Yesterday was Harvard's commencement and I couldn't go to work because I didn't have a ticket and my office is in University Hall which is right in the middle of Harvard Yard. Unfortunately, I spent 75% of my day off in traffic in and around the city. Yesterday driving was about 3 times as bad as it normally is. I had to run miscellaneous errands (including getting a new car stereo installed) and going out to dinner with my wonderful girlfriend, Jenn, which was jammed up because of a JPMorganChase “Corporate Challenge” which tied Commonwealth Avenue from the Commons to Kenmore. It took an hour to go from BU to Copley which is a little over a mile. When I found out why it was taking so long I could only think to myself ‘I’m sitting here stuck in traffic and it’s not even for a good cause?!?’ Up until this point I could at least justify holding off my anger at the traffic by saying to myself ‘they’re helping kids somewhere’ or ‘raising money for research for cancer.’