blogging notes from today (most of this was written this morning and this afternoon, but I am just posting it now):
Okay, life is getting calmer, but I'm worried that my computer is picking up on my mood. It has started waking up in the middle of the night making noises, and then randomly giving me capital letters. Oh baby computer, just one more week and we will take you to the happy happy Apple Store of Omaha. Yeah, just one more week, one week from today I take my last exam and then drive half dead to Chattanooga. It will be beautiful and victorious and I will play We Are the Champions all the way.
Oh, so sad! I just talked to a girl who works at the coffee shop I frequent and she said that they were told recently that they couldn't bring in their own CD's because of copyright issues! And they now have to play the XM radio that Starbucks has! This is so sad, mainly because they are not playing the crazy mixture of M. Ward and Tom Waits anymore, but also because it robs this crazy coffee shop of the influence of its employees. It's less individual now, how can they do this? How will people know the music unless it gets played in coffee shops? We need albums, not stupid radio stations. What can we do about this? Google searching hasn't turned up anything about this atrocity in other coffee shops, or any public outrage. Okay, back to work.
One more thing:
I am in good company. In response to the second paragraph of this: Amen, Amen, and Amen. Etymology, man, oh my head!
Oh dear, I hope this never happens at the Espresso Royale at B.U. One time someone put on In the Aeroplane over the Sea, and it kept skipping, and the workers valiantly tried to save it (and our sanity) but to no avail. But their freedom to do that...I hope it's not taken from them. XM radio stinks. I had to deal with it when I worked at a coffeeshop in St. Louis.
Posted by: laura at December 8, 2006 8:09 PM