3.03.2005
smiles
I've had an interesting week: recovering from Torpids and not doing a whole lot of work, then an all-nighter on Monday into Tuesday to get said work done. Meetings and classes yesterday, then tonight I've got a concert of the Monteverdi Vespers. It's been busy, but it's a good busy. :)
I was walking to class yesterday listening to my iPod, as I do, and I just started to grin. It was one of those moments when there's no weight on your shoulders, when for whatever reason the sun shines a little brighter, the world is more gorgeous, and you smile. For the record, it was (cringe!) Hansen's MmmBop followed by Weezer's Island in the Sun on the iPod, which I got off of a mix CD made by Ms. Mary-Catherine of the Princeton University Glee Club. Two years ago, I went with that Glee Club to Hawaii, and Mary-Catherine made us all a mix CD with both of those songs on it. And I hadn't heard the Hansen in years, and while it's so cheesy and so stupid and so 'oh my goodness, what am I doing listening to this nonsense', it's got that ability to take me back to that trip to Hawaii, to seeing my friend Alexandra, hanging out with Diane, meeting Emily and Lee, who have become really good friends, and just having a great time.
Still, I'm not sure that remembering Hawaii was why I got all smiley all of a sudden. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't the music. It was sort of everything and nothing - just a good day, I think.
I was walking to class yesterday listening to my iPod, as I do, and I just started to grin. It was one of those moments when there's no weight on your shoulders, when for whatever reason the sun shines a little brighter, the world is more gorgeous, and you smile. For the record, it was (cringe!) Hansen's MmmBop followed by Weezer's Island in the Sun on the iPod, which I got off of a mix CD made by Ms. Mary-Catherine of the Princeton University Glee Club. Two years ago, I went with that Glee Club to Hawaii, and Mary-Catherine made us all a mix CD with both of those songs on it. And I hadn't heard the Hansen in years, and while it's so cheesy and so stupid and so 'oh my goodness, what am I doing listening to this nonsense', it's got that ability to take me back to that trip to Hawaii, to seeing my friend Alexandra, hanging out with Diane, meeting Emily and Lee, who have become really good friends, and just having a great time.
Still, I'm not sure that remembering Hawaii was why I got all smiley all of a sudden. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't the music. It was sort of everything and nothing - just a good day, I think.
