combined with sinuses so jam-packed as to give me a headache. And, of course, prevent me from breathing.
This time it was coughing. The last couple of days the cough's gotten much worse; it seems as though it's my body trying to rid itself of all the leftover mucus. Whatever the reason, every time I got even close to dropping off last night, I'd have another coughing fit. Once I was in that state where you're very nearly completely asleep when it started off again and WOKE ME UP. I thought coughing was more or less a conscious act. Apparently not.
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Because it was a public holiday on Monday, I had twice as many newspapers to go through as usual. Apparently when Lynne Kosky has been telling us all that the City Loop is at capacity, she's been lying. The same number of peak trains are being run as in (?) 1975 before the loop was built to DOUBLE the number of services. Then a Department of Transport Official Excuser said that we couldn't run that many trains because we have so many people jammed onto the current services that the trains are having to stop for longer to let them off.
I wanted to reach through the paper and slap him. For goodness' sake, the whole PURPOSE of increasing the number of trains is so there are fewer passengers crowding onto each service, thus magically removing the problem you were complaining of. And by the way, can we have more trains on the Upfield line at peak? Trains every twenty minutes is not a peak service. It's what happens ALL day. Even just one more per hour would be dandy.
This time it was coughing. The last couple of days the cough's gotten much worse; it seems as though it's my body trying to rid itself of all the leftover mucus. Whatever the reason, every time I got even close to dropping off last night, I'd have another coughing fit. Once I was in that state where you're very nearly completely asleep when it started off again and WOKE ME UP. I thought coughing was more or less a conscious act. Apparently not.
Because it was a public holiday on Monday, I had twice as many newspapers to go through as usual. Apparently when Lynne Kosky has been telling us all that the City Loop is at capacity, she's been lying. The same number of peak trains are being run as in (?) 1975 before the loop was built to DOUBLE the number of services. Then a Department of Transport Official Excuser said that we couldn't run that many trains because we have so many people jammed onto the current services that the trains are having to stop for longer to let them off.
I wanted to reach through the paper and slap him. For goodness' sake, the whole PURPOSE of increasing the number of trains is so there are fewer passengers crowding onto each service, thus magically removing the problem you were complaining of. And by the way, can we have more trains on the Upfield line at peak? Trains every twenty minutes is not a peak service. It's what happens ALL day. Even just one more per hour would be dandy.
