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rubahI don't like this one:OO
heh, we lost. 49-6. It was cold, and their field/stands sucked (clinton's). I was amused a couple of times when the announcer called the name Casey Bates out ("what, caseybaito what?") but apart from that and the free coke, it wasn't anything special.
Heh. After we learned the passé composé in french class, I feel so much more. . . liberated in my use of the language. We had a quiz on the first part of chapter 9 today, and the last bit was a writing part. I fudged some of the grammar and stuff like I always do, but it seemed like it came a lot more easily this time. (we had to describe a fictional weekend we had really enjoyed).
This song is sorta neat.
Man, I really need to burn a new cd for my car. <3J was awesome for like, months, but ANDCFANM just. . .sucks. There's too many songs I don't want to listen to inbetween the ones I do. at least with <3j I had some good runs that I could listen to without changing tracks. I can listen through 4-9, but I almost always skip 10. And then after 12 there's more that I always skip. and I never listen to the first three tracks.
The concept of "runs" in a musical collection is important. The songs have more sense of form if you know what comes next. This is why people use playlists. Random selection is fine, but even with utter perfection, I find myself skipping tracks that I don't feel like listening to at that time. When I discovered how to get my cd player to play playlists, it was like a Godsend.
Of course, with playlist.m3u and utter perfection - WIP.m3u, there is a duality about which song to expect next. Depending on which I've been listening to (lately, my master playlist. I havent' updated UP lately), I might expect a song that did not make the UP cut.
But then again, one of the things about using music for entertainment is that we get too good at multitasking it with other things. Our hands reach for the controls partially because we are displeased with what is passing into our ears, but also not doing anything else bores us. Being used to listening to music constantly, when we find ourselves restricted to just that, it's rather like having to sit and stare at a wall. Of course tonight, I picked songs I knew how to sing decently well, so I passed time singing low enough that no one complained.
This may be why kids like their cellphones. They're too accustomed to dealing with ordinary life, that these small devices allow their fingers to be busy with something they only need to pay half attention to. They waste their money sending useless text messages, their batteries taking silly pictures they delete immediately, et cetera. And really it's because they're bored, and they
(it's a testament to the volume level on schoobuses at night with 50 people and headphones at 28/40 volume level that I seem to be suffering from the tell-tale syndrome of tenninitis-- ringing ear-- right now)
don't seem to be interested in the old ways of keeping hands occupied by doing productive things. That was something I liked about crocheting that poncho; when I was bored, instead of sitting, I could sit and let my hands move.
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