Friday, December 30, 2005

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!