i took a walk for an hour or so, lamenting that i didn't think to do so yesterday when we were having one of those temporary spring days. though this month should be winter's last laugh or lingering cough as the case may be. i don't want to make judgments on the severity of the season, but it felt a little weak, yes? a sickly winter. today waiting around for work, once again. it feels like all my life has been about the past few months: waiting. this week i've been spending all together too much time online, but not without some quality entertainment:

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» downloading lots of songs in general, most recently mates of state, the new pornographers, a little le mans, and the peel session version of velocity girl's "crazy town." i tried searching for accurate lyrics for velocity girl, but it seems that all that's around are a set of obviously wrong ones—so disappointing as i can only pick up words here and there.

the other day i was walking with my headphones on, and i noticed that this man i was walking towards was talking to me. it was so curious because i was a good quarter of a block away when he started talking to me. so i pulled the headphones off as i got closer, he was in mid-sentence talking about a streetlight, finishing by pointing up to the light on the other side of the street. it was on, even though it was daytime. he told me how the power went off once on a friday, points to the box one post over, the one that broke. they didn't fix it until monday. the irony of the streetlight being on now, the waste of power. he was laughing about it, but not because he really thought it was funny, just ridiculous. i realized that he would have continued talking to me all afternoon if i didn't start walking again and part of me stayed there to get down to the bottom of his garrulity. but the physical part of me replied imagine that with a smile and continued walking.