Joy of Zen

I was in a Cadillac Escalade today! hahahaha

That was nuts. The damn thing starts with a push of a button before you ever get inside. Dropped my car off for an alignment and oil change and that is what I was given a ride to work in. Crazy. I felt like I was getting dropped off for school with my lime green lunch bag I got from Pavilions for free.

I got up at 6:00 today, that must be some sort of record. I don’t really feel any more awake than usual though :p

And I read that Tom Snyder died I didn’t even know he had leukemia. Sadness.

So I’ve been reading Take the Cannoli forfreakinever now. It’s by Sarah Vowell, who I love. There is a chapter about her and her sister traveling on the Trail of Tears. They are part Cherokee and wanted to learn more about their ancestry.

I know it’s silly to assume things you read are factual, but I really felt as though she has done a lot of research in this area. Turns out not to be the case. I was talking to Measly online about some of the stuff I read and he informed me of some things. He actually has studied a lot about Native Americans.

In the book she talks about the Cherokee having Black slaves (part of them trying to fit in with the whites) who also had to go on the Trail of Tears. Measly hasn’t heard of this, and I don’t know if she cites her sources or not, so I’m going to look into it.

Another thing she says about how the Cherokee were trying to fit in was them creating a constitution like the white folks. Measly told me about the Five Nations and that they had their constitution before we ever got ours, and the whites got their ideas from their constitution called the Gayanashagowa (or “Great Law of Peace”). You can read more about this stuff here and here.

So I’m getting on the freeway this morning, and the 2 lanes have to merge right away. This is all fine and good as long as the meter isn’t on, which it wasn’t. Merging is like a zipper, one car on the left, one car on the right… So the car to the left goes and I go behind him… the left car behind me though was pissed off I went in front of him. I wasn’t sure why he was being such an ass, but he really didn’t want me in front of him. I sped up a bit to try to give him some room.

We were all going on the freeway and I decided that I better let him go in front of me since he was apparently in much more of a hurry than I was. I slowed a bit and didn’t see him pass, a different vehicle went by and I started to get over. But then there he was pretty much on top of my car, not letting me over. My right tires had to go up on the curb as I tried to slow so he’d go in front of me. He paced me for a while though.

Then finally he got in front of me and put his brakes on, so of course I had to as well so I wouldn’t hit him. Someone behind me honked and I honked at him. The whole thing scared the crap out of me so I decided to report him and called 911, which automatically goes to the CHP emergency number since I’m on the freeway. I should’ve memorized the guy’s plate though because he went a few lanes over and I couldn’t see it

The call was pretty much useless since I didn’t have the plate. UGH. I was mostly mad at first and the lady on the phone is telling me to keep my distance (probably so I won’t get shot) as I’m trying to get over to him to write it down. At the end of the call she asked my name… probably in case I ended up dead :p

I’m doing better now, but I was out of sorts for a couple hours after. It reminded me of a CSI episode.

In case you didn’t see the video of him being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, you can watch that here. As promised in the video, he put up the information on his website. In an email I got, MM says that he sent CNN an email with info the day before and I guess they just chose to ignore it.

I guess I’ll post this one. Don’t get your hopes up haha. Omg… the still pic for this is pretty funny.