Summer nights ...

Today I started a new assignment for my summer temp job. Its working as a file checker for a major mortgage company downtown. Today was a "black flag day" which means that the temperature is over 100 degress and the heat index is over 110 - essentially it is freaking hot. I left 15 minutes early so that I would have ample time to hit traffic or get lost. Because I was over prepared I got horribly lost. The whole thing was exacerbated by the extreme heat and 3 questionable sets of directions. I called and let "whom it may concern" that I was running late and to clarify where in the name of asphault I was.

But eventually I made it and the job is easy and rewarding, plus the atmosphere is really communal and non competitive. The reason I even bother to mention it and the purpose of the above photo is the drive home tonight. I got off work at 9pm, the sun had been down long enough for the ground to release its pent up heat and the breeze to find its way through the city. I love driving, I especially love driving a manual through the city highways at night with the radio playing exactly what I want to hear - loudly! The drive home was the antithesis of the drive to work and completely relaxed me.

This wonderful sojourne into "East Rider" also made me think of some friends of mine back in Oz (coughlukecough) who I think find driving to be as zen as I do.