Driving Me Crazy

As of this date, Jordan does not have a car. When he wants to go somewhere, he checks the bus route and the weather outside. Many times he wants to go somewhere but can't find a ride.

Jordan as a passenger is at least five times faster than Jordan as a pedestrian. Jordan likes being a passenger. He likes being a driver too. The difference between five and twenty-five miles an hour is huge when you're used to walking everywhere. With a car, you don't have schedules and tedious bus routes to work around. You make your own path, at your own time. And you don't have to dress up in a tench coat and boots to go grocery shopping on a February morning.

But for some people that just isn't enough, and Jordan can't quite understand why. Some people act like every red light is a threat to their existence. If another driver cuts them off, it hits them like a personal assault. They honk, they shout, they point fingers to the sky. They take driving for granted. What they really need to do is smile, and remember that even in bumper to bumper traffic, they still get to sit down.

Luck?

Jordan waits at the bus stop, hands in his pockets and ready for another day of skating. It had snowed the night before, but this morning the weather was sunny and well above freezing. The snow wouldn't stick for long; a week at most, and then it would all be gone. Directly above Jordan, the telephone wires sag with the weight of the sticky snow.

Just then, a lump the size of a computer mouse slips off the wire and heads for Jordan's head. Jordan is listening to his iPod, and leans slightly to the beat. The lump of snow misses his head, skims off his shoulder, and guides its way right into Jordan's jacket pocket. Of course, the snow promptly melts and diffuses into the fabric before Jordan can decide what to do. The most Jordan can figure is that it was a really lucky shot, and perhaps from now on he'll always have a little luck in his pocket.

Jordan adds this event to the fact that he missed LOST last night for skating practice (he's got a show to do tonight and tomorrow), but found out this morning that because of the writers' strike there aren't any new episodes until April 29th. What luck!

Bunnies and Chocolate and Jesus, Oh My!

I finished the last of my Halloween candy last week, only to have it replaced today with a basket full of chocolate eggs and chocolate kisses and chocolate coins and marshmallow bunnies and jelly beans and almond chocolate chip cookies...

Spring is almost here!

The ground is still frozen in some places, like this mini forest, whose floor hasn't been exposed to air since it snowed on New Years Day.