The man got meh down, ah tells ya!

Well, in a pleasant yet unpleasant turn of events, the low point of my summer has already been reached and a mere two weeks have passed. The bad news is that my low point was receiving a speeding ticket: while hurrying to make my friend's graduation party I was caught on the ring-road around Indianapolis, highway 465, doing... fast... in a slow zone. The Indianapolis police, as I only found out after the fact, are scamming the good people of Indiana by intentionally passing out as many tickets as possible to collect revenue. Whats more, they have created a system wherein if you dispute your ticket you are liable for as much as $4500 in additional fees, regardless of circumstance- and while I know I was breaking the law and will not be disputing my ticket, it really is a huge F*** You to people wrongly accused of speeding. Furthermore, the system used to pay the tickets is an online system where it can take as many as six weeks to process the ticket and find out the cost of the fee (it is not printed on the ticket as per the norm) and you are only given 60 days to pay the ticket from the date issued, not the date you find out the cost. Obviously, bad news.

The good news is that it should be all uphill from here! If this is my low point, I should have nothing to look forward to but good news for the rest of the summer. Lucky for me, today I received a request for a second interview and managed to apply for a dozen or so other jobs across the country. With any luck and some karma for passing my 'low point' I should hear back from every single one of these jobs with a request that I appear in person to receive a 10 million dollar signing bonus and an undisclosed prospect from the minors.

Beatles today? Yes. This time it is yet another song that most readers will not have heard: Blue Jay Way. This trippy little ditty proudly sat on the grooves of the 'Magical Mystery Tour' LP and was written by the Beatles most under-appreciated songwriter, Mr. George Harrison. Based on his real experiences staying with a friend who lived on Blue Jay Way up in the Hollywood hills outside LA, it was a typically George song. George once approached Paul about 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da' and said something to the extent of "you know none of those people are real, right?" This was telling of his songwriting personality at the time; he did not understand the concept that anyone would write a song that was complete fiction with made up stories and characters, all of his work was related to real life concepts and things happening to him at the time and Blue Jay Way was no exception. Blue Jay Way applies today because it has a classic 'true-to-life' George line that ever so calmly and coolly snaps at 'the man', the same man who got me down this weekend.


"There's a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
We'll be over soon they said
Now they've lost themselves instead.
Please don't be long please don't you be very long
Please don't be long or I may be asleep
Well it only goes to show
And I told them where to go
Ask a policeman on the street
There's so many there to meet"