Never Thought I'd be so Glad

...To be stuck in traffic on 495.

There I was, tired and hungry on a Friday afternoon, stuck in traffic because a semi decided to flip itself over right in the middle of rush hour. (Not that such things are particularly unusual for DC traffic). I just wanted to get home. There wasn't even anything good on the radio. It was frustrating, and I kept flipping and flipping through the stations...and all of a sudden, DC101 was playing REALLY GOOD MUSIC, just like the old days. (Haha, yeah those golden times when I went to prep school and grunge was just as fashionable as lacrosse...)

They played "Everlong", "Santa Monica", 'When I Come Around", "Dance, Dance", something by Gorillaz, "Flagpole Sitta", "Heart Shaped Box", "Ants Marching","Mrs. Robinson" (the Lemonheads version)...the whole time I was sitting there, the good music just wouldn't stop. It was INCREDIBLE. I haven't spent that long on a radion station continuously in years. When I finally got up to where the truck had flipped over, the emergency crews were actually leaving - so all of a sudden I was at the front of traffic, and the beltway was WIDE OPEN. Hahahahahaha. (To all of you non-DC people that probably sounds lame. But being able to go 70 at 5:45 on a Friday afternoon on 495 is a major feat. Trust me. I mean...yeah, I'm pathetic.)

It felt good to crank the radio and drive along without a care in the world...and tomorrow morning I'm doing "Race for the Cure" with my mom's office in DC. It should be fun, I'm going to bring my camera. And then I'm going to lobby for going to church at Ft. Myer because I absolutely love that place. And then Sunday I'm going to watch a lot of Arrested Development with some people. The weekend feels like it's going to turn out so well...I like being busy enough to have things to do every day, but at the same have a lot of hours to myself, or in the case of the TV shows, time hanging out but not rushing everywhere. Summer is so good. Life without a workload like last semester...very very good indeed. And life in DC is most excellent.