Headphones & the City.

I like having headphones at most points of the day. I do it frequently. I also frequently break my headphones, so I've avoided making a habit of buying nice headphones because of my tendency to be so reckless with them.

I usually like to jam out and drown out all the garbage-noise going on around me. I don't find most conversations to be interesting, mainly because I'm not a part of them, they're not about me, and they usually don't involve a subject of which I can relate to. Granted, this may be because I feel like I can't relate to many conversations that don't directly involve sex & failing relationships, the law, drinking, or a combination of those things. But still, most people have boring conversations in public.

But, a big but, there is definitely something to be said for listening to the sounds of your city. So sometimes I ride the bus or go to lunch without the headphones, just to get a sense of where I am and what's going on. While I'll never fail to appreciate how walking around with headphones can have the effect of transforming your experiences into a movie scene, I'll try to balance that out with hearing Cindy and Nancy drone on about how the crepes were too expensive, or Chuck's latest move on the investment-portfolio front.

In more entertaining and sad news, since I was paying so much attention to the lack of sex over the past year, I failed to mention/notice that I hadn't really dated someone in over a year. Jesus.

Here's hoping a summer fling springs up sooner rather than later.