Hey there, Friday's almost over, a new, still incomplete version of the thesis is on the printer, I'm tired and out of energy. The news of the day are that I will leave academia after my master. I'm pretty sure. So I got back to another song that was part of my Christmas/New Year-soundtrack and will probably stay part of the one for finishing the studies...
Having survived a day that turned out to be rather confusing in the end, I was standing on the ferry and thinking about life. Is this it? Is this my life? Once I was discussing some program design with a teacher and said "this is how it works in theory, let's see how it will work in real life". He replied: "This is real life."
True.
So here I am sitting, listening to what the "Genius" is playing for me, and once again I hear John Mayer telling "I just found out there's no such thing like the real world". That might be it. Don't know what it should be helpful for. But that might be it. Yes.
PS: Please excuse me for making the blog a collection of pop music wisdoms these days. It's all I can say. Let me know if it bores you.
The weekend passed by too fast. I was trying to keep going with my thesis, and I kind of did, but it still feels like it's taking forever... Yesterday I went to church in spite of all, which was good. After that I bought a cap and a calendar which took me ages. Later I had dinner with friends. Very nice.
Today I finally got good gloves. I had been borrowing a pair from a Vietnamese fellow student for a few days because my old cheap ones had big holes and my hands were freezing when I was cycling... But now it feels much warmer anyway, with or without gloves. It even started to rain :-(
These days I got out some music from a few years ago and have been listening to Switchfoot's Beautiful Letdown over and over again. Here comes my song of the weekend. Have a good week everyone!
The laundry container is out of power and that gives me the unique chance and motivation to finally write something again... Christmas, New Year's Eve, just taking some days off and hanging out with family and friends were great! Thanks for that y'all!!!
Today I want to tell you about the Dixie Chicks virus that spread in my family. I think it started with sister 1 when she was in the USA a few years ago, then it was sister 2 looking for a wedding outfit, then my dad watching the dvd "Shut Up and Sing" and now it's me. I bet my mom only doesn't talk about it.
My sis presented the album "Taking the Long Way" to me in this time of being at home, going to the Christmas service, seeing people who are still living in my home village, thinking about past, present and future and being asked about it again and again...
The opener of the cd begins:
My friends from high school Married their high school boyfriends Moved into houses in the same ZIP codes Where their parents live
But I, I could never follow No I, I could never follow
Could have been the soundtrack of my Christmas holidays :-)
So that album is pretty cool, I must admit. Funny enough that the Dixie Chicks worked with Semisonic's songwriter Dan Wilson (remember my last post?). Plus Rick Rubin, John Mayer and Chad Smith (RHCP's drummer). Whoohoooo.
The documentary is definitely recommendable: Check the trailer or the whole documentary. No need to be a country fan to like it.
