a lament for my ipod

there have been a bunch of jimmy stewart movies on the tv recently, a cause for happiness if there's ever been one.

It's been ungodly warm and humid out the past couple of days, makes it hard for me to work up the gumption to get up and walk through st. elmo looking for jobs. when i go for a walk at night and come back covered in sweat, i have a hard time convincing myself to go out and walk while the sun is out. I am going out tomorrow, even if my ipod is on the fritz. its served me well up till now, i've had it for 2 years and no problems until the past week. it still plays music, the screen's just all messed up, some black splotches, blue blurs, and a rather odd rainbowy deal running through it all. on occasion i luck out and get to the music, but more often than not i get trapped in a settings menu pressing buttons to no avail. i'm sure it would be easy to get it fixed if i had the money. suppose i'll have to go back to the stone ages and get a cd player. we should have just stuck with cassette players, much sturdier than cd's and ipods.

... a moment of silence for my ipod if you would...

read a lot of books in the past several days maybe 8 in the past week (they were all pretty short and easy reads): the first four books in the rachel morgan series by kim harrison and the protector of the small series by Tamora Pierce. watched the first and second season of the office can't wait for the 3rd season to come out on dvd.

for any of you who didn't know, L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s newest book in the saga of recluce series Natural Ordermage is due to come out sept 18th, very excited about that.

well, my movie's over, and before i get caught up in another one i should probably head to bed.