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So, I finally decided that it was time to quit my job a few weeks ago.  If you've been a loyal reader, then you know this is a good thing for me...er, aside from the whole unemployed and sitting at home all day thing.  Now, most people wouldn't leave without having another opportunity already in place, but I'm clearly not most people.  I want to say that doing absolutely nothing has already gotten boring and I really miss the structure of a working day...but that's just not true.  I love having the freedom to do what I want, sleep late, watch random afternoon TV, walk around the city, and as I said, do almost nothing productive.

Actually, my problem now is that I can't fall asleep before midnight, at the earliest.  I used to go to bed around 11pm, and would wake up at 6am every morning.  Now that timeframe has shifted some hours forward.  I stay up late and obviously wake up late(r), which only bothers me because sooner or later I'll have to get back to my old routine when I find a new job.  It's really hard to imagine waking up so damn early now...I don't know how I used to do it with regularity.

On another note, I picked up the new video iPod nano the other day...the one in that annoying TV ad...you know the one I'm talking about.  Did I really need a new one when my old nano works perfectly?  Do I have money to spend on non-necessities now that I'm jobless?  I know, but I couldn't resist...now I can take my Grey's Anatomy episodes on the go!  Wow, good times.  It also has twice the capacity of my old one, so even with the movies and television shows, I can still fit more music than before; the screen is cleaner and brighter; and I actually like the wider shape.

But enough of my pseudo-Amazon review.  What simultaneously pleases and annoys me is the Cover Flow feature, which by the way is cooler when you can flip it with your finger like on the iPhone.  It looks great and all, but half of my album covers don't show up on the stupid screen, leaving a blank gray background.  The two biggest reasons are that (1) iTunes has a decent but limited hip-hop selection, and doesn't recognize anything not found in the Apple Store and (2) the artist/album/song names have to be spelled exactly the way iTunes has them or they won't be recognized.  If that doesn't seem like it would be a major issue, trust me, it is.  I've been spending an hour or two a day trying to get all of my damn covers to show up, and I'm just about there.  Why did I feel the need to go into all of this detail?  Because this has been the most interesting -- if you can actually call it that -- part of my life lately.

Oh, unless you wanna hear about how upset I was to hear my girl stopped by my old office mere days after I left.  Yeah, didn't think so...