I feel so special

It looks like I will be returning to my hometown next week for a "business" trip. I created a database for some timeshare yoyos a couple of years ago and they are currently in the middle of a crisis. After years of constant shit and abuse the office manager, who was the only person who knew how to run the place, up and quit. She just walked out in the middle of the day. (Yay!Katherine!)

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So I get to swoop in and do my SuperTrish thing and (hopefully) save the day. Of course, I'm in the middle of a project with my part time job, and they won't have any more contracts until January and I'd like to get all of the hours I can. This means I won't be leaving until the middle of next week at the earliest. The timeshare yoyos aren't too pleased, but I don't really care. In fact it makes me feel all warm inside.

I'm such a bitch.

But hey, free trip home! Life is good!

Music is good.

As usual, fromward has got me thinking. This time it’s about music.

I grew up in a family that was really into music (listening, not playing). I wrote a bit about it here.

I’ve found that I’m just not as musically adventurous as I’ve gotten older. It’s not that I don’t like new bands, it’s that I am extremely lazy. It takes a lot of work to keep abreast of new musical stylings and, frankly, I’m too busy with my shows. I don’t really watch Much Music any more, and I rarely listen to the radio since I got rid of my car when I moved to the city (it was a truck, actually, in case anyone is keeping score).

Anyways, I find that I mainly listen to my old favourites these days. I’m always desperate for something new to listen to, but there is such comfort in listening to the music of your youth.

And what might that music be? Just about anything from the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s with an especial warm gooey soft spot for the New Wave that I listened to when I was in high school.

I’m all bouncy right now because I actually bought two new cds today: Depeche Mode: Remixes 81-04 and U2: Go Home – Live from Slane Castle Ireland (okay, that one is a dvd, but you get the idea).

Listening to U2 brings back some serious first year university flashbacks for me. I had always been a huge U2 fan in high school (along with Duran Duran, OMD, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Bauhuas, etc, etc)and I remember impatiently waiting for the release of Rattle and Hum.
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I still am very fond of U2. I love that they have managed to stay fresh and exciting and together. Ditto for Depeche Mode.

I’m so excited after listening to the dvd. It has all of my most loved songs on it and kicks eleven kinds of ass.

So, to recap: I’m bouncy, I’m excited and I’ve had way too much Pepsi. Hell, I'm so tingly that I can barely feel my hands right now.

I’m so ready for Smallville tonight.