cavernio (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cavernio) wrote,@ 2006-10-07 12:46:00 |
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The dichotomy of my life
Ok, dichotomy might not be the right word to use here because these aren't opposites, but I like the way it sounds.
As is usual for a Saturday at my parents', the radio's tuned to CBC and horks and corks (err, I know I'm not spelling that right, and I'm probably also getting the phonetics wrong). The radio, being in the living room, can be heard from my bedroom where I was/am. I was also listening to music on my computer. Moments after CBC begins a talk session where they're interviewing someone who won a Nobel Prize in biology or medicine (I listened enough to know that it was something to do with RNA), a song comes on which I like on my computer which, the instant it comes on, I know its going to be an instance of listening to it that I'm going to thoroughly enjoy. (It was a nighwish song.) I could either choose to listen to a key scientific finding, which would probably be explained very well as the show tends to do, where I might otherwise not ever hear about it barring actively searching for info about it (as if my laziness won't win over that battle), or I could listen to a song I've heard over and over, and which I easily have the power to listen to over and over where laziness is not likely to get in the way. I chose to listen to the music and then ponder my choice.
Ok, dichotomy might not be the right word to use here because these aren't opposites, but I like the way it sounds.
As is usual for a Saturday at my parents', the radio's tuned to CBC and horks and corks (err, I know I'm not spelling that right, and I'm probably also getting the phonetics wrong). The radio, being in the living room, can be heard from my bedroom where I was/am. I was also listening to music on my computer. Moments after CBC begins a talk session where they're interviewing someone who won a Nobel Prize in biology or medicine (I listened enough to know that it was something to do with RNA), a song comes on which I like on my computer which, the instant it comes on, I know its going to be an instance of listening to it that I'm going to thoroughly enjoy. (It was a nighwish song.) I could either choose to listen to a key scientific finding, which would probably be explained very well as the show tends to do, where I might otherwise not ever hear about it barring actively searching for info about it (as if my laziness won't win over that battle), or I could listen to a song I've heard over and over, and which I easily have the power to listen to over and over where laziness is not likely to get in the way. I chose to listen to the music and then ponder my choice.
