headphones
i've got an ipod! the biggest one! the fat one with the biggest brain. i couldn't not get it. some guys would understand...

i owned a cd player in middle school, i think. i never bought CDs. i own maybe 10 CDs total. i never even listened to music until i got to college. it was more of a principle thing than anything else... i'm not going to pay 15 or 20 dollars for this CD that cost the record company pennies to mass produce.
whatever, napster, then lan connection, then kazaa/morpheus/sharescan/dc/whathaveyou, so now i listen to music. whenever i'm sitting in my room and i'm not playing video games or watching tv, something is playing in the background. it's strange to think what i was doing instead of listening to music when i was growing up. i guess that's why i read so much?

when i'm listening to music, i feel like i'm making up for lost time. i think it makes listening even better.

so the reason i started this post was to explain how i've never walked around outside with headphones on. it's really kind of strange. i ran into dave on my way to work and i didn't notice him until he was right in front of me. i feel like it's a sensory overload to be outside AND have headphones blasting directly into one's ears. after dave surprised me without trying to, i got kinda paranoid and kept looking around, half-expecting a car to come barrelling at me as soon as i stopped paying attention. i don't understand how people with headphones on don't just walk into oncoming traffic.

also, my ears kinda hurt. is this just because i'm unused to headphones? or do i have misshapen ears? or am i just wearing these suckers wrong?

god, my ipod is beautiful. i am going to cry when it gets its first scratch.