a low profile high-tail outta there

recently, it's been nice keeping to myself - for the most part.

Monday morning was a dreadful start to the week. I got rear ended on the way to work - nothing terribly damaging, but my neck hurts still. I'm alive, and thankful - and a very cool happenstance - I grabbed a green lid plug with my coffee that particular visit. I normally don't, but the feeling of not wanting my coffee to spill came over me. weird.

I've been working like madness to get these projects finished at work. Last week was just about a 60 hour week, and this week has been non-stop days. So it's nice to have some time to myself when I get a moment.

I bought a new keyboard, finally. Pretty stoked on it and I'm hoping it'll help spark some new creativity in a weird way. A gust of inspiration always comes with new stuff, in my experience, so I'm praying that God uses this in some way for His glory.

All I've been writing are songs that sound like the color blue. The dark, cobalt blue. The moonlit speakeasy blue. The jazz in Chicago in the rain blue. They're terribly dreadful and make me wanna take up spending $6 for tobacco again.

Elusive, tight lipped, and lots of reading. I still like to laugh, but alone times are the serious times. And considering my family is leaving next week, I'll be spending Christmas alone again this year, so I'll have a nice, quiet winter.

I couldn't sleep, so I wrote this instead. Just a peek into what's happened lately, I guess.

Records to listen to: (by Artist/Band only)

Nero
M83
Other Lives
JBM
Bonobo
Silversun Pickups
Trent Reznor & Karen O
Radiohead
Damien Rice

Some odd combos, but it's been keeping my head outside my brain all week. Good one.