So, a new phone (eeee! new toy!) and a new week. This one at least will be short -- Wednesday, I leave after work for the 8-hour overnight trek across the desert in the Silver Bullet™ (that's my car) to go visit my parents in Tucson. Just me, the car, the open road and the radio. I just hope I'm not drafted to help fight the wildfires while I'm out there. I'm tired and drained and spent a good portion of the afternoon doing work (which I hate doing in my time away from the office), and the possibility that I may have to find a new apartment by the end of the year has been officially raised. I hate the fact that I should be happy since things really aren't all that bad in my life, but instead all I can think about is what I don't have, how worn out I am and the lurking jealousy of others that I'm trying hard to quash. Here's the Sunday Most Listened-To Song o' the Week. I've been listening to the a cappella version done by UPenn Off the Beat, and I've fallen in love with the woman who does the lead... she's got such an amazing voice. Of course, I'm kind of in love with the original artist of the song as well... Sheryl Crow - "Anything But Down" I light your cigarettes I bring you apples from the vine How quickly you forget I run the bath and pour the wine I bring you everything that floats into your mind But you don't bring me anything but down You don't bring me anything but down You don't bring me anything but down When you come 'round You are a raging sea I pull myself out everyday I plea insanity Cause I can't leave but I can't stay You say, won't you come find me and yes is what I say You don't bring me anything but down You don't bring me anything but down Everything is crashing to the ground Maybe I'm not your perfect kind Maybe I'm not what you had in mind Maybe we're just killing time You with your silky words And your eyes of green and blue You with your steel beliefs That don't match anything you do It was so much easier before you became you You don't bring me anything but down You don't bring me anything but down Everything just crashes to the ground When you come around When you come around No more playing seek and hide No more long and wasted nights Can't you make it easy on yourself I know you wish you were strong You wish you were never wrong Well, I got some wishes of my own...