The song I’m listening to now, “Trouble”, just seems perfect for an optimistic Sunday morning. <\/p>\n
My mood has improved immeasurably since my last post. Things haven’t gotten better, technically, by my outlook has. A while ago I decided that I’d start doing a lot of work. At first, the plan backfired, as it seemed like the more time I put into studies, the worse things got. But my new work ethic has finally started to pay dividends, at least psychologically: I finally feel like I’m here for something<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Events of the last few days: St. Patrick’s party, soccer, watching UConn’s run to the Big East Championship with Umesh (which included a trip to the famed Cheese Board; the pizza was delicious, as advertised), and a great conversation with Meg and Leland last night. I was planning on finishing my taxes (I was serious when I said I’m focusing on work!), but they gave me a call and we ended up talking forever at Mondo Gelato. They’re awesome friends.<\/p>\n
Speaking of taxes, so I did finish them, and it turns out that the government owes me like $900. This would have been great, except that I kind of got carried away buying CDs last night, offsetting much of this gain. I have this weird CD-buying technique by which I resist buying CDs for as long as possible (keeping a list of albums I want) and then finally break down and buy them all.
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\nNot sure why I’m documenting this; I guess I feel that if I document something so foolish, perhaps it’ll acquire some respectability. <\/p>\n
I went through my usual channels: buy.com, deepdiscountcds.com, secondspin.com, half.com, columbiahouse.com. Between those five, you can usually find a disc for pretty cheap. <\/p>\n
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 \r\nBlur Parklife \r\nBlur Blur \r\nCat Power Moon Pix \r\nFuture Bible Heroes Memories Of Love \r\nFuture Bible Heroes Eternal Youth \r\nIdlewild 100 Broken Windows \r\nJerry Cantrell Degradation Trip \r\nJoni Mitchell Blue \r\nLush Lovelife \r\nLush Split \r\nLynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping \r\nMoby Play \r\nMy Bloody Valentine Loveless \r\nOk Go Ok Go \r\nOpeth Still Life \r\nOpeth Deliverance \r\nPrimal Scream Screamdelica \r\nQueens of the Stone Age Songs For The Deaf (Deluxe Edition) \r\nSmashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness\r\nThe Stone Roses Second Coming \r\nThe Verve Urban Hymns \r\nTonic Sugar \r\n<\/pre>\nIt’s a combination of CDs that I know well but never got around to buying (Primal Scream, Idlewild, etc.), ones that I’ve meant to get for a long time (Aphex Twin, The Verve, etc.) and then just random ones by artists I like or that I heard were good. For the record (har har), it came to $7.91 per CD :)<\/p>\n
I actually have an interesting topic I’d like to discuss, but I don’t have the time (brunch ends in 20 minutes). Maybe later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The song I’m listening to now, “Trouble”, just seems perfect for an optimistic Sunday morning. My mood has improved immeasurably since my last post. Things haven’t gotten better, technically, by my outlook has. A while ago I decided that I’d … Continue reading