WOOO BACK IN TO
I'm too tired to keep unpacking but I don't feel like sleeping just yet, so I'll make an LJ post!
The plane flight home was interesting. It got delayed a lot, first of all, because apparently the TO airport is undergoing some sort of construction and only one (!) runway was open, and since it was peak time, all departures and arrivals were slowing to a crawl. So we were already an hour late, and then I guess there was some weird weather system passing through town at the same time because the plane had to circle for ages instead of descending right away due to unusual turbulence.
Possibly because of how many delays there had been, the flight crew was unusually easygoing-- normally they ask us to take off headphones and so on, but this time there was no mention of it to anyone. Maybe the policy changed while I wasn't aware? Or maybe it was just a one-time thing. But anyway, as we were descending into the clouds over Toronto, I had a song from the TRON: Legacy soundtrack playing on my ipod. The song was Rectifier; I don't remember what scene it was from in the movie, but I imagine it was something involving the bad guys doing something impressively evil and visually spectacular. The music, of course, reflected that. The song starts off quiet and then builds to a crescendo partway through. This crescendo was neatly timed to coincide with the airplane finally coming down out of the clouds enough for me to catch a glimpse of Toronto at nighttime, spread out below us.
It was... beautiful. It's funny how powerful music can be sometimes, especially when combined with something as stunning as the increadible panorama of lights that I couldn't tear my eyes from through the entire descent. I found myself getting really excited for the landing-- for whatever comes after today, whatever adventures may come. It felt good, specially after all the uncertainty and self-doubt immediately following the end of classes and graduation. Hopefully I can find out how to keep this feeling!*
*It's kinda funny though because it's very, very evil music. It sounds like corruption and power long-unchallenged and impenetrable strongholds of cyberpunky darkness. WHY WAS THIS THE SONG THAT HIT ME.
I don't normally write stuff this introspective, but I want to remember this.
The plane flight home was interesting. It got delayed a lot, first of all, because apparently the TO airport is undergoing some sort of construction and only one (!) runway was open, and since it was peak time, all departures and arrivals were slowing to a crawl. So we were already an hour late, and then I guess there was some weird weather system passing through town at the same time because the plane had to circle for ages instead of descending right away due to unusual turbulence.
Possibly because of how many delays there had been, the flight crew was unusually easygoing-- normally they ask us to take off headphones and so on, but this time there was no mention of it to anyone. Maybe the policy changed while I wasn't aware? Or maybe it was just a one-time thing. But anyway, as we were descending into the clouds over Toronto, I had a song from the TRON: Legacy soundtrack playing on my ipod. The song was Rectifier; I don't remember what scene it was from in the movie, but I imagine it was something involving the bad guys doing something impressively evil and visually spectacular. The music, of course, reflected that. The song starts off quiet and then builds to a crescendo partway through. This crescendo was neatly timed to coincide with the airplane finally coming down out of the clouds enough for me to catch a glimpse of Toronto at nighttime, spread out below us.
It was... beautiful. It's funny how powerful music can be sometimes, especially when combined with something as stunning as the increadible panorama of lights that I couldn't tear my eyes from through the entire descent. I found myself getting really excited for the landing-- for whatever comes after today, whatever adventures may come. It felt good, specially after all the uncertainty and self-doubt immediately following the end of classes and graduation. Hopefully I can find out how to keep this feeling!*
*It's kinda funny though because it's very, very evil music. It sounds like corruption and power long-unchallenged and impenetrable strongholds of cyberpunky darkness. WHY WAS THIS THE SONG THAT HIT ME.
I don't normally write stuff this introspective, but I want to remember this.