The iPod Shuffle

My iPod is broken.
More specifically, my 2GB iPod Nano's screen is broken. I can still upload songs and I can still listen to music, but I'm screwed when it comes to navigating the menu. When my iPod is off, I see four black stripes of varying band widths and the screen looks a bit like a section of a barcode. When I turn my iPod on, inky, black shapes--a triangle, a trapezoid, and a rectangle--are all that I see. I press the control wheel, skip forward, go backward, press pause, press play, and although I can't see what I'm doing, I can plug my headphones in and hear that my iPod is following my blind commands. But I can't scroll through my music library. I can't tell if I'm on playlists, songs, artists, changing time, or changing songs. I can't tell if I'm clicking on Britney Spears or Barry White, Arcade Fire or Aerosmith. There's no way of knowing what I'm subjecting my ears to.
Listening to my iPod, an activity that was one of the few things I had control over, has turned into a crapshoot.

My First Post

This blog is supposed to focus on music—album reviews, concerts that I attend, what I’m listening to, artists, etc. But since I have a lot of interests and lack discipline (I blame Adult onset ADD), I will probably get sidetracked. What you will find here are musings that yes, will be about music, but also posts about sports, fashion, my experiences as a transplanted Texan living in New York, and anything else that I want to write about.

I also began this blog to build discipline and confidence in my writing. It’s hard to put yourself out there but my fear of criticism and rejection is something that I will have to get over if I hope to one day write professionally. Another reason I started this blog is because my writing professor also hinted via handout how important it was to be blog savvy.