I know it!

So how many times have you seen the "Get the Lap Band" billboards on the freeway, I'm serious I see those billboards at least five times on a single trip to school.

Reflecting upon today: While sitting on the passenger seat of a car, I began playing "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand and the driver quickly said to me "That song reminds me of a PSP for some reason" well what do you know. . . that song was in a commercial for the PSP and its actually the way I discovered the song in the first place!

There are some things that I doubt we will forget, and if we ever travel to another country, or tell our grandchildren stories about all of these things that the media has drilled into our heads, either the other people will laugh at how dumb the catchy names/tunes are, or actually follow along because they are still around. What do you guys think?

Keys keys keys.. keys on Van Nuys.

...Or your mattress is freeeee!

Hahaha

And you're late again

Lets just say that your alarm fails to go off in the morning. It probably went off but you turned it off and don't remember doing so, but let's just assume it failed.

You are late.

You think nobody will notice that you didn't take a shower, and you might be right.. but there's other things to worry about, right? Yes. You likely have a priority list for your morning and you start crossing out the least important things. In order of importance for me:

1) Arrive on time

2) Brush teeth

4) Shower

5) Breakfast

Of course, it gets more detailed than that, but you get the idea. If I wake up late, I'll start crossing out things from my list and sadly breakfast is the first to go. I'm sure yours is completely different than from my list.

For you college students, there are a few changes on the things you do to make your lateness a little less stressful.

1) Don't worry so much about your hair! Try out a new style: while driving to school, leave the car window open and let your hair take shape on its own. I like to call it "the Xes Riah look".

2) Music while driving lets your trip seem shorter or longer, depending on what you're listening to. Contrary to popular belief, I do not listen to music I like because it makes time go faster, when I actually want to slow it down.. that means a country radio station.

3) While looking for parking in a parking lot, start off at the spot where there are almost no spaces and work your way toward the more empty areas. If you do the opposite, you will always think that perhaps there is a closer spot, and you might end up risking it and wasting time. I've learned the hard way.

4) Don't pressure pedestrians to cross the crosswalks faster! Don't think that they're being jerks by wanting to hurry toward the street as soon as they see you approaching; in their minds, they think they are helping you. Get this: as a pedestrian is approaching a crosswalk, he or she tries to minimize the space between himself or herself and the person in front, they're not trying to get to the crosswalk faster. By minimizing the space, they are saving you time. You do it subconsciously too when you're the pedestrian.

Oh, and remember the morning traffic rule!