Timelies all!

Got a cavity filled at the dentist this morning. Luckily, by lunchtime the numbness had worn off.

I don't do podcasts; people yammering when I'm trying to work makes me very nervous and irritable. So I used to drive my coworkers crazy playing whale songs and Dan Gibson's Solitude albums: rain, surf, trickling creeks, and birdsong. I can do music, but no lyrics because they get tangled up with text or what I'm working on. And a pounding beat will turn me snapping vicious.

I can't do podcasts or audiobooks if I need to pay attention to what I'm doing. Unless it's a book I'm already familiar with - I have cassettes of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter (thanks, msbelle!) in the car. I like music when I'm studying, but I'm like Bev - no lyrics because they get mixed in with the subject at hand.

Timelies! I'm checking in from gorgeous Halifax, where I've been having a lovely vacation. Tonight Sue kindly met up for drinks, dinner, and a delightful conversation. It was so nice to meet you, Sue!

Unless it's a book I'm already familiar with - I have cassettes of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter (thanks, msbelle!) in the car.

It's starting to get creepy how much we are the same person, because I am the same way -- I can't listen to an audiobook while I'm driving unless I've already read it. Otherwise I focus on it and not on the road, which is bad.

Otherwise I focus on it and not on the road, which is bad.

I tend to focus on the road and lose track of what's going on in the book. Which, if you'll forgive my saying, feels like the wiser choice.

Driving is one of those tasks where it takes just enough of my attention that other parts of my brain can get some good thinking done. Like how people get good ideas in the shower. Having a short commute might be messing with my ability to come up with solutions to my every day problems, come to think of it. Interesting.

I'll lose track of what I'm listening to and need to rewind in traffic or going somewhere unfamiliar, but on long stretches of interstate audiobooks are my friends.

-t is pretty much me, I just don't roadtrip much, so those long stretches that don't require much attention are rare, especially with how bad our traffic's gotten.

When I was still in school and had to go to a campus 30ish miles away, I listened to a few books on the drives, but, thankfully haven't had a regular commute of that length in a while. I may never finish Tess of the D'urbervilles.

I like listening to some podcasts while driving, but I haven't tried driving while listening to books.