The iPod Shuffle....

I quite literally am in love with my iPod shuffle and thank the boy daily for it being purchased. While it won't hold my entire CD collection and it doesn't display the song titles and artists, it has become quite an obsession for me. Once or twice a week I update it and begin each day walking from my car to my office and then to the library. Each day the pocket size of happiness starts a shufflin' and gives me the soundtrack for my day. If it starts off with Bonnie Prince Billy's "The Way" I know my day will be a little jaded, a little slow, and a little pensive. If it blasts off with The Clashe's "London Calling" I know that I will be a bit lippy, walk with a purpose, and flick someone off while I am driving. Today it started with the English Beat's "Save it for Later" which I can only interpret to mean that I am going to have a best friend named ducky, ride in a parade float through downtown Chicago singing the Beatles, have detention this Saturday, the boy will be playing Peter Gabriel songs out of his boom box outside my window this afternoon, and Long Duck Dong will be coming to stay with us for a while. not bad.