I made the desert run yesterday, covering just over 500 miles in about 7 1/2 hours (including a stop at the border for gas and snacks).  I probably would’ve made record time had it not been for the usual slowdowns out in Palm Springs and San Bernardino.  I was, however, pleasantly surprised to find out that the spirit of radio is alive and well in the form of XM — one of their channels was doing a Saturday night show that I kind of thought was prerecorded, since on my way out to Tucson on Tuesday night, I heard the guy on the air give out the request line number and I called to find I was dialing a voicemail box (admittedly, it was 3am in DC where he was).  Either way, I called into the Saturday night show to make a request and gave it to an actual person who picked up the phone… and despite the fact that I requested a followup single that went nowhere from a one-hit wonder, my song was pounding through the speakers 20 minutes later.

Now comes the task of trying to fight off, well, senioritis for lack of a better term.  As of the end of my workday on December 14, I’m on vacation until 2008.  I’ve got a ton of stuff to do before then, but it’s still a matter of keeping myself motivated to get everything done that I need to without losing the will to live.  And then it becomes a matter of figuring out what the hell I’m doing to do over those 2 1/2 weeks without being bored to tears.