Music

Blogging is Not My Thing…

But I am going to do it anyways. Since I put in 120 hours at work this past week, I started bringing my laptop to work. I used to always bring it, but for months just didn’t. I don’t know why either - I usually have quite a bit of down time in a given day to kill. So anyways, laptop is coming with me from now on. This means I have infinite time to do things I don’t do often: blog, give star ratings to all my iTunes tracks, Photoshop. This blog is a byproduct of said time.

I registered for school yesterday. Since I was a community college drop out this semester, I was actually pretty eager to get back into it. Taking a semester off was good for me I think. If you are not motivated to be in school, don’t. It is just a waste of time. The last semester I was in school I was so sick of it. But being without school for a few months has shown me that it is something I do value, and want.

The original schedule I made for school was a bust. Everything I was planning on taking was filled up. So I ended up enrolling in Anatomy, which takes up nearly my entire Tuesdays and Thursdays. Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays are occupied by a job that is too easy of money to pass up for now. I am, however, a little depressed to be filling up two of my three days off a week with school. But I can always look for a new job once I get burned out. It is time for school to come before work. So for the time being, I am without a life. I also am taking an online psychology. But lets face it, that is not worth counting.

Ben Folds Five is entertaining. I am rating it mostly three to four stars right now. Which is saying something. Here is the rating system I have been using:

• One Star: A song that is a good listen when the mood is fit - probably not a song I could just turn on and enjoy at any given moment. Note: One star does not mean a song is necessarily bad - there is a certain expectation level just to make it into my library.
• Two Stars: Decent song, nothing to write home about. I might skip such a song in shuffle on a bad day, but I might not. There’d be no way of knowing.
• Three Stars: This is the average star, as it is the middle of a five star rating system. This signifies a great song which is the majority of ratings I give out.
• Four Stars: Fantastic song that rarely gets skipped in a shuffle mix.
• Five Stars: A incredible song (also a rarity in my library). It truly takes a special song to receive five stars, and such a rating is not handed out lightly. If I were to wear panties, they usually would come off when a five star song comes on the shuffle.

Enough for now, grandma’s need saving. Toodles.

© 2007 Jon Shoemaker.