General musings before a week of "vacation"
I'm leaving tomorrow for a week of science camp after having flown to and back from LA on Saturday for a flute competition. It should be fun -- it's for my old elementary school (Weibel love!), and I've wanted to do science camp counseling since sophomore year. Hopefully it won't rain TOO much (I've already accepted the fact that it'll rain at least some), and hopefully my kids are cute and moderately well-behaved. I'm also hoping for some cell phone reception up in the mountains, but I'm not expecting much in that area.
I also wanted to take this opportunity to lament the downfall of two things I once loved: Limewire and radio.
To be honest, you can't use Limewire to find any kind of music anymore. (Okay, it's illegal, but it was still a very constant presence in my music-pirating lifestyle!) When I search for well-known files, I get hundreds of search results, but almost all of them are "corrupt" files that don't play. And when I search for slightly more obscure things... Yesterday I was looking for some Polly Paulusma and I turned up results like "Cat vs Baby" and "Steven Spielberg gets pranked." WHY?!
As for the radio, I have nothing to say except that it's incredibly frustrating trying to find something good to listen to on the radio. Either it's a commercial or it's some music that I... dislike. Not to be mean, but seriously, who actually enjoys songs like that "Murderer" or the one that goes "I wanna be your girlfriend" over and over again? Neither of them make any sense or have very much artistic merit. If it hurts you so much to cheat on your boyfriend, um... try not doing it. And you really couldn't think of better lyrics than "I don't like your girlfriend/I think you need a new one/I wanna be your girlfriend"? (Those may or may not be accurate.) Sigh. Now I feel like a pretentious snob. Not all radio is bad, really.
(I just realized this sounds quite a bit like some Alanator Enquirer... yikes! Kidding, Alan. Ent love forever.)
Time to pack. Good luck to everyone during the most exciting (and possibly painful) week of the year: college admission results and the beginnings of "promposals." Yes, exciting! Too bad I won't be here. I delegate my noisy duties in gov/econ to our "little corner." Be louder to make up for my absence!
I also wanted to take this opportunity to lament the downfall of two things I once loved: Limewire and radio.
To be honest, you can't use Limewire to find any kind of music anymore. (Okay, it's illegal, but it was still a very constant presence in my music-pirating lifestyle!) When I search for well-known files, I get hundreds of search results, but almost all of them are "corrupt" files that don't play. And when I search for slightly more obscure things... Yesterday I was looking for some Polly Paulusma and I turned up results like "Cat vs Baby" and "Steven Spielberg gets pranked." WHY?!
As for the radio, I have nothing to say except that it's incredibly frustrating trying to find something good to listen to on the radio. Either it's a commercial or it's some music that I... dislike. Not to be mean, but seriously, who actually enjoys songs like that "Murderer" or the one that goes "I wanna be your girlfriend" over and over again? Neither of them make any sense or have very much artistic merit. If it hurts you so much to cheat on your boyfriend, um... try not doing it. And you really couldn't think of better lyrics than "I don't like your girlfriend/I think you need a new one/I wanna be your girlfriend"? (Those may or may not be accurate.) Sigh. Now I feel like a pretentious snob. Not all radio is bad, really.
(I just realized this sounds quite a bit like some Alanator Enquirer... yikes! Kidding, Alan. Ent love forever.)
Time to pack. Good luck to everyone during the most exciting (and possibly painful) week of the year: college admission results and the beginnings of "promposals." Yes, exciting! Too bad I won't be here. I delegate my noisy duties in gov/econ to our "little corner." Be louder to make up for my absence!