Cantaverunt

Well, I seem to have set my own standards for myself impossibly high with that post from a few days ago. So high, in fact, that I have self-induced writer's block. If I can't write about something meaningful, I might as well not write, eh? Well, screw that. I'm drunk, I'll write about whatever I want. I suppose that even the things that I think are "good" really aren't all that great anyway, so why worry, eh?

I've been listening to Irish drinking songs, specifically old traditional ones as performed by the Clancy Brothers and the Dubliners. Everyone ought to have at least a basic repertoire of Irish drinking, especially if they drink. I especially like A Jug of Punch, Tim Finnegan's Wake, The Rocky Road to Dublin, and Whiskey in the Jar. There are dozens more worthy of mention, but I leave them as exercises to the reader to discover and enjoy. Money quote from the Clancy Brothers, on A Jug of Punch: "It starts out very quietly, and very poetically... and rapidly deteriorates, just like a good night of drinking."

I've started running. Well, I tell myself that I have. I've only run twice, but if all goes well, this will be a regular, maybe even permanent thing. The ultimate goal is to be healthy and in shape, for my own benefit as well as for the girlfriend. It's really damn hard, considering that I haven't done any sort of regular exercise for at least three or four years. But I feel more alive and healthier than I have in a long time. I run around 3 miles or so, and toward the end I usually find my pace and start feeling a bit of runner's high. Being able to jump in the pool after the whole ordeal makes it all worth it.

Of course, I'm totally destroying any actual benefit the running may have by drinking myself to a stupor right now. But I don't really need to bother too much with that, as I'm skinny enough as it is. The running isn't for cosmetic reasons, it's for health reasons.

Speaking of music (jumping back to a few paragraphs ago), I have about five gigabytes of music from Dan to sort through and re-tag. (Using EasyTag of course.) A tedious task for sum, but, being the geek that I am, I'm rather happy at the prospect of listening to loud music whilst sorting through more of it. Oh, and choice picks from the music from Dan: "You Take My Breath Away" by The Knife, and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division.

Perhaps I shall post more over the rest of the weekend, but not likely; I'm heading home tomorrow after I wake up and make sure that I'm not still drunk. So this post, far from meeting the criteria set by the previous one, will just have to do. Deal with it.