I Now Hate My House

This past weekend I got some bad news: the train stop by my house was going to close temporarily ... for one year. Since my house is only a few steps from the train and I am nearly completely dependant on public transportation, my commute to anywhere got that much worse. So now instead of a thirty second walk to the train I am going to have a ten minute walk. The worst part of the closing is the timing. The stop is closing right when it starts to get freezing cold. Had I known that this stop was closing I think that I may have moved when my lease expired last May. And I think the thing that bothers me the most is that the CTA has not even posted signs at the station to let us know that the stop is closing. We had to read about it in the newspaper. Also, I am not looking forward to the noise that the construction will cause virtually next door. This just compounds the problem and turns one of the best aspects of my house into one of the worst.