if you know me, then you probably also know my tendancy for obsessive songs. i hear a song, i like it or it fits some feeling i’m currently having, and i listen to it basically non-stop for a few days until the mood has passed or i move on to a new song. the interesting part is when i hear a song months or years after the short period that it was the obsessive song. it’s funny how songs can bring back memories or feelings.
last night as i was running, angie aparo’s “alone” came up on my mp3 player. before i knew it, i was reliving late nights in durand, working on some homework assignment up in the 4th floor study lounge, finally finishing, and standing alone in the darkened hall by the elevators. i would listen to that song on my way out of the building, and on the bike ride home. and despite the fact that it’s a fairly upbeat song, it would calm me down enough to fall asleep in peace.
anyway. memories. i was talking to nick last night, and he suggested we both just go back to stanford, and he could dance while i got my ph.d. i said “there are some days when that’s all i want to do.” i think i would go back this year, or next, if not for one thing–the fact that committing four years of my life (to getting a ph.d.) scares me.
another cool thing happened while i was running last night. i passed two guys working in the garage on what was obviously some sort of flying contraption–they had a bike in the middle, with the structure (wing spars and airfoil sections) of an airplane. curiosity took over immediately, and i stopped to see what they were building. they jokingly said “uh oh, can’t you tell what it is?” i said “well it’s obviously an airplane of some kind, but what’s it for?” turns out they are building it for the texas flugtag that’s in austin on april 26. this is one of those events where people build man-powered flying contraptions and hurl them off a ramp into the unsuspecting waters 30 feet below. we had been talking about it at work already, and it was excited to find someone in my own apartment complex building a contraption. a few of us have already signed up to run a race on the 26th, but we may also head over to austin after it’s done to catch the flugtag. becca went to one in switzerland and says it’s quite an entertaining time. we’ll see.
tonight i’ve got volleyball practice followed by a softball game, assuming the rain holds off. knock on wood. it looks a bit bleak outside right now.
no one on my fantasy baseball team has hit a home run in like a week. crazy guys.
