"What a Good Boy"
I took the subway to and from work today, which I don't often do anymore. R had a late night at work lined up, and I didn't feel like waiting around, and I don't like her to have to take the subway late at night, so I did.
Taking the subway is cool once in a while, if for no other reason than I get to use my iPod a little more often than I do now. When I was in grad school and the first year I worked, I took the subway every day to get where I was going, and that equaled a lot of quality time with the iPod.
After the first year, I realized that the life of an assistant professor is often not synched up well with the train schedule, and so in year two, I started driving to and from work. This makes much more sense now, since R and I work at the same place and can commute together. Anyway, the end result is that we are often in the car together, and I am not using the iPod in the car for the relatively short commute that the car allows. We are usually talking with either NPR or the local sports radio station on.
Anyway, the point is that I forget how much I enjoy the iPod. Today I was using my tiny iPod Shuffle, which basically just plays songs in random order. Since it has no screen, you have no way to know what's coming up next, so it is like a little surprise. I have embraced Apple's marketing on the subject, and have taken to the 'life is random' advertising slogan that they use.
Today, on the walk home from the subway, I ended up listening to "What a Good Boy" from the Barenaked Ladies album "Gordon". I haven't listened to BNL in a while, and never really paid attention to this particular song before, but the lyrics struck me today, and I have been listening to it on repeat for hours now.
"I wake up scared, I wake up strange.
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
and everything around me stays the same."
Yeah, that really sums it up for me today.
Taking the subway is cool once in a while, if for no other reason than I get to use my iPod a little more often than I do now. When I was in grad school and the first year I worked, I took the subway every day to get where I was going, and that equaled a lot of quality time with the iPod.
After the first year, I realized that the life of an assistant professor is often not synched up well with the train schedule, and so in year two, I started driving to and from work. This makes much more sense now, since R and I work at the same place and can commute together. Anyway, the end result is that we are often in the car together, and I am not using the iPod in the car for the relatively short commute that the car allows. We are usually talking with either NPR or the local sports radio station on.
Anyway, the point is that I forget how much I enjoy the iPod. Today I was using my tiny iPod Shuffle, which basically just plays songs in random order. Since it has no screen, you have no way to know what's coming up next, so it is like a little surprise. I have embraced Apple's marketing on the subject, and have taken to the 'life is random' advertising slogan that they use.
Today, on the walk home from the subway, I ended up listening to "What a Good Boy" from the Barenaked Ladies album "Gordon". I haven't listened to BNL in a while, and never really paid attention to this particular song before, but the lyrics struck me today, and I have been listening to it on repeat for hours now.
"I wake up scared, I wake up strange.
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change.
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
and everything around me stays the same."
Yeah, that really sums it up for me today.
posted by Professor B at 10:47 PM
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