Sarah wrote a lovely rant about left turn arrows in her blog. Go read it, if you're interested in why I drive the way I do now. My only response to it is this. If you're sitting in the middle of the intersection and someone (like me) blows through the yellow (because I'm timing the stop lights) -- wait for the red and then go. Really. Even if you're driving a geo, nobody's going to run over you. The people staring at you through the driver's side window will wait.

At least now I know how she's feeling when she's sitting in the passenger's seat and I'm driving around the city making left turns.

Oh, she did leave out how insanely frustrating it is to get caught behind someone trying to make a left turn on a street with no green arrows. There's a section of North Sharidan (wow, is that anywhere near how it's really spelled?) that turns into a parking lot just because someone wants to turn left. If they turn right, they'll run into the lake, so I'm not sure why there are no green arrows along there. There are streets. It's legal to turn left. I bet if a nice policeman stood out there in the parking lot at 5:30 and asked for donations, the drivers would stop pulling their hair out for just a minute to donate a few dimes towards a green arrow light. You'd have enough money after just one rush hour, I'm sure. So really - there are no more excuses.

Books: I'm trying to get through the rewrite of a particularly difficult chapter. A lot happens in it, and it's even important to the story. But it's not exactly... a key turning point.. so I don't want to spend forever making sure you understand all the nuances, because they just won't matter all that much a hundred pages down the road. Their consequences matter, but the events themselves aren't really a big deal.

But I digress. I should go work on the chapter instead of whining about it.