Crazy Drivers and non stop talkers

Greetings Gentle Readers,

I thought the drivers out on the West Coast were bad, especially in Southern California. But I was wrong! The drivers here would win gold medals in the worst driving contest ever! Pedestrians too just gleefully step in front of cars as well. Oh and the making up of your own traffic lane is a nice touch that hasnt made it out to the West Coast. Apparently today I was too slow making a right turn so this car behind me decides to just move around me and make a right turn.

I am not driving at my usual break neck speed for a few reasons.
#1--I am not used to these cars
#2-- I dont know the streets
#3- I usually have an older sister in the car with me.
#4--I'm not cruising along with my standard praise music/taize or Africa cds going. Music makes all the difference when you're driving.

Today the other soon to be postulant drove me nuts. While we are beginning this journey at the same time, we are not in the same places on the inside and to me, that's a-ok. I am praying everyday to learn to work through my issues with her talking NON STOP whenever she sees me. All of you know I enjoy a good chat but lately I find that I am sinking deeper and deeper into the rhythm of this place and, in so doing, I've noticed that I am craving silence and solitude. To counter this, the other postulant said, "I don't like silence" I immediately thought, "girl, you are in the wrong place if you dont like silence as we have lots of it here." I tried politely to smile and nod and get back to my newspaper article about a football player with no legs who is homecoming king of his school. She didnt get the message and began to jabber on and on about how after a retreat she cant shut up. All I kept thinking about was the 4 hour ride to New YOrk City we're supposed to do next week. I will definitely charge my ipod up for that and check out some novels. While in NYC, I will definitely need some alone time as we're together for 4 days straight.

And if you ever see me with a newspaper reading an article, for the love of all things, please don't interrupt me. Since I can't watch MTV , Blind Dates or South Park TV episodes, the closest thing I have would be the newspaper which I can only read in small doses now since I'm on a schedule. So please, dont mess with me when I'm reading the paper. :) I am starting to take sections of it and retreat to a reading room. However, there you run the chance of an 88 or a 90 year old suddenly yelling out things they think are interesting as they are reading the paper. I guess I can't win here.

5am is going to come too soon.

Over and out,
monk_1975