somehow I stay thin

For most of the past week, I could hear a nagging little voice in the back of my head. It told me that I really ought to check in with the office, so as not to be buried under an avalanche of work upon my return from vacation. Unfortunately, that little voice was easily drowned out by the calamitous licensed din that is the Knights of the Old Republic games.

As a result of my placing a higher priority on foiling the machinations of virtual Sith Lords than on occupational responsibilities, I've spent the last few hours attempting to resolve a week's worth of job tasks in the space of a single 7.5 hour shift. It hasn't been a pleasant experience, but it's considerably less onerous than, say, mowing the lawn is. The only real worry I have is that this frenetic pace and the hyper-density of the data in need of stroking, smoothing, and crunching might trigger the dreaded Tetris Effect where all sensory input gets contextualized in terms of the process.

It hasn't happened so far, thankfully, so I think it's safe to say that--

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Damn, damn, and damn...

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure (from Hot Space, 1982) - I know nothing of this "Ice Ice Baby" of which you speak, stranger.

LiLiPUT - Blue Is in a Rush (from Kleenex/LiLiPUT, 2001) - Classic femvox postpunk from the land of watches, cuckoo clocks, and untraceable bank accounts.

Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush (from Planet BAD: Greatest Hits, 1995) - This is the shorter, three-minutes-and-change version of the song, which I prefer to the slightly self-indulgent original.