I often get off work fairly late so it is already dark on my drive home. There’s always one thing that annoys me while driving at night: headlights.

It seems like headlights have gotten brighter over the years, especially with the new cars. I’m not sure why they feel the need to make the headlights blinding for newer cars. Maybe they think it makes them safer? However, I can assure you that it produces the opposite effect.

I understand the need for headlights but is it really a good idea to make them so bright that other drivers have trouble concentrating on the road due to the insane amount of light in their view?

As we head into the fall we also head into one of my favorite times of the year. This is a time when big title video games are released and one of my new favorites series comes out in October — “Batman Arkham Origins.”

The game takes place five years before “Arkham Asylum” which was the very first game. In this game, you will be a freshly sculpted Batman.

The gang leader/villain is the Black Mask. He has put a bounty on your head as it falls to Christmas eve and eight assassins have come in to Gotham City to take down the Batman.

The Treasury Department informed U.S. lawmakers that if they hadn’t reached an agreement by Oct. 17 regarding the government shutdown, financial obligations that were already voted on and approved would have gone into default.

The U.S. came very close to having its credit rating lowered. Again.

The government shutdown cost taxpayers $160 million per day and if America’s credit rating had been lowered, the increase in interest rates would have added billions more to that number.

If a shutdown costs so much money, then why was Congress so determined not to pass a clean continuing resolution?

So the other day I had to do one of the things that no man should ever have to do. No not the one you are thinking. The other. I had to buy makeup.

No I was not high on anything or dared to do it. I actually had to buy it for one of my acting classes.

Let me tell you, that was just a lot of fun — not.

I didn’t enjoy the experience one bit.

Recently it has come to notice that the school and teachers are starting to switch to Connect, “a digital teaching and learning environment that saves students and instructors time while improving performance over a variety of critical outcomes,” according to the Connect website.

At first I didn’t have a problem with this program. I thought it was a great way for students to do homework and it was eco-friendly too. But lately, a question has crossed my mind.

Why do I have to pay for this connect code?

I am already paying tuition and for overpriced books that will be outdated by the end of the semester and for which I will not be able to get half of my money back on.

And now, add to that, I pay for a code.

Ever since I was little, I’ve liked to write. My teachers would read my papers and say “you will write a novel someday,” and I planned on it.

As I got older, those dreams were put aside as reality set in. In junior high I joined band and continued through high school. When it came time for college, I auditioned for a music scholarship at the University of Oklahoma after being convinced to do so by my private instructor who, at the time, was a professor there. I received a music scholarship but there was a catch: I had to be a music major. While music was fun and all, it was not my passion and I could not see myself doing it as a career.

A blog post by another of our great staff writers, Grant Vanwinkle, kind of got me inspired to write my own blog. Grant was talking about how excited he is for the next installment of “The Hunger Games” movie trilogy. I myself am not a fan of of “The Hunger Games,” but I realize a lot of people are. The series was massively successful and, for that reason, I’m led to believe that something about the book and subsequent movie adaption must be enchanting or engaging even though neither really did much to entertain me.

I often feel like I’ve been cast to the social wayside when I just can’t get into something that someone else loves. However, I’ve discovered that while I generally like the premise of something (“The Hunger Games,” for example), my expectations for the greatness that it could encompass just aren’t met by the material that is there.

Today I got my first speeding ticket. I was already running late to work due to my dentist appointment taking longer than expected and I was trying to get to school as soon as possible.

As I was driving down May Avenue, a cop car on the opposing side of the road flashed on his lights and turned his vehicle around to get in my lane. A quick look in my rearview mirror confirmed no other cars were around me; therefore, I was his victim.

I quickly pulled over to the side of the road, just less than a block shy from the school. Almost made it.

So recently the magnificent Netflix has done it again. They have outdone themselves. They have made available one of my favorite shows from when I was a little kid — ”Digimon.”

When I first saw “Digimon” was in the Netflix lineup, I could barely believe it. It was almost like I was 9- years-old again, and would come home every day from school, and sit and watch the digidestined as they are called on the show every Monday through Friday.

Welcome to the new age.

I listen to music about 96 percent of the time I am alive. I didn’t say awake because I even listen to music within my very own dreamland.

I listen to the radio in my car daily. Actually, I am in my car more often than I wish due to this funny thing called life and the places I have to travel to that hold my paychecks hostage to live said life.