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"Hey CG!s, I&amp;#039;m an intern at CG! this summer, and I commute from Staten Island. This means I spend at least three hours of every workday on a bus, train or boat. It&amp;#039;s totally worth it, but a girl&amp;#039;s gotta have something to do besides people-watch. On top of that, it&amp;#039;s summer, and summer means weekend road trips. This weekend while \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 on a train, I realized just how much of our time is spent traveling. So I put together a list of my favorite ways to pass the time while I get wherever I&amp;#039;m going. 1. The radio. This is my personal favorite. I love straying away from songs I always listen to on my iPod. (Just for a bit, though. I can&amp;#039;t go long without John Mayer.) There&amp;#039;s nothing like the surprise of hearing a song you love come on the radio. This is even better if you&amp;#039;re in a city where you don&amp;#039;t know the stations well, and you constantly change the dial to fight the battle with static. 2. A CD you haven&amp;#039;t heard in a while. My friend Heather and I listened to a mix CD I made a few summers ago when we drove down to the shore. Belting out songs you used to love is a blast. If you don&amp;#039;t have any old mix CDs, a Backstreet Boys (or NSYNC, if you prefer) album circa 2001 will do the trick. 3. A book. This works best for me while taking mass transportation. I&amp;#039;m pretty sure no one on the subway will attempt to steal my advanced copy of Derby Girl. (Perk of being a CG! intern: reading cool books before they come out. I definitely recommend you read this one!)  4. The DVD player in your parents&amp;#039; minivan. This is good when you and your siblings agree that watching seasons of Friends is the best way to spend a 13-hour drive to your family&amp;#039;s vacation destination. It&amp;#039;s bad when you are overruled by your siblings into watching seasons of the most annoying (not naming any names) TV show of all time. This is when I resort to my iPod. 5. The iPod. It&amp;#039;s always reliable. Just remember to charge it, and make sure your headphones are comfy. I want to know what keeps you occupied on long (or short) trips. Maybe I&amp;#039;ll use your ideas tomorrow on the ferry :) Love, Jaimie Dalessio CG! intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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