Mundanely Profound

I think 3 bitter political posts doesn't really attract anyone to read on, seeing how other blog posts I've read are happy cheerful posts about exciting lives. So, I will try to do more of that kind of stuff, it just makes me feel shallow writing about that stuff. If you know what a political news junkie that I am, and the types of liberalish employment that I have had, you would be surprised that every post isn't THE WORLD'S GOING TO SHIT, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or a variation of that theme.

From the lack of response both on blogs and e-mails it seems like my friends and well-wishers are all very busy, and I definitely don't blame them. I am right now in the middle of a last stretch of end of semester paper-writing. I got one big one done today... well by done I probably mean the worst paper I've ever written, but it came close to the minimum page limit! One more paper to go, a 20-pager, but 5 pages are written, and it is due tomorrow night, but I have no work and all day to write it tomorrow. But if I wanted to I could start it tonight! Just got to push myself, in 24 hours it will all be over and I can look around and realize I live in Chicago! Honestly, I didn't go to school for a whole year and half, but now it seems like I never lived without impossible papers due. I will definitely try to remember how much last-minute stuff I have to do when the next semester starts and I feel myself getting to lazy. I talked to my Dad on the phone today trying to come up with a reason I had so much to do so close to the due date, and he advised me to not try and think of a real reason I got to this point, sometimes it just happens. Which is good advice, because I'm not lazy. And I was only hungover about 4 out of 7 mornings out of a week. I made that last part up.

So, anyway, I have a list of about 10 or so albums I want to buy and who knows what kind of purchasing binge I'll go on now that I have a paycheck from my internship. Perfect timing for a record release tomorrow, though. The same day I turn in my last paper, is the day the new Nine Inch Nails album comes out! 6 years in the waiting! I actually was at first dissapointed in the first single The Hand That Feeds, and e-mailed Chris about my dissapointment. Now a few months later, I saw the video online and heard it a few more times, and now I'm liking it! I need some classic rage music! I can really identify with Trent Reznor's millionare middle-aged musician angst, exactly like my situation. Actually, I think NIN music hits you with its angry energy the first time, but then its really only suited for certain times and places and moods. It's been quite some time since I listened to The Fragile, the last poignant time I popped it in was in my dorm room after my roomate, 2 of my close college friends and another person, went out on a double date on a Saturday night. When your social circle abrubtly shrinks like that it was a release to pop NIN in and crank it up, because then you realize your not THAT angry. And then its all candy and flowers and peaches and cream.

SO, pop question? Is there music that you own that you cannot just play whenever, that if not played at the right time for the right reason, it just becomes a distraction?

Please humor me by posting something, I wore out my fingers typing this. Then again, it serves me right if no one responds, because I shouldn't do posting when I should be doing schoolwork. Shame on me.