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It's trivial my dear! ... ... ... ...
So this evening has been, well, interesting.

Therefore, I decided to make a new icon... Just cuz I guess. I found the picture on the vintage_ads community - it's called "Atomic Thoughts" - I'll have more from there soon...

Anyway, I wanted to sweat like a pig, so I excitedly went to Step class (I do find it quite fun indeed!). So I was there, Paramita was there, Megan was there, a bunch of other people were there and our instructor was not. Then a Rec Center employee came up to tell us that we had no instructor after all for the evening :( Damn. So I chatted with Paramita and Megan for a while. It was good. I saw an old lab student and chatted. That was good.

After hopping on MARTA and seeing some ill-behaved future gangstas (sadly, I think they will not be upstanding citizens - I hope they will be but I'm doubting), I got to my car. Trivia with Tabby and her peeps starts at 7:30, it was 7:30 and I was at least 15 minutes away. But, it's trivia, it's mostly to hang out :)

I had my hand-written directions from RandMcNally.com in my hot little hand and followed them. Well, I actually missed a turn but I knew where to meet up with the cockamamie street farther down and so yeah, I did that. Then I proceeded to not be able to find the damned place. Rather stupidly, I did not follow one of my own rules for directions - I did not write down the actual address...
I don't know much of anything of the part of Atlanta that exists to the west of I-75 but is bounded by I-285; that sure bit me in the butt. And the fact that there are several streets named Marietta and they will change names. And it was the one day I was without the cell phone. I've never had such trouble before. The directions from the website were not at fault, I just should have printed them for entrance into such a rabbit warren of streets that happens to exist in Atlanta, the home of paved-over cow paths :/

Sooooo, I ventured into some not-the-best-area areas... But I'd never ever been in that area of town before so really, it was not so bad. I found a huge rail yard that I never knew existed. I found out where Booker T. Washington High School is... I also found Frederick Douglass High School (actually new and looks really nice!). I saw this dilapidated Baptist church that I really need to get a picture of at some point - the way it looked tilted and like it was being encroached-upon by the trees, yet the paint was fresh, but not well painted... I gotta go back there. There were areas where gentrification was going full force - new Craftsman style homes, extensive remodels, condos, "communities" - but just a block beyond it was empty as a ghost town.

All and all, it was a trip that I don't mind that I took :)
I never did make it to trivia. Tabby promises me that we'll leave from school together next time :)