The reason I have been listening to so much rap.

Look at the hit count...almost at 30!!!

Anyway, I realized early this morning why for the last 2 months I have been listening to solely hip-hop music. It has to do with a cognitive block from all my favorite college radio. I can no longer listen to bands such as: Death Cab, Postal Service, the Flaming Lips, Guster, and every other student alt-rock band I used to. The reasoning for this is the very real memories that these songs conjure up. As I listened to Death Cab this morning at work all I could think of was banging out 5 pagers at 2 am, looking forward all week to a wonderful Wed. Night in CollegeTown with Group Therapy, Zach at Dino's, Mama T's Pizza and finding out way too late how great Ruloff's and CollegeTown bagels are. This music also makes me remember all of the wonderful friends I found at IC and how easily I could spend time with any of you, at any time, because everyone was within 2 square miles.

I have yet to really miss Ithaca. Moving down to VA, doing the job hunt, and now working has kept me pretty busy. But, now as I have to boycott about 10 gigs on my iPod, I realize that Georgetown will never be Collegetown and Dupont Circle will never be the Commons, and everyone I meet will be wonderful, but we will not share that common bond of college for those four incredible years.

So, in conclusion, no more Death Cab. No more college radio. Maybe I will do grad school at Cornell.

* Hey check out my ghetto creative MS Paint job. Nice? I will have to develop my artistic skills in future posts.