they wouldn't turn around and hate it
So I have this one playlist on my iPod that's about 1230 songs, because it's the one I set to shuffle and let play all day at my desk, and I like a lot of variety. There are quite a few songs that I like but don't want to hear every day on it, and for some reason, recently, the iPod has been playing those incessantly. I honestly do not need to hear Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland or Turning Japanese more than once a month (if that in the latter case), and yet every time I turn the thing on and start with a new song (to get it to reshuffle), those two songs (among others) come up. 1230 songs! Please play something different! (I know, I know, truly random means things will come up regardless of whether they came up in the last shuffle, but it seems like the iPod gets stuck on certain songs sometimes, and plays them over and over, and they are rarely the songs that I play over and over of my own volition.)
I am engaged in a titanic struggle of wills with my iPod. This amuses me tremendously.
(yes, I know I could just remove the songs from the playlist, or uncheck them, but that would be giving in! I refuse to do so! I want to hear them once every couple of months without having to resort to seeking them out on other playlists. Yes, I know I am irrational about this.)
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I finished reading Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship by Diane Schoemperlen on my commute this morning. I'm not sure what I think of this book - it had some lovely meditations on writing and truth and how we all shape the narratives of our lives and how writing is an act of faith, and it's a fast, easy read, but I also feel like there was really no there there. We never do get the narrator's story, except in vague terms, and Mary's visit is mostly a catalyst for all the ruminations on faith and history and truth - she's never really an active participant, even in the recountings of her various visitations over the centuries. I don't know - I don't remember where I picked this book up, but I'm pretty sure I expected some kind of rollicking "is she or isn't she?" con type of story where maybe in the end it turned out she was?, and this was...much quieter. Some lovely prose, and some interesting ideas, but not much of a story in the end.
In other book news, I am victoria.p on goodreads. The thing I am never sure of - am I supposed to respond to comments there? I haven't, and if I'm supposed to, I apologize, but I'm always so surprised when I get one that I don't know what to do.
*is socially awkward*
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I really want to talk about my summergen story and why it is making me a little crazy, but I can't. Meh. It is still amusing me, but once again, I am baffled by the external plotty bits. Sigh. One day plotting will make sense to me, won't it?
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I am engaged in a titanic struggle of wills with my iPod. This amuses me tremendously.
(yes, I know I could just remove the songs from the playlist, or uncheck them, but that would be giving in! I refuse to do so! I want to hear them once every couple of months without having to resort to seeking them out on other playlists. Yes, I know I am irrational about this.)
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I finished reading Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship by Diane Schoemperlen on my commute this morning. I'm not sure what I think of this book - it had some lovely meditations on writing and truth and how we all shape the narratives of our lives and how writing is an act of faith, and it's a fast, easy read, but I also feel like there was really no there there. We never do get the narrator's story, except in vague terms, and Mary's visit is mostly a catalyst for all the ruminations on faith and history and truth - she's never really an active participant, even in the recountings of her various visitations over the centuries. I don't know - I don't remember where I picked this book up, but I'm pretty sure I expected some kind of rollicking "is she or isn't she?" con type of story where maybe in the end it turned out she was?, and this was...much quieter. Some lovely prose, and some interesting ideas, but not much of a story in the end.
In other book news, I am victoria.p on goodreads. The thing I am never sure of - am I supposed to respond to comments there? I haven't, and if I'm supposed to, I apologize, but I'm always so surprised when I get one that I don't know what to do.
*is socially awkward*
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I really want to talk about my summergen story and why it is making me a little crazy, but I can't. Meh. It is still amusing me, but once again, I am baffled by the external plotty bits. Sigh. One day plotting will make sense to me, won't it?
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