Bus Stop Refugees

Something has gone awry down at Paradise Street bus station, the station is closed and now you have to walk down to Park Lane to get the X1 bus. Strangely, not all of the people who get the X1 seem to have made it to the new location. What are they doing? Just sleeping under their desks? I managed to make the change but there were max 3 of the other people who normally get on at stand 4 of Paradise St. We looked quite alone, out of natural environment and forced to wait in the open air at a stop with the people who get the number 27 (yes, those plebs).

Because it's been sunny the last couple of days it almost felt like we were on a school trip, or a cultural exchange to a new bus stop. There were strange people there and I didn't like them. I wanted to gather the other X1 people (Skinny Builder, Old White Haired Man and Glasses Youth) and suggest that we all stick together lest these new people tried to separate us and take us down one by one. 

In other upsetting bus news I left my iPod case which my mum knitted me on the bus and I am told it has not been handed in to lost property. Surely nobody would want to steal such a thing? Firstly you have to have an iPod nano, secondly you would have to be happy for said iPod nano to be clothed in a bright orange wool sock with purple bits and a drawstring. I find it hard to believe that these two variables have collided to lead someone to take it from the floor of the bus.  However, I am without the case and I will have to get my mum to knit me a new one. 

Over on the Guardian Readers Recommend Maddy Costa has chosen Science songs for this weeks topic and already my only ideas have been snapped up. I must have more science based pop songs in my position than anyone, so why can't I think of any? Actually, since Costa has taken over I find the top ten songs to be quite snooty and purposefully obscure. I bet a million pounds that there will be no They Might Be Giants songs on the final top ten list, so from now on I'm going to be posting my own Top Ten based on the suggestions of the RR board, as a kind of protest. Here's this weeks....

Top Ten Songs About Science So There Maddy Costa

1. They Might Be Giants - The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas

2. The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize

3. Jonathan Coulton - The Mandelbrot Set

4. The Handsome Family - Tesla's Hotel Room

5. Captain Beefheart - The Smithsonian Institute Blues

6. Monty Python - The Galaxy Song

7. Ian Dury - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards

8. Rilo Kiley - Science vs Romance

9. Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution

10. Jurassic 5 - The Lecture.

More news from the shores of DS life.....

Finally changed the songs on my iPod, the others had been there since roughly Christmas

I have booked for Eclipse 2 at the Park Inn Northampton and now I need some Maya-esque black plastic tears

Finished the John Peel autobiography, now I on to 'Shakespeare' by Bill Bryson.