Somewhere along the line I picked up a real aversion to noise. I notice everything, like the whistle of my computer’s hard drive, and people at work scrolling fast with their mouse wheel. Sure I should just get over it, but I’m getting old.

Enter my new Sennheiser noise-canceling headphones! Thanks to my Sweets and her incredible gift-idea-generating-brain, I can now peacefully tune everything out except whatever my ePod is transponding. I love ‘em and recommend them to anyone who wants to listen to music rather than music plus people in the cube next to you eating apples, for example.

All weekend I’ve been listening to movie soundtracks while writing my magnum opus about a rat-person trying to escape capture by a group of robots. Still going!