Honesty Hour.

Just a couple points of randomness from this past week:

- News about the NHL lockout makes me more mad than the NBA lockout did last year.  I'm not a super huge hockey fan, but I think it's entertaining ... I'm definitely more of a basketball fan (daughter of a diehard Lakers fan right here), but for whatever reason I find the NHL lockout infuriating. Hmm.

- This may sound prejudiced, but I really don't know how to spin this any other way.  I totally respect wearing of hijabs because I understand the reasoning behind it - do I necessarily agree? No, but it's the prerogative of the women who wear them and I'm not about to tell someone they shouldn't wear one.  Anyway ... those things are dangerous when driving! So I was in the outer lane at a dual left turn today and this woman making the turn next to me WAY over corrected right after the turn, she nearly side-swiped me by coming into my lane, thank goodness for the bus lane/stop I was able to drive slightly into to avoid getting hit.  Man, if looks could kill, she would have been incinerated on the spot - I was SO mad.  Now, maybe it was actually just her over-correcting to an insane degree, or trying to avoid the snow slightly piled along the median? But in any case, it probably also didn't help that her peripheral vision was completely blocked by the way her veil was wrapped.  She had about an inch in front of her face! So annoying ... I'm not sure what the conventions of wrapping the hijabs are, and I really don't care if you wear one because that's your religious custom, but keep it out of your face! I don't often see women with the hijab coming forward off their face, I more often see the style wrapped just along the hairline.  That seems to be the safer option.  Definitely.  ESPECIALLY if you're going to be driving.  Oh my goodness ... HOWEVER, I do just have to say that it was most likely just her being stupid and not watching/paying attention.  I mean REALLY.

- While on the topic of driving ... hey, macho men in the gigantic pick-up trucks? And you rich snobs driving the huge Escalades and other luxury SUVs? You don't own the road! Don't drive down the middle of the road - you know, those residential ones that are meant for TWO-WAY TRAFFIC?! Have some damned courtesy and drive closer to the side you're supposed to be on! Also, I'd appreciate a friggen signal light or thank you if you're coming in front of me.  Oh, and the bumper space between me and the car in front of me? You're huge honking truck will NOT fit in there; I left more space because of the ice, stupid BUT even a small car wouldn't have fit in there. Yes, looking at you asshole who almost side-swiped me the other day by trying to fit into that space but then swerved super quickly away because you decided on a different route.  Sheesh!

- ANYWAY ... perhaps I should make a disclaimer: I know I'm not the best driver and I've got some pretty bad habits, but the stupidity and recklessness of all these other people is just mind-blowing!

- Moving away from driving ...

- I just have to say that my dinosaur hoodie is the most comfortable thing in the WORLD.  I'm super warm and cozy right now.

- I hated, HATED that Taylor Swift song, Never Ever Getting Back Together, when it first came out; the flat verses and mediocre lyrics annoyed me. It's since grown on me, simply because it's so damned catchy. I like to apply it to my exes from high school haha.

- I was watching Grimm earlier (love that show) ... and it was scary.  I've never gotten scared from an episode before, but this episode ("La Llorona" if anyone wants to look it up) took the creepy factor to the maximum! Ughh ...

- Super exciting things happened on Tuesday - I bought tickets to the Maroon 5 concert! Thank goodness for fan club pre-sales haha.  I'm still holding out for tickets into the pit which don't go on sale til tomorrow when the general public can buy.  You can bet I'm gonna be up and refreshing the ticketmaster page like a maniac just to score those tickets.  Ugh ... I'm SO excited.  Adam Levine is the ultimate sex.  I've loved this group since they came out with Songs About Jane.  Once I've been to this concert, I will have fulfilled my top two concerts that I absolutely needed to go to before I died - I went to Bryan Adams last summer, and now Maroon 5 will be in town in March! Woo!

- I really need to get a move on with my grad school applications :( Not to mention, my GRE re-take is just over a month away :'(

- I'm actually starting to have second thoughts about my career plans ... not in the "I want to change what they are" way, but in the "I don't think I can make it" way.  I guess I've just been thinking about what happens if I get rejected again this cycle a bit more lately.  In all honesty, I don't think I would try again.  But in a way, I almost don't want to try at all.  I guess I'm just so terrified of rejection this time around that I'm not even willing to put myself out there.  Don't get me wrong, I will get my applications in, but I'm REALLY putting it off because of the whole rejection thing.  I should also admit that I've been re-thinking the whole thing and I really wouldn't mind just being a preschool teacher or something.  Yeah, yeah, preschool teachers don't get paid nearly as much as speech-language pathologists do, but I would be working with preschool aged children which is what I love doing and that's really what matters, right? I dunno ...

- I feel like I'm getting boring with this entry.  I've actually been sitting here writing this blog for over a half hour, so I think I'll end it there.

I'll leave you with this song Daylight - Maroon 5... it's my favourite song off of the Overexposed album and I do believe they're planning on this being the next single that's released.

I never wanted to stop 

because I didn't want to start all over, start all over.

I was afraid of the dark, 

but now it's all that I want, all that I want ...

And when the daylight comes I'll have to go,

but tonight I'm gonna hold you so close.

'Cause in the daylight we'll be on our own, 

but tonight I need to hold you so close.