{"id":10704,"date":"2013-08-01T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2013-08-01T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T01:18:41","slug":"thursday-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I arrived at the office today to discover a small wooden skull and a stuffed crow sitting atop my computer keyboard. As you might well imagine, this is not a normal turn of events for a Thursday morning. Had I not been almost entirely sure about who had done this — “you know it’s one of two people,” my boss laughed when she saw it — I might have taken it as some kind of ominous portent. That and the black spot<\/a> left on an index card on my desk a few hours later. But it was all just a bunch of silliness. That’s just the sort of coworkers that I have. Need I remind you of the Dalek incident<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Alas, I only thought to take pictures once I’d returned the toys to their proper owner.<\/p>\n

The rest of the day was pretty much normal. Sometime after lunch, I went looking for a training session that I thought was happening, because I had it on my calendar, but which actually happening for another three weeks.<\/p>\n

And that’s about as exciting as the whole week’s been. Were it not for the deadly portents, having lost one of the earbuds from my headphones (and then realizing it didn’t make as much difference as I would have thought) would be the most exciting thing that’s happened since Monday.<\/p>\n

So, in lieu of anything else, and apropos of nothing but it being (amazingly, finally) August, here’s my monthly music mix, that thing that I do for no particular reason but that I enjoy it, and like music, every month. Last month<\/a>, I only had five songs. So this month I may have over-compensated. I have twenty-seven. This, quite honestly, is going to make pulling together a year-end mix a little more difficult:<\/p>\n

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  1. “Desperate Heart” by Gram Rabbit<\/li>\n
  2. “Hit or Miss” by Odetta<\/li>\n
  3. “These Ozark Hills” by Blackberry Winter<\/li>\n
  4. “It Came Out of the Wilderness” by Pete Molinari<\/li>\n
  5. “Closer” by Tegan and Sara<\/li>\n
  6. “Entertainment” by Phoenix<\/li>\n
  7. “Can You Get to That” by Mavis Staples<\/li>\n
  8. “Shameless” by Lissie<\/li>\n
  9. “Royals” by Lorde<\/li>\n
  10. “Beautiful Tomorrow” by Beth Rowley<\/li>\n
  11. “Be Good (Lion’s Song)” by Gregory Porter<\/li>\n
  12. “Lose Your Head” by Dead Man’s Bones<\/li>\n
  13. “In My Head” by Olivier Libaux (feat. Susan Dillane)<\/li>\n
  14. “Only You” by Yaz<\/li>\n
  15. “Questions and Answers” by Lou Doilion<\/li>\n
  16. “Bones” by MS MR<\/li>\n
  17. “Never Wanted Your Love” by She & Him<\/li>\n
  18. “Mary” by Sparkadia<\/li>\n
  19. “Back Then” by B. Story<\/li>\n
  20. “Saint Judas” by Natalie Merchant<\/li>\n
  21. “Hysteric” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/li>\n
  22. “Lucky” by Kat Edmondson<\/li>\n
  23. “Dirty Paws” by Of Monsters and Men<\/li>\n
  24. “I Still Believe” by the Call<\/li>\n
  25. “Strong as an Oak” by Watsky<\/li>\n
  26. “Gloria” by Patti Smith<\/li>\n
  27. “Walking Song” by Kate and Anna McGarrigle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So that was Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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