1. “Overnight Obser­va­tion” — ONJ — Soul Kiss
2. “Cir­cles” — Cap­tain & Ten­nille — Why do they always pop up? As if my silly Fri­day meme isn’t cheesy enough…
3. « Juste une étoile » — Isabelle Boulay — Nos lende­mains
4. “Alright” — Jamiro­quai — Trav­el­ing With­out Moving
5. “If We Could Start Over” — Celine Dion — Uni­son — OMFG, she’s on her way back to Vegas!!
6. “Wish­ing You Were Here” — Chicago — Chicago IX — Chicago’s Great­est Hits
7. “The Cap­tain and the Kid” — Jimmy Buf­fett — Boats
8. “She’s the One” — Saint Eti­enne — Foxbase Alpha
9. “Out­side Look­ing In” — Mary Chapin Car­pen­ter — Stones in the Road
10. “Waltz (Bet­ter than Fine)” — Fiona Apple — Extra­or­di­nary Machine — Where did you go, Fiona? Come back to us!

Is it really Fri­day? Every day this week, I woke up think­ing it was another day. Today I woke up a 6:45 a.m. think­ing it was Sat­ur­day, and I haven’t fin­ished my paper for my Soci­ol­ogy class yet. My heart raced a lit­tle until I con­vinced myself that it was really Fri­day … and I had to go to work on top of that. I love four-day work weeks, but some­times they fuck with my head.

We didn’t have class last Sat­ur­day because of the President’s Day hol­i­day, so it’s been two weeks that I have had this assign­ment. These reac­tion papers are really a piece of cake to write, espe­cially since I love writ­ing and I miss it a lot. I’m eager for the next assign­ment and topic. I mean, give me a topic and I can go all nar­ra­tive on it for pages. But if it’s an assign­ment, I will invari­ably wait until the last minute to write it. I’ve started writ­ing papers early in past, but they were always strained and kinda bland. Then, as the dead­line approached, I was filled with a kind of inspi­ra­tion and I wrote some­thing infi­nitely bet­ter … and keep in mind that “infi­nitely bet­ter” is rel­a­tive. I will never be a Kurt Von­negut or a Neil Gaiman, but I know I can craft a paper when I have to. And now that it’s offi­cially rec­og­nized that I’m bored at work, I feel less guilty about using my six-and-a-half hours in the office as my home­work time.