many years ago, when my job happened to involve planes and monster trucks, and we had been playing multiplayer monster truck madness in the afternoon before leaving work, i would get in my car and feel very inclined to drive fast and not concern myself with what i hit. completely like living inside a racing game. you get immersed in it and then go into the real world and it carries over.

so last night, i had that moment again. my job current involves maps. lots of them, interesting ideas about them, maps maps maps maps maps. it's really fun. but i was getting on the freeway, and as i turned, thinking about the signal light timing i had the strangest and very real sensation of "i'm driving in a MAP". that might seem crazy, or obvious, but it was a very odd feeling. just like the weird monster truck euphoria of days of old.

more strange, this month marks my 10th year here. minus about a year of freelancing. but monster trucks and planes began in 1996. when i was the first one in the entire business unit to be hired to spend *all my time* working on web stuff. if i want to be big headed about it, i can say that now hundreds of people do the job i used to do. hahaha. i'm sure they'd all appreciate me seeing it that way.