what fortuitous circumstance be this?
So I'm at the Donkey, minding my own business and working on my paper for our Out of the Dust presentation, when the Bright Eyes CD ends and is replaced with a CD by Woody Guthrie, or maybe Willie Nelson. "Oh, how neat," I thought, "it's all old-fashioned and countrified and it fits in perfectly with the paper I'm writing."
And then, suddenly, he's singing about dust storms, and more specifically, about the same April 14, 1935 dust storm featured in one of the poems in Out of the Dust. And then he keeps singing about dust storms and Tom Joad and all kinds of apropos things.
I decide that this is a good time to go get my hot chocolate and surreptitiously check out the music display on the wall. It's Woody Guthrie, all right, and the album is called Dust Bowl Ballads. I abandon the play-it-cool approach and squee a little bit to the barista (baristo? It was a guy...) about how I'm doing a project tomorrow morning on a young adult novel set in the Dust Bowl and how awesome it would be if I had that song, so could I maybe borrow the CD and upload it to my PC? And he was way ahead of me--he pretty much insisted that I copy it and use it, making him The Most Awesome Baristo Ever.
So as soon as it's done playing, I get to pilfer it and put it on my iTunes, then burn it to a CD and see if we can squeeze it into our presentation tomorrow. I shot off an email to my group about the CD, and now I'm checking my mail every two seconds to see if they got it. It's super-short notice, and we've already got the Powerpoint made (and mine's the shortest section, which worries me little), but seriously, how long does it take to add in a slide? Plus, multimedia is always a win with presentations. We're required to have a film clip, but Elizabeth's also got sheet music (the main character plays piano), and if we had a song, too? We would pwn. Also, I think my write-up for the lit-theory part is really good. Like, better than two-thirds of my tutorial papers ever were. So...I'm feeling pretty good.
Except that I haven't studied for my history test tomorrow, and there are so many names and dates and acronyms to mix up. Plus I had a dream last night that it was 1:00 and I hadn't studied and class was at 2:00. Which wasn't stressful or anything, oh no. *sigh*
Right, the CD is over now, replaced by...apparently by a reggae cover of Bill Withers's "Ain't No Sunshine," which is way fun.