robyn's not-so-infinite playlist*

I was on the road for five hours today, because I went to visit my "little" sister at college. (She's eleven years younger, but two inches taller than I.) With all that driving, I did a lot of listening in the car. Here's a sampling of some of the more notable things I heard:

• Kristin Chenoweth singing The Girl in 14G on A Prairie Home Companion

• Black Kids, I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You (A catchy song with slightly confusing lyrics. They sound uncannily like The Cure.)

• Ben Folds, You Don't Know Me

• Panic at the Disco**, Nine in the Afternoon

• Ravi Zacharias, A Fish Out of Water (Not a song, but riveting nonetheless.)
  

In addition to five hours of driving, I did about four hours of shopping with my sister. Aside from work clothes and neat-smelling body wash and stuff for use at the gym, I bought books. What? You're not surprised? Anyway, today Barnes & Noble provided me with Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (which will be my lunch break reading), and The Year of Living Biblically (which will be my at-home reading). That is, I will read those books after I finish The Gift of Asher Lev, which is taking me forever, but which I don't mind because I am savoring it.

So, that's enough of my rambling. I had a good weekend. I had fun with my sister. And now I'm going to eat and relax and read.

*Some of the songs I have listed may be way old, but I don't have a radio at home, and I generally listen to NPR in the car, so I'm particularly clueless about new music these days.

**Formerly, Panic! at the Disco. I miss the exclamation point. (!)