Trying to Sing in the Rain

Commuting can be such a drag, especially by car.  Biking in the rain can get old pretty fast too.  Any way you travel, four-way stops are completely exasperating in this town, which is why we LOVE that Pemco commercial about them.  Luckily our lauded transit program TriMet is trying to make getting from point A to point B sans car just a tad easier.  They recently launched an improved multi-mode trip planner (pretty cool, indeed).  It still doesn't change the grim fact that Erin's commute via public transit would take (drum roll please)...121 minutes not including a 1/2 mile walk up a ginormous hill.  That works out to be slightly over 14 minutes per mile traveled, pretty close to the speed of walking.  Besides the obvious singing along with the radio, what other ways are there to brighten a dreary commute?