Ah, the beauty of a great city. The culture. The variety of restaurants. The safety of a great city with a great police force. Naperville.
And the very fact it's smack in the middle of suburbia where the traffic commute to work is like army ants coming out of the Costa Rican jungles.
I have to travel a mere 13 miles, but my commute is on average 45 minutes.
It's less than a week and I'm constantly plotting a new route, hitting co-workers for tips, and ignoring one co-worker: you just learn to accept it as fact and go with it.
Having an iPod listening to music, and better yet podcasts does add to the 'value' of a long drive. The irony of it all is trying to listen to a sermon about patience and suffering while you're hitting the wheel at the sight of traffic. How's that for a bit of irony?
If anything it makes me pray more.