I'm So Vain, I Probably Think This Blog Is About Me

OK, I'm going to do this "Currently..." thing again. It's become something of a tradition by now, right? I have made one more change, though. Last time I did this, I mentioned that "current favorite group" was kind of a pointless question, because my favorite groups really just don't change. There are three bands tied for first place in my favorites list: Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Rush. And they're very firmly ensconced there. There are probably 20 or 30 groups tied for second, and while which ones actually pop into my mind at any given time might change, the truth is, my muscial tastes really don't. So I'm zapping that category and replacing it with "current song stuck in my head." Because there always is one, and because that does change. (Thank goodness! Having the same song stuck in your head for days at a time is hell.) Anyway, without further ado, I present October's "Currently..." list:

Current clothes: Rush concert T-shirt: white, with a variation on their latest album cover on the front and the tour dates on the back. Blue jeans. (They're a bit long and are rolled up at the bottoms, so I think these are actually the same pair I was wearing last time.) White socks. Black sneakers.

Current mood: I've been at work for a couple of hours, and I'm only just starting to feel like I'm waking up. Most of the day, I've felt sort of half-asleep. Though not in a groggy and irritable kind of way, more like a dreamy, out-of-it sort of way. If that makes any sense at all.

Current music: Currently in the CD player at home is Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: Canon in D. As the title might indicate, it's a disc containing nothing but variations on the same classical tune. Which is cool by me, because Pachelbel's Canon pretty much is my entire taste in classical music. I wouldn't cross the street to hear Bach, but I'll happily listen to "Canon in D" eight times in a row. I have no idea why.

Current hair: It's just now starting to grow out a bit. Which means that, if I was really conscientious, I'd go in and get it cut now, before it gets long enough to start getting unruly. But I'm never that conscientious when it comes to things like that...

Current annoyance: The fact that I'm still not managing to get to sleep before about 7 or 8 AM. Although that's a lot less of a problem now that I don't have to be at work until 4 PM, rather than starting my shift at noon. I'm really not looking forward to switching onto the morning shift in a week and a half, though.

Current thing: Laziness. Pure, simple, can't-get-motivated-to-do-anything laziness.

Current desktop picture: This really cool composite picture of the Earth at night. Although it looks a tiny bit funky on my computer, because it's been stretched a bit to fit the screen.

Current song stuck in head: "You're So Vain." Because, see, I was looking through this music catalog, and I happened to notice an album by Tracy Chapman, and started thinking about the fact that, for some reason, I'm always getting Tracy Chapman and Carly Simon mixed up (not that I think about either of them all that much), and reminded myself that, while it's Carly Simon who does "You're So Vain," Tracy Chapman actually does... Well, I suspect she does all the other songs I tend to want to attribute to Carly Simon. And now Carly's singing in my head. Possibly as a form of revenge, I dunno.

Current book: Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Ostensibly, it's a book about the difficulties of translating a French poem into English, but, this being Hofstadter, he rambles cheerfully on about a wide variety of interesting subjects, including language, music, artificial intelligence, and pretty much anything else it occurs to him to toss in.

Current video in player: A "tapeover" tape with last week's Firefly on it. (That was a really fun epsiode, by the way, even if I didn't necessarily find the big plot twist 100% convincing.) Currently in the DVD player is Reservoir Dogs. It's taking me forever to get through all the extras on that one.

Current refreshment: A can of Pepsi.

Current worry: Getting everything done that I need to do before I take off on vacation in a month.

Current thought: I think the difference between Carly Simon and Tracy Chapman is that Carly Simon gets annoying a lot quicker...