Monthly Archives: April 2008

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This is my day x about 7000. I’m entering statistics for field mice… yup, field mice. You know these things are very important. Important enough that if I weren’t entering the data the professor’s assistant, that makes much more than I, would be entering them. Oh, yeah… he knows what these things mean and why the fuck we are entering hours and hours of data about *dramatic pause* field mice.


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Fortunately I have installed iTunes and am currently (well when I started this thing) listening to the old school punk channel that is likely driving co-workers batty. Maybe they can find the bats and study them. Maybe they can just determine if they are nesting in my brain or merely circling until they deem it safe to set up permanent residence.


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Have you ever noticed when faced with the mundane, like data entry, you tend to put the keystrokes in a pattern that makes a rhythm? You can immediately tell if you’ve screwed up by the sound. Then the bats start comin straight for your freakin head and you know you really fucked it all up because you disturbed their sleep. Maybe Christian Baile will come rescue me…. In that case….


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Today I heard a memory. I had this feeling in my heart of a song that an old friend played for me once. I used to beg him to play it for me all the time and for whatever reason he couldn’t seem to find it. I never knew the name of the song and I couldn’t understand the lyrics, but I loved it. I wanted to hear it again. Maybe it was the lyrics that kept him from playing it for me. We had that relationship… you know that relationship. the kind that isn’t really a relationship at all. More a friendship gone down a side-street that’s dark and windy and damp. I found that song today.


…And maybe someday I will say
I’ll say please, please
Don’t tear your heart from me
Cause it was a crime I never told about the diamonds in your eyes
It’s a crime I never told you about the diamonds in your eyes


And maybe someday we will be
Away with the wind we’ll go
By the sea we’ll float
And away with the wind we’ll go
A million miles away
And you’ll say maybe someday we will be
And you’ll say please please
Don’t tear your heart from me
Away with the wind we’ll go
By the sea we’ll float
Away with the wind we’ll blow
By the sea we’ll float
Down along the way
Down along the way


like I said, not the best lyrics… but maybe poignant at the time.


hhhmmm so many songs… I hear songs in my head for everything. It’s almost like the “soundtrack for your life game” where you take your iPod and put it on shuffle all. Then you have this list of questions in front of you that as you get to the question you hit the next button to see what the song is. What song, will be the soundtrack for that question. I have something like an iPod in my brain. My auditory cortex came complete with a digital recording device with mass amounts of storage…. Way more than the measly 160 gigs you can get on an iPod right now. My own personal shuffling system that reads my mood and senses what I need to hear in the depths of my despair or to kick my ass right out of it. What will I shuffle into next? My battery is low. Maybe I’ll see what happens after I plug it in.