I can’t breathe.

Seriously, I swear, I have gotten sick more often this year than I have in recent memory. It sucks. It doesn’t help that I’ve seen the sun maybe once in the last three or four days, and I’ve been shanghai’d into mostly pointless training most of the week, which has thrown off my usual schedule, keeping me at the office later than is standard practice (and the “hey, you can sleep in!” idea doesn’t stick). It’s also that kind of sick where you feel not great and blow your nose through three boxes of tissues in a week, but you can’t quite justify staying home sick, especially when there’s work to be done.

So, I’ve been sitting listening to elementary-level contracts training all week, while trying to get my usual crap done in a couple of hours in the morning, then going home and crashing, hard, on Nyquil and chicken soup.

That’s honestly been my week. I knocked out my last FAWM tune, so I “won” with 14, though with how I’m feeling, I don’t think I’m going to get any more done. Oh well. I think I’ve got a theme EP and a couple of “hits” out of this one. We’ll see once I have my head and voice back.

Weekend plans include a drive out west for some theater, keeping an eye on the SC primary, but otherwise trying to beat this crap that’s taken up residence behind my eyes.

Anyway, tunes. Not a bad mix out of this one; some solid stuff, and a wonderful discovery (and a wonderful title) there at #4 that I’ve never heard before, but am kind of in love with; great rollicking rhythm.

Oh, I’ll leave you all with this, which was kind of inevitable: Mayor Pete fan fiction.

1. “Curious” – Sandbox
2. “Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)” – The Ramones
3. “Sleeping Angel” – Stevie Nicks
4. “Fuck, I Hate the Cold” – Cowboy Junkies
5. “Waiting for the Great Leap Forward” – Billy Bragg
6. “Ruby Soho” – Rancid
7. “Torn” – Edna Swap
8. “Summer of 89” – Butch Walker and the Black Widows
9. “Little Bribes” – Death Cab for Cutie
10. “Life in One Day” – Howard Jones
11. “Wreckless Abandon” – The Dirty Knobs
12. “16 Miitary Wives” – The Decembrists
13. “I Melt With You” – Modern English