On the way home from my incredibly successful (per usual) shopping spree at TJ Maxx (no gift cards this time, just plain old Visa, alas). I took the bus, which is unusual for me – I don’t think I’ve taken a bus since senior year of high school (I went to Dalton, on the UES, and lived on 46th & 10th, so the M11 and M86 buses were my best friends). It was so much more relaxing than taking the subway, and I was pretty much the only one on the thing, which was nice. 

See how relatively attractive/clean this bus is? Back when I used to take them, they were rickety old things with cockroaches quite literally crawling around the seats towards the back (where the heating vents were, I guess). Seriously, props to the MTA (eek, I said “props”) for the facelift.