Bizarro Tuned In Day

Another posting for the day - its VERY quiet here at work - and I need to build some interest and credibility for this blog before its discovered by the masses. I think I'm sticking with observations - perhaps observations of the day. Those quirky things that occur when you least expect it...

I'm walking to work this morning, listening to my Ipod. Its on random shuffle - I'm stopping on Green Day and clicking past Dido because I'm having a Green Day kind of day. Up comes "Let Me Clear My Throat" (not by Green Day, but nevertheless) - remember this one? Well, its all I can do not to break it down in the middle of Farrugut Square. Restraining my itchy leg, I am suddenly aware of the city noises and how they so craftily mix with the music. A passing ambulance, the random cell phone conversation. A homeless guy was even hacking up some phlegm just when DJ Kool was telling me "... it goes a little something like this..." For a minute, I thought the whole city was tuned into my I-pod! Its interesting how music can be transformed by ambient sounds. Each time you listen to the same song, you'll have a unique experience - making your day a little less predictable. Maybe there is less of a reason to try drowning out the world than you thought
(http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/12/30/ear.ipod.protect.reut/index.html)


We'll see what my walk home brings...

Obs of the day

Obs = observations

My friend and I started obs several years ago - probably somewhere around 1999-2000, while trapped in the boredom of a mundane and thoughtless job situation. It started as a way to pass time over email and soon formed into a dialect of its own. Examples:

Obs: its raining
Obs: I forgot my umbrella

Remember subject and object from grade school? Well, obs eventually grew into a sentence structure where the colon separated the object: from the subject. Examples:

raining: it is
umbrella: I forgot it today
sad: that is

And then we realized we were talking like Yoda.

On the act of blogging

So, you can see that I wasn't as inspired as I thought I was 7 months ago when I created this blog. I mean, doesn't EVERYONE have a blog these days? And what makes my thoughts any more interesting than what is already out there? I can't even come up with a theme for my blog, maybe in time it will develop. My random thoughts will develop into something concrete and everyone will know that in order to read about ______, they will pay a visit to Jen's blog. My god, my name is even generic! I wonder how many "Jen's Blog"s there are out there. Perhaps I'll retitle it someday. Until then.... enjoy! Or try to enjoy. Pretend you enjoy? Thanks!

Damn you Jess...

for making me create my own blog just to respond to yours! Ok, I'll think of something cool to post here shortly. Stay tuned...