And These Days Still Go Oddly Terrific

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March 22, 2011

And These Days Still Go Oddly Terrific

So this morning, the second of the new term, I head out for the usual 15-minute walk to the metro and decide that I'm bored with every song on my crap Blackberry.

I decide I want to listen to "Lux Aeterna" from the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack. See below.

As you may be able to tell, Lux Aeterna is a little... dramatic. Which can every once in awhile make for an amusing start to the day. You go into a little cafe next to the Ferrocarril to get a quick cup of coffee and it sounds like I am preparing to serve coffee to The One True God Jehovah The Almighty, in the last coffee shop in all of eternity.

It's a little upbeat.

Anyway, so because I don't have the song on my phone I try to play it on YouTube. Which fails because Blackberries are crap. It would have worked on the iPhone, but no. So now I'm just pissed and search for "YouTube not working on Blackberry 9700", which provides some tips. None of which are successful. I'm now more than halfway to school and give up, saying I'll put it on before class. But I get to school a minute before the session, sprint to get terrible coffee from the machine and forget about it.

Our Global Marketing professor starts the session and twenty minutes later plays a Sky Sports ad. A Sky Sports ad featuring... freaking "Lux Aeterna".

I love this life.

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