Long road ahead

I drove back to LA last night after spending the weekend at home and early in my nearly four hour drive I found an annoyance, a black van! I began listening to my iPod almost immediately since there is not a decent radio station to listen to for 90 miles. I have a Monster iCarPlay transmitter for my iPod, which like other FM transmitters uses a radio frequency to transmit the iPod music through the car speakers. Aside from all the cars driving excessively fast, I was happily singing along to Dashboard Confession; that is until I was interrupted by Barney, the purple dinosaur!

I notice that the black van next to me had a car DVD player, where I'm assuming toddlers were watching Barney & Friends. I was surprised by two things (1) that children still enjoy Barney and (2) that Barney is still on the air! Barney would not have bothered me so much if he had not interrupted Chris Carrabba singing Vindicated (theme to Spider-Man 2), but alas it did. From that point on I engaged in a quiet battle with the black van. Whenever I would pass the van in an attempt to avoid static and Barney's moral stories, 5-10 minutes later my friend was right next to me. There was a point where I thought I had got rid of that 'ol van for good, because I saw the van pass me going about 85mph and if he/she continued at that speed our paths would no longer meet. But there was a checkpoint , and can you guess what vehicle was a car ahead of me....the black van.

I suppose I could have changed my iPod's frequency, driven either extremely slow or excessively faster to avoid my van nemesis, but I did not. Although I was upset by the interruptions Barney & Friends bestowed upon me and Chris, it was sort of a game, although I might have been the only one playing it. At first the interruptions irritated me, and I cursed the the invention of car DVD players, and parent's unimaginative nature in once again using a screen as a babysitter (actually I really like the ideas of car DVD players and I'll be sure to get one!). But after awhile I found the humor in it all, especially when Screaming Infidelities was interrupted by the I Love You song. Perhaps black van, we'll meet again someday, and I'll be ready.

Yes I'm aware I havent updated in three weeks, and let me be the first to say that I feel extremely guilty! I apologize. In those three weeks I've had my Spring Break (nothing eventful), a week of unfortunate events, and incredibily busy days. I've noticed that since I started my internship I have lost any desire for productivity after work hours, which is unfortunate considering I still have classes to attend. I'm sure that this in time will pass but until then I must I will apptempt to keep up with homework, class, and work. Welcome to grad school...