This is my insight for the day. Maybe insight is too strong of a word; thought is more like it. The other day I was thinking about public education while my teeth were getting drilled. My teeth were getting drilled today as well, but I was not thinking about education.
Speaking of Counting Crows, the other day (and by that I mean some random day several months ago) I realized that a group of crows is called a "murder," and the song title "A Murder of One" made much more sense. That's the song with the lyric "I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow/Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there/Counting crows."
You'd think I'd been thinking about Counting Crows a lot recently based on this post, but the opposite in fact is true. The song lyric revelation made me think of a similar moment I had with Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy," but I was unsure of just what lyric was revealed to me after years of listening to the song. I did remember, however, that I had mentioned that moment it in the brief autobiography I wrote in a junior year writing class where I picked ten songs through which to tell my life story. (Yes, it was as bad as it sounds.) It was not worth mentioning, but I did proceed to spent a good half hour reading through miscellaneous pieces of old writing, coming across this gem. It was in a folder labeled "Memoirs," which I opened hoping that I would find a substantial body of work I could perhaps use. There was a single document named "March 10 (06)" and it consisted of a 3,000 word stream of consciousness, excerpted below.
Ok I’m going to write 1000 words right now without stopping to punctaute or anything so that I can take a shower and feel like I accomplished something– again we are going to go for quantity since measuring by quality these days makes me sad and like I want to cry. That was a little overdramatic, as was the part when I said I would not stop to punctuate. I feel that Lynn Truss, author of “eats, shoots, and leaves,” which is on my floor right now as we speak, would be disappointed in me. I also wasted precious time deleting to make sure that the comma went inside the quotation marks, even though I could just pass it off as british, it did kind of annoy me. I am on some level meant to be a proofreader but proofing these math papers makes me depressed since they are so badly written.
Three years later and not much has changed, eh?
3 comments:
au contraire my dear... i see the changes. good changes. i'm just dying to know what the other nine songs were.
i'm sure if i were to make a list, at least one of the many josh ritter wolves songs would make it on there.
I second the request for the rest of the songs!
wait, british people put the comma outside the quotes?? oh man, that is really going to mess me up now.
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