Thursday, May 01, 2003
 

Two down, one to go. But there's a lot of that one to go, both in terms of research and writing. I've got an extension, but still. I want to avoid an incomplete. So many people have already finished up, and I saw their relief today when I met up with some of them for a meeting. And I'm 2/3 done. 1/3 more to do is a lot. There's a party tomorrow night and a huge one Friday, and I just hate having this stuff hanging over my head. It's my own fault, I suppose. But, honestly, the insomnia isn't helping. I have zero attention span and zero powers of concentration.

I do, however, have an amusing insomnia story. A couple of nights ago (I lose track, honestly) I realized, in some sort of sleepy stupor, that it had been an incredibly long time since I'd heard "Walk the Dinosaur" (gee, wonder why). So I turned to Kazaa Lite, which should not be on my computer, and located it. This activity quickly blew out of all proportion, and I ended up downloading an insane number (I haven't counted, because I don't want to know) of 80s classics.

It's an odd experience. I didn't listen to popular radio when I was a kid, so everything I heard, I heard at school or from friends (or when we had babysitters who watched MTV, which I loved). It's like recovering a lot of things from the edge of my mind; in most cases, I didn't know all the words of the song to begin with, couldn't have told you the artist.

I am discovering, though, that there are some tunes that still sound mighty fine indeed. These include "Hold Me Now" and "I Drove All Night" in particular. My neighbors have probably heard enough of those now. I ended up with a lot of Thompson Twins, lots of Cyndi Lauper, and a somewhat embarassing amount of Debbie Gibson. Among many, many, many other things.

I mainly use Kazaa when I get in moods to hear certain things; hence, I have a seriously weird collection of stuff (though I'm sure that Batty could put me to shame on that point). Today, tracks from the following artists have been uploaded from my computer:

The Geto Boyz
Enya
My Main Man Dwight
Iron Maiden

Things are a bit random round the ol' corral.

It's storming outside. It's quite lovely. My lights just flickered, though, which could be A Bad Thing.

Elvisette philosophized at 3:16 PM