Finding Things Again

What an odd week it has been. I’m feeling as if I’m caught up in a magnificent circulating machine where things that were before have come around again, although sometimes in a different shape.

First let’s start with the fact that a dear someone with whom I once worked – myself as a Web Designer and she as Librarian – has switched careers. She’s going to be a Web Developer. This is monumental for her on many a personal level, I’m sure. It’s also casting my thoughts back 7 years or so ago. How odd and lovely that we’ve switched careers so organically. I try to reach my mind back to 1999 or 2000, to remember when I first noticed what it was that she did and first envied her professional existance.

Did you know I’ve got a car now? She who would never buy a car has inherited one from her (okay, this is getting odd, from MY) grandfather. What’s odd is this: it drives just like the car I had in high school/college. What’s more, it only plays tapes. With the help of my fabulous tape assistant, Zack, I’ve been hunting down tapes over the last few weeks. Today I stopped into a Goodwill intending to look at couches and came out with 8 fantastic tapes! They are all of them tapes I had in high school. The most notable is the soundtrack to the movie Until the End of the World. I have not seen the movie, and I kind of don’t want to at this point – it might ruin the soundtrack. This soundtrack, purchased in some record store in the U-District of Albuquerque during a speech trip (we got snowed in) is what first introduced me to the wonders of (among others) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. I bought it, I remember, because it had three of my currently favorite bands – REM, Elvis Costello, and Depeche Mode. Today the tape was in the bin @ Goodwill, still shrinkwrapped. I listened to the first side of that album on my way home and I’ll be honest I felt like crying because it was so amazing to hear a song I had not listened to for more than ten years while driving that little blue car.

Probably most importantly, but also most vaguely (at this point, until it’s official), it looks as if I will soon be returning to a big time place of my youth. I haven’t lived there since I was 4 years old, but I hear that I loved it.