Sorry to future me for posting this so infrequently. I'm going to be missing a lot of details that I may wish I had later on down the line. But I think it's understandable to not want to do this kind of thing. There's way too much to get out and do here.
Went swimming in the Danube this week. Felt great. Nice and cool, deep, slow-moving... Just fantastic. Kylie taught me and Mac some gymnastics on the other side of the river when we swam across. I think we'll be going back sometime in the coming week to jump off the bridge. It seems like everyone thinks that the bridge is really high. I'm pretty sure it's only about 40 feet into an open river, so that seems pretty safe to me. Saw some kids do it when we were leaving and they swam right out. Hopefully I won't be the only one wanting to jump off.
Went back to Munich again this weekend to sample all of the local fare. I ended up getting a plate with (literally) fat with roasted fat on it. Needless to say, I didn't eat too much more of it when I found out what it was. Still kinda makes me cringe when I think about eating it...
Drinks were all good though. I really enjoyed the Franziskaner. I guess those monks knew how to brew.
Saw the Neuschwanstein castle as well. I'm told it's the most famous castle in Bavaria. And I can see why. That thing was amazing and it never even got finished. It's been cold and raining this weekend though. That's right. I said it. COLD. I've never been cold in July before. It was a really strange feeling.
DeWayne and Mac bought Lederhosen.
Back from Munich now and I'm going to get into a spiel about music libraries. Don't waste your time reading this if you don't want a bunch of opinions.
This all basically came up because Emily was letting me explore her iPod. Which was a really cool thing to do for a few reasons. First, cause she's giving me her iPod for a few hours. She didn't even ask for mine in return, she just gave me hers and said have fun. Second, because someone's iPod can say a good bit about them. I know that that's probably pretty obvious to most people, but it goes a lot further than 'Oh, this person has a lot of pop on their iPod. They must be a party person.' Emily's iPod was filled with more music that I'd never heard of before on a single media device than I'd ever seen. I consider myself to have a very broad taste in music. To be honest, I listen to some strange stuff. Not all the time, but it's just there. And Emily's iPod wasn't laden with just off the wall songs.
There were several bands that were just some guys she knew from high school or from around Auburn, there was a lot of folk music, there was foreign music, there was some really provocative/sensual music, there was classic rock and fun-every-now-and-then rap, and she had such a conviction behind the music I got to hear her talk about that made it all even more interesting.
Of course she had the extremely popular bands, but even those were different. It wasn't the same set list that you see on everyone else's RHCP list, for example.
It probably sounds kinda silly to be writing this just to express how privileged I feel to have been able to really pick through someones' entire music library like that. But I think everyone really grows attached to their music library. I even go so far as to get a little bit offended when someone asks me if they can wholesale copy my entire library for their new device. It feels like they're taking from me for some reason. I know that they won't like all of it. But than I know that if they didn't want to go through the trouble of slowly assembling a library that they're very familiar with, that they'll hear a song come on that they don't like and just say 'Meh' hit the next button, and never do anything with the song again. If you want to load up your device with music and never know what it is, who it's by, what it's about, or anything like that, be my guest. But don't ask for my music and then not sort it out and get to know any of it before some of it gets thrown down to the bottom of the barrel to rot on a portable HDD.
I doubt that she really thinks/thought about it like that when I asked her for her iPod, but I can't help but superimpose it into her decision making process. That is why I felt lucky. Because in my mind, she had given me the power to take HER music and potentially squander it entirely, but convinced herself that I would not.
I don't really WANT this to sound any one particular emotion. I haven't read back over this to see what this last bit has sounded like, and I don't intend to. I don't feel mad or anything while I'm writing this, but I have the feeling that anyone else who reads this will think I'm being either OCD or unreasonable about it. Oh well.
Need to wrap this up so I can get some sleep before I go meet DeWayne and Mac in the morning.
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