Interesting FactT

I listen to more music in Warsaw than other places, apparently.

According to iTunes, I have listened to 707 songs (as of writing) in the past two weeks. 541 of those songs have been heard since I got home on the 19th.

That's 77.2857143 songs a day!
At an average length of 3 minutes, that's 231.857143 minutes (3.864 hours) of solid music.

Afterword.

And now I have a cold. Thanks a lot, Santa.

Home!

Well, I'm back home, done with student teaching. Already boredom has set in. On the plus side: I will be spending New Year's with my girlfriend Mo. You are all very excited for me, I'm sure.

Christmas Eve is coming tomorrow, and this is probably the year that I have been the least excited for it. There are a variety of reason for this, but I feel stupid because I keep falling into these college kid traps: last Thanksgiving I was complaining because most of my friends live away from where I do, before that I was lamenting how home doesn't feel so homey, and now I'm doing the standard "grasping for what Christmas used to be."

New Year's Resolution: don't blog when home on break.

Everybody do yourself multiple favors and get your hands on anything by Erlend Øye.

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Hey, I put pictures on flickr. Check them out.

Ramsey Does More Top Ten Lists

Best 5 Books that I Purchased and Read That Came Out in 2005 by Ramsey G. Ess
1. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krause Rosenthal
2. The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
3. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
4. The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine
5. The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C.A.Tripp

Holiday

Ramsey Quantifies the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Five

Part One in a Many-Part Series! Collect them all!

Best Albums of 2005 by Ramsey G. Ess
1. Of Montreal – Sunlandic Twins
2. The Decemberists – Picaresque
3. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
4. P:Ano – Brigadoon
5. Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
6. White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
7. Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die
8. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
9. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
10. M.I.A. – Arular