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Jul. 16th, 2004 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intjonathanWell, that was bar none the worst drive I've ever had. It took me 6 hours to get from Lynnwood to Oregon City, and nearly 4 of that was in stop-and-go traffic. My only saving grace was that my parents took pity on me and let me drive the Subaru, which has an automatic transmission and air conditioning. Taking my car on that drive would've killed me (and its clutch). By the time I arrived I was irritable and hungry and just wanted to ignore people and go to bed. Certainly not a good condition to be greeting long-lost relatives in. Fortunately everyone was understanding - many of them had fought the same traffic - so they gave me food and let me space out for a bit. I didn't hang aroud long before we went back to the hotel and I got some sweet, sweet sleep.
So yeah, I'm feeling a lot better now. It's interesting to look back on my mental states over the course of the drive. For the first hour and a half I was feeling very stressed. I hate traffic and dealing with it on a trip I don't really want didn't help. But there was a lot of other things my mind was working through that I guess it needed the time for - surprising what will surface when faced with 4 hours of nothing to do but think and listen to music. But an album and a half later, I felt much better and I don't know why. Maybe I had just come to accept the traffic situation as inevitable. It wasn't like I had decided anything or made a big discovery.
So yeah, I'm feeling a lot better now. It's interesting to look back on my mental states over the course of the drive. For the first hour and a half I was feeling very stressed. I hate traffic and dealing with it on a trip I don't really want didn't help. But there was a lot of other things my mind was working through that I guess it needed the time for - surprising what will surface when faced with 4 hours of nothing to do but think and listen to music. But an album and a half later, I felt much better and I don't know why. Maybe I had just come to accept the traffic situation as inevitable. It wasn't like I had decided anything or made a big discovery.
