so i've finally gotten a new ipod, for those of you who remember how back in november i was robbed of my old one (thanks mom and dad!). and it's so great to have it again, i'm not really sure how i survived these past months. first of all, it's great in the morning shuttle when i'm just too tired to try to understand my cheery coworkers, whether they're speaking english or chinese. today i sat next to the guy who always has his ipod, and felt completely at peace with the world. second of all, i love listening to mood music when i'm on the street- for china, i think that the garden state soundtrack tops my list.
yeah, i know, welcome to 3 years ago, but don't judge me. i have a habit of getting into music just after it's popular. and when i get into music, i get really obsessive, i mean listening to a song 20 or more times a day. for instance, when i discovered the song Digital Love (the week of graduation), i actually listened to it on repeat for an entire weekend, including the 4 hour trip home. but i've discovered in the long run, people don't really notice, because we are still able to share the same nostalgic joy in hearing the song, like this saint patricks day when the song "float on" came on, and even though i got really into it during spring semester senior year and everybody else liked it, i dunno, the summer before, now we can all sing it together.
the ipod will also be an awesome companion during my five weeks travelling in southeast asia, which is approaching rapidly. i've had to do some long train rides sans pod, and i'll tell you, it makes it a lot more difficult to ignore the old, spitting chinese guys staring at you if you can't block it out with some soothing tunes. and now i've got video to boot, so i can look at johnny depp, (or rather keira knightley but i'm picturing the screenshot that's on the apple website) instead.
so hurrah for technology, and who knows how we lived without it?