Coachella-itis

Coachella is T-minus 3 days! It's finally hitting me that my friends and I are going to trek out to the dessert and live it up all weekend. My friends and I divvied up responsibilities. Someone handled lodgings. Someone else handled ordering tickets. I will handle gas, et al. Most importantly I will also handle picking up our tickets from the Goldenvoice office!

I shot down La Cienega toward Wilshire on my lunch break. Of course the infamous food trucks were swarming all over the boulevard! Traffic galore when I'm in a rush, naturally! To top it all off I get rear-ended as I am backing into street parking because some guy was so mesmerized by the food trucks and didn't see me easing in. (Nothing serious. The scrape can be detailed out, I'm sure).

30 minutes to spare. I speed walk to the Goldenvoice building, head up the north elevator and, voila, I am next in line to pick up my coveted massive envelope. As my paperwork is being "processed" I look around the table at the different Coachella posters and handouts. That is when I see a Kindle nesting to the side. I ask the girl at the table if the Kindle was hers. Affirmative.

Mina has been reading books on her Kindle while manning the Coachella ticket pick-up table. Great way to pass the time in between transactions. She recently got her new gadget a few months ago. It was a gift to herself courtesy of her tax return. Mina's already read 5 novels on it so far. Now she is reading The Impressionist. "It's a good book and it was free so I can't complain." It was also a Book of the Month. Mina likes to download the Book of the Month recommendations. "They tend to be free so why not, right? I do buy a few books here and there. I normally don't spend more than $9 though."

(The Kindle with the Virginia Woolf screensaver)

Mina admits that she enjoys the feel of physical books and, like many book fiends, she was skeptical about the Kindle. Then one of her friends got one and Mina took it for a test drive. She was instantly hooked! "The device just felt right. It was light and easy to use. Plus I can have a whole library at my fingertips. It's just simple and convenient."

She was looking at Barnes and Noble's Nook but she thought it was too complicated and too high tech. Also, it just wasn't visually appealing. I asked her about the iPad because it was the hot commodity on everyone's minds these past few months.
"I know, I considered the iPad but I already have an iPhone, I have a Macbook...I didn't feel like I needed another item from the Apple family. Plus, the Kindle is simple and perfect for what I need."