On an unrelated note

Everyone gets music stuck in their head from time to time. J is STILL singing Christmas music, for instance. Yesterday I heard her humming the 12 Days of Christmas, and every once in a while I would hear her belt out, "Five GO-old RINNNNGGS!" from various places around the house.

JBL and I are equally succeptible to having songs planted in our minds, and we will tag each other for a cheap thrill. He'll get me with terrible 70's songs (Doctor My Eyes, being a prime example), and I'll retaliate with God knows what. I'm particularly sly, sometimes humming just a few notes subtly as he's walking by to get more coffee in the morning.

Most commonly, as is true with everyone, I have favorite songs or pieces of commercials repeating themselves in my mind, sometimes for days on end. Occasionally I will ruminate over words, phrases, or pieces of poems.

But for the past few days I have had the 3rd movement from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade going through my mind. In and out it floats. It even plagued me when I had a short bout of insomnia last night (is 2 hours short? I think so). I would love to dump it from my mental record player, but I can usually only succeed in that endeavor by actually hearing the music in question. Too bad my CD is all but lost, buried in the back of a dresser drawer with 1000 other discs (thanks JBL), making the drawer too heavy to actually open. ACK. I need release from this never-ending recording...