Llanoland

https://www.last.fm/user/Professor_Steve/listening-report/year/2025/month/3

March was when I was obsessed with Pvris. Excellent albums; why was I so unfamiliar? 

I'm listening to her still (her, I think? It seems there's a band but most of what I read says it's her, like Nine Inch Nails is to Trent Reznor) but also listening to all sorts of other good stuff coming out. 

I've been getting into ambient music quite a bit and Apple Classical, at least while I have it free for 3 months, is a great addition however it doesn't really appear on Last.fm like it should. 

This video seems to suggest that there's a band? I'm very confused. Anyway, this is my favorite tune from them/her at the moment. 

https://www.last.fm/user/Professor_Steve/listening-report/week

Music listening down since the winter. I wonder why that happens?
Perhaps I listen to more music during the cold days. Maybe I don't notice it? I feel my listening amount has stayed the same. 

Last.fm is so important to me as the data - when I look at it - makes me consider my relationship with music. It raises a lot of questions for me that force me to create explanations and accounts, which is great rhetorical practice. 

I heard this song on the radio the other day and I felt quite sad as I really saw the connection of it to many of the experiences I have been having this semester. Plus, the meta of remembering listening to this song in college and really liking it. Even the like of the song has changed (faded) from the meaning and association I developed at first (shimmer).

Really getting back into pop music this month, but how could I not? There are so many good releases right now. I also have a trial of Apple Music and I'm wondering if I should keep it. It doesn't work well with last.fm however so that's a big strike against it. 

This song is too good. I hope the rest of the album is as good. This song really hits me, I love it! 

In two years I will have been a professor for 20 years. Too long to do anything!

I should have left much earlier; now I don't think I can leave!

It's a bit much trying to adjust to the students' incapability all the time. But what else would a teacher do? 

This term is nearly over, and my run as an authoritarian did not work out well at all. I thought I'd try it as my colleagues get such joy out of this kind of power. I wanted to see what the fuss was about. There's no fuss and nothing about. 

In the fall I shall go totally lax to pay back some of the karma. Not sure it works like that but we'll hope.

Four weeks left of this nonsense then the summer for thinking.

Should I refresh every old computer I work on? Probably.

However I think that if a computer works and can do the tasks that you need it to do, just leave it alone. 

This old Macbook has been backed up and I removed a bunch of software from it that is outdated or no longer working. Seems fine. I think I'll just leave it as a writing machine - one that is distraction free because trying to run a Google Search on it takes longer than it does to make a cup of coffee in the Keurig. A big cup.