My life does not believe in being simple. In the last twenty-four hours I have ended one friendship (or at least put it on hold) and acknowledged the sea change of another as it becomes something rich and strange. In addition to those rather mystical pronouncements, I've talked to Rachel on the phone, gone to dinner with Rachel & Jeremy & Jim, bought too many CDs, and then had lunch with Rachel -- yes, lots of Rachel in my life. Plus I've planned dinner with Marith on Friday, and had dinner with Daniel on Tuesday, and I went to class last night, and oh yes I do work. Sometimes.

The CD list:

• Toad the Wet Sprocket, Fear
• Huffamoose, We've Been Had Again
• Mark Cohn, Mark Cohn
• Pump Up the Volume (soundtrack, actually on casette and very cheap.
• Hair (also the soundtrack, since they didn't have the OCR)

So far I've listened to Mark Cohn twice, Toad the Wet Sprocket once, and the first four songs from the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack. Perhaps I'll drag them down to LA this weekend, although I'm not sure if Earl would like any of them -- he doesn't tend to go for male vocalists.

Most of these CDs were bought due to listening to KFOG, which I started doing after Rachel sang its praises many times to me. Mark Cohn and Huffamoose, particularly; they were being played a lot this summer. Mr. Cohn has an amazing sweet-rich voice that just blows me away, whereas Huffamoose lyrics stick in my mind like thumbtacks. I'll report back once I've listened to the CDs a few more times.

Gaming tonight. And I'm somewhere beyond tired. We're doing the second session of the War on Chicago, which will then be put on indefinite hold because Czr will be back from Thailand this Sunday! It's too bad we can't keep running the Chicago thing, but it's a small price to play to have Czr back among us.

I found two books by Neil Howe and William Strauss last night at the Foothill library; Generations and The Fourth Turning. The former is about the generational cycle in history, and how future generational 'types' can be predicted; the second is about the cycle of history itself, and how the generational types interact with it. So far they're awfully squishy. I feel almost like I'm reading astrology books -- the descriptions of the generations seem so facile.

Fortunately, since they're making predictions, I can just sit back and know that time will tell.