some driving to work thoughts

i looked at myself in the rearview mirror this morning and immediately thought, "i have anne frank hair."  i'm only basing this off of the picture that was on the cover of "the diary of anne frank" when i read it long ago, but the resemblance is somewhat eerie. i even got a barrette thing going on.
hearing the rush song limelight is a good start of the day, a definite 7:30 a.m. song. i like singing along in a geddy lee-esque voice when i'm alone in the car, even though at that time of the day i'm still pretty croaky.
sometimes it makes me sad when i see a school bus stop at someone's house even though there is no kid there to pick up. maybe the kid is sick, or moved, dead, graduated, who knows? but i think that for some reason it makes the school bus sad when there's no one there to pick up. fuck that bus driver.
i'd also like to thank and nominate the gin blossoms as being every grocery store since at least 2006's number one band on their store muzak playlist. it also kinda makes me sad that they have their own youtube channel, but then again if they saw my blog it'd probably make them pretty sad for me too. they are alcoholics, you know. it's all in the name. you should feel bad for them and their shared disease.
i also saw a car accident a few blocks away from work, and i can't exactly figure out how it happened. a maroon toyota corolla (most likely piloted by a college student, it did happen right in front of virginia tech) hit a light pole facing the opposite direction on the wrong side of the road. i saw them putting the dude on the stretcher. the car and pole didn't look all that messed up but i wonder what caused all that? shitty start of the day for that dude.
by the way, i had an initially terrible day at work. by 10:30 a.m. i cried briefly at my desk. (alone, i would never do such a thing in front of people.) once my frustration-induced sobbing subsided five minutes later, i went outside for a smoke and felt numb for most of the rest of the day. i had a few laughs at other people's expenses towards the end, and i felt better. i left at 6:15, bringing the work plants and what little personal effects (2 pairs of headphones, my glasses, 2 things of chapstick, a choose your own adventure book, ansel adams' the camera, and a decibel magazine) home with me. it feels good to look at the plants in my own habitat. :)
tim also bought a "new" chair today. thinking about it made me want to sit in it, and i must admit it's much better than the pea-green rough as sandpaper awful chair we had before. we gave the old one to the neighbor kid who really seems to love it. hope he loves vacuuming all those old tortilla chip crumbs up from under the cushion. (or not.)
i don't want to go to work tomorrow, the next day, or the day thereafter. saturday will be a day of relaxation and will start the feeling of impending doom until i find another job. so with that in mind, let's go to bed!