Once again--and late as ever--I'm visiting over here to send you the weeks playlist.

This week has been so long. It hasn't even been busy, but its been long. Sometimes, when you get the chance to look ahead, to know what lies beyond the next couple of weeks, while you're comforted by the feeling that the worst is about to end, you're also anxious for the better stuff to come along. I'll finish up my second to last law school semester in a couple of weeks, and when I return from vacation, I have almost nothing left, and I mean nothing; barely three or four hours a day, on two days of the week. Considering the weight of classes and homework and real work that this semester has been, I'm so glad to know that there won't be much to do, or really, any exams to take after the last push in December.

This kind of feeling repeats itself over a lifetime, even more than once in the same week, but with different triggers and different results. I was thinking a few weeks ago, how hopeless everything was. At the start of this year, it seemed like nothing was ever going to get done, and worse, I was never going to get the chance to take the focus off all of the professional jobs and just have fun for a moment. The most difficult part of law school, and life maybe, is just keeping that sense of humor, that forgetfulness--that humanity--through all of the nonsense and busy work. The secret is probably finding peace and happiness in very simple things--warm socks, light snow--that solve very simple problems, and its probably in not taking yourself or your life so seriously that you forget you're imperfect, that you forget that you make hilarious mistakes and missteps, and you can't always be right there, ready and on the ball. I can't. And thats okay. And frankly, I'm always willing to be the first to point it out.

I actually ended up putting a lot of slightly older music into the mix this week, with a lot of new music. I'm surprised at how it evens out.

1. Town Called Malice -- The Jam
2. Excellent News, Colonel -- Bound Stems
3. Circus -- The Sights
4. Open The Door To Your Heart -- Darrell Banks
5. God As The Architect -- Dearly Departed
6. Alone, Jealous and Stoned -- Secret Machines
7. The Connection -- Phish
8. Going Whichever Way The Wind Blows -- Pete Droge
9. Pretty In a Panic -- Wolves
10. How Life Can Turn -- The Appleseed Cast

Have a good weekend everyone!