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I’ve discovered my MP3 player barely makes it eight hours on one charge. A couple of years ago I would have been amazed that anything could last eight ~whole~ hours on a single charge, but now it just seems to annoy me. Mostly because I work five hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays and three hours on Mondays and Wednesdays, meaning the battery always runs out at the end of the day, before I go home, twice a week (since I listen to it on the bus ride and so forth).

I wonder if anyone finds it odd that I sit here with headphones on all day. If so, nobody’s said anything about it. I think it’s funny because this is the first time I’ve ever tried to get away with such a thing. Granted, I’ve only had an MP3 player since Christmas, so it’s really the first time I’ve had the opportunity to get away with such things, but still. I consider it “unlike me” currently. I’m in the process of forcing myself into a new habit of having music going pretty much all the time, which includes at work, since I pretty much just sit here, ignored by all those around me, for twenty hours a week. I have the music down low enough that I can hear when people do talk to me, so it’s all good. I’m not totally ignoring the outside world… I’m just blissfully unaware of it for long stretches of time.

If I do get a Shuffle this summer (and I pretty much guarantee I do as soon as I can afford it) I think I’ll have to ante up and get the 1GB version. My current MP3 player sports 512MB, which is nice, but I’m already growing accustomed to the music on it, and that’s one pattern I’m not comfortable with. I remember how annoyed I would get last semester when I grew to immediately recognize the individual songs in my study music (which towards the end was classical music streamed over the ‘net), which would mean my mind would instantly become focused on the notes coming next instead of whatever I was supposed to be reading. I could even recognize composers after a while, which isn’t a good sign considering I can’t remember names and I’m essentially musically illiterate these days (haven’t been able to read sheet music since grade school).

Continuing in MP3 news, I spent over 3 hours last night organizing my MP3 collection. I still have manyplus MP3s not sitting in files, but they’re all named according to my schema (Artist - Song With Title Capitalized.mp3) and most all of them have appropriate ID3 tags attached. I then watched the Food Network for a couple of hours with roomy Amanda while drinking a couple Amber Bocks. I really have to figure out what to do with myself in the evenings. I keep thinking I’ll start reading fiction again soon, but I never seem to be in the mood. Sigh and alas.