we now return to your regularly scheduled self-indulgent blog
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This morning I woke up at 9am to Billy Joel's "My Life" (see this post) stuck in my head, and after pancakes when I went back to sleep for a few hours (on the TV room floor beneath my new huge down blanket), I woke up around noon with something else stuck in my head. I remember thinking it was funny, two individually unique songs from eras before I was into music. I'm sure the whole Morning Song thing seems completely inane to everyone else -- it is -- but I wish I could convey to you how strong the song is in my head. When I am just surfacing through a fog of nonthought, when I am still struggling to reorient myself in my bed, let alone thinking anything concrete about the world around me just yet, I am already mentally singing a song, going over the lyrics or melody as though it were playing in the room with me. It is the only thing in my head when I wake up, some piece of music, usually something I have heard between two weeks and two months ago. Never what I was listening to when I went to bed. It is a weird experience, and so I have become mildly obsessed.
Anyway, enough babbling. It's now 4am. I work tomorrow at noon. I am off to try and find some sleep.
Wish me luck.
- How my Christmas went (what I got, what I gave, what I ate too much of, what I enjoyed and what I suffered through);
- How I feel after five days with my family and distance from my own life, such as it is;
- My review of the game Spore, which got a lot of attention in those five days;
- My thoughts on Ocean's Twelve, and why it disappoints and confounds me, despite everyone warning me how bad it is;
- My final opinion of the snow, and closure to the story of how it has laid waste to every holiday plan I made;
- Any reflection on the vague, meanderingly mopey inner monologue about being single, being a recluse, being a self-absorbed prick, being alone (all separate, if not entirely unrelated, things);
- Wondering what I'm going to do for New Year's Eve;
- Several dreams, at least two of which were hauntingly vivid;
- And many more!
This morning I woke up at 9am to Billy Joel's "My Life" (see this post) stuck in my head, and after pancakes when I went back to sleep for a few hours (on the TV room floor beneath my new huge down blanket), I woke up around noon with something else stuck in my head. I remember thinking it was funny, two individually unique songs from eras before I was into music. I'm sure the whole Morning Song thing seems completely inane to everyone else -- it is -- but I wish I could convey to you how strong the song is in my head. When I am just surfacing through a fog of nonthought, when I am still struggling to reorient myself in my bed, let alone thinking anything concrete about the world around me just yet, I am already mentally singing a song, going over the lyrics or melody as though it were playing in the room with me. It is the only thing in my head when I wake up, some piece of music, usually something I have heard between two weeks and two months ago. Never what I was listening to when I went to bed. It is a weird experience, and so I have become mildly obsessed.
Anyway, enough babbling. It's now 4am. I work tomorrow at noon. I am off to try and find some sleep.
Wish me luck.