Sometimes I wonder about my thought processes.

I spend a lot of time in my car. Between my daily commutes to and from work, my weekly drives to my aunt’s, etc., I have a lot of time think. And there are many times I’ll be driving along and all of a sudden I’ll think of something, and wonder to myself, “why am I thinking about this?” A good example of this happened last weekend.

Just a small warning. This will sound very…geekish. You’ve had your warning.

I was driving on the freeway with my windows down, as I am known to do, with the music playing loudly. I noticed that the wind noise had the effect of suppressing the higher frequencies of the music, sort of as if someone covered your ears with a scarf. That suddenly reminded me of this girl I very briefly dated back in college. How? Read on.

That incident reminded me of an incident a few years back coming out of a loud club with Mike, Laura and some other people (I still don’t know what happened to that skirt). I think it was Halloween. Anyway, I made a comment to the gang that I felt like someone placed a low-pass filter in between my ears. That lead me to remember that shortly after that comment, I made a phone call to the girl, where her mom had informed me that she had already left for the party I was headed to. This in turn, reminded me of the time she drove down to my place and we watched Saving Private Ryan after I kicked my roommate out for the evening. *happy sigh*

Those were good times. I wonder what she’s up to these days. Hopefully she’s doing well. I’ll have to give her a ring next time I’m back in town.