What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
1. I Love You, Porgy - Miles Davis
2. I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys
3. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
4. The Best Day - George Strait
5. Fields of Gold - Sting
6. Don Quixote - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
7. These Thousand Hills - Third Day
8. What Have We Become - dc Talk
9. Heartland - George Strait
10. I Need Words, God of Wrath - David Crowder Band
i'm not exactly sure how this is a horoscope, but its kind of interesting. of course i don't recognize 5 of these and--according to itunes--have listened to 6 of them twice or less. is it possible to have too many mp3's?
i wouldn't have even answered this one but for SS.
What are your personal memories of September 11th?
september, 2001 was the fall of my last senior year in college. i had a VLSI class at 8am but i arrived only to find that it was cancelled for the day. when i got back in my car to head home for a nap, i heard on the radio that a plane had flown into the world trade center. this would have been right at 8am CST so it was actually in between the 2 planes hitting the towers. i drove home and turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit live. at that point, no one knew exactly what was going on other than this was a plane hijacking and that both WTC towers had been hit. i remember my friend lorrie calling and asking me what i thought was going on. i think i told her that i didn't know but that i thought we would be safe in starkville, ms.
about an hour later the towers collapsed. the only video there was at that point was the long shot from far away so all you could really see was the tower going down and a huge cloud of smoke coming over the whole site. by then i didn't know what to do and the news didn't have any new info, so i went to my 11:00 class. i remember sitting there listening to the professor's lecture thinking that neither she nor anyone else there knew what had happened. it was a pretty empty class that day and i presume that anyone who had seen or heard the news reports had just skipped the class. it was a strange feeling sitting in a class like i had done hundreds of times but knowing that it didn't matter and that probably no one else there knew what was going on in NYC.
that afternoon, i had to do some work in a computer lab on campus but was trying to stay up-to-date with the latest. the campus internet connection--which is usually very fast because they have a FAT pipe--was completely bogged down. i don't know if it was from on-campus usage or the slowness of the internet at large that day because of everyone in the US checking CNN.com every 5 seconds. this, of course, led to speculation that the terrorist attack was also targeted at communications networks and that they were bringing down the internet. this was ultimately proven false, but it seemed plausible at the time.
i really only have specific memories of the hour or so when i found out about the attacks and watching the towers collapse. the rest of that day doesn't really stand out much. i think i was in shock like everyone else and just went through the motions of the day.
How many places have you lived in your life?
well, i can't say that i've really lived very many places in my life. pensacola, starkville, brookhaven, hattiesburg. that's about it. 4 cities, 2 states.
What was the last game you played?
over the weekend i went on a sunday school class retreat to grayton beach, fl. while there, i got into a game of Take Two with a few other folks. it was close to midnight and i didn't do very well.
