fuck traffic

Today it took me an hour and a half to make a 50 minute drive, and I think it pushed me over the edge. There is just something intrinsically wrong with going 20 miles an hour on an interstate. I could go off on a rant about the lack of reliable public transit in America (seriously, how is there not a train from San Jose to Oakland? Makes no sense) or the level of metal retardation a person can have that is still acceptable for the California DMV to issue a driver's license, but I've decided that if I'm not going to have a road rage incident, I need to take a more Zen attitude towards it. That which I cannot change....

One thing today's awful commute highlighted for me is that I really do want to find employment in the South Bay. I thought for awhile that I'd be fine commuting (I really only make the drive twice a week) but today's unexpected snarl at an early time really drove the point home for me, pun intended. I spent all of yesterday afternoon working on the content of my resume, and I then applied for a job at the San Jose Earthquakes. I'm pretty proud of myself for doing that, just because sometimes I have such trouble with motivating myself - I think job searching is so difficult, because you're essentially setting yourself up for rejection. But what am I saying, I'm NOT going to be rejected because I'm going to implement the power of positive thinking! (Speaking of which, I'm reading the new Barbara Ehrenriech (sp?) book about how the myth of positive thinking is ruining America, but whatevs.) I'm going to post my resume so that I can get advice on formatting. I'm great with content, not so great with presentation.

One "small world" moment from my commute though: I got a text from someone I haven't spoken with since before I left Virginia (upwards of 4 years now) and it said "the name of the copy shop is xpedx." Now, clearly this was not meant to me (probably directed for another Sophie/Sophia) but I noticed the name of the shop, as I'd never heard of it before. Then WHAT DO YOU KNOW, not 10 minutes later, a big rig with XPEDX on it drove by me! Amazing, eh? Never heard of it once then all of a sudden it's all over the place! It always happens that way...