6.29.2004
when it rains...
...lightning strikes.
So I got my iPod replaced. My dad asked "what do you mean, replaced?" Well, they looked at my iPod, tried to hook it up to a computer and said, "wow. it's gone." So I am in possession of iPod #2, which is completely empty and devoid of music, and my CDs are all packed away somewhere, so I can't even begin to fill it up. I know it seems silly to fret and such over technology but for a musician, to lose all of that music makes life really pretty bleak, or at least, a bit less colorful.
And of course, lightning doesn't just strike. It strikes again.
About a month before school ended, a pin in my watch broke, rendering it unwearable but otherwise OK. The guys here in Lexington, MA know my watch and can fix it (other watch places have told me that they don't have the tools for it) and for cheap (if other stores do have the tools, they're going to charge me upwards of $40 to replace a stupid little pin). So I put it in my car and drove up to Boston. I don't know what happened, but the watch crystal broke in transit, because on the way to the jewelry store, I saw that there's a giant crack down the face of the watch. This would be really humorous except that I'm a) petrified of doing *anything* for fear of wasting my time and breaking something else, and b) starting to get really really depressed. This frightens me because I've been depressed before and there's nothing I wouldn't do to avoid going through it again. But when so many things break in so little time (I think it's been less than a month), the stupid superstitious part of my brain is getting really on edge.
I dunno... I just feel like I'm going to lose it.
So I got my iPod replaced. My dad asked "what do you mean, replaced?" Well, they looked at my iPod, tried to hook it up to a computer and said, "wow. it's gone." So I am in possession of iPod #2, which is completely empty and devoid of music, and my CDs are all packed away somewhere, so I can't even begin to fill it up. I know it seems silly to fret and such over technology but for a musician, to lose all of that music makes life really pretty bleak, or at least, a bit less colorful.
And of course, lightning doesn't just strike. It strikes again.
About a month before school ended, a pin in my watch broke, rendering it unwearable but otherwise OK. The guys here in Lexington, MA know my watch and can fix it (other watch places have told me that they don't have the tools for it) and for cheap (if other stores do have the tools, they're going to charge me upwards of $40 to replace a stupid little pin). So I put it in my car and drove up to Boston. I don't know what happened, but the watch crystal broke in transit, because on the way to the jewelry store, I saw that there's a giant crack down the face of the watch. This would be really humorous except that I'm a) petrified of doing *anything* for fear of wasting my time and breaking something else, and b) starting to get really really depressed. This frightens me because I've been depressed before and there's nothing I wouldn't do to avoid going through it again. But when so many things break in so little time (I think it's been less than a month), the stupid superstitious part of my brain is getting really on edge.
I dunno... I just feel like I'm going to lose it.
