Your camera's okay when I'm gorgeous.

My great mood from the other day coincided with Joe’s birthday, so I decided to make him a mixed cd entitled “Don’t you love it when pretentious college students who lack any familiarity with your musical tastes whatsoever are so presumptuous as to make you a mixed CD for your birthday?” and left it in his door without a name.

I tried to make it pretentious yet listenable; including such as “Nietzsche” by The Dandy Warhols, some Massive Attack, some old punk and Pixies for campus cred, William Shatner, Ween, Tom Waits, and of course, the token Japanese underground metal track. It was all guessing. Then the next day, he walked up to me on the 6^th deck aft with this smile and said “thank you.”

Being the worst liar on the planet, I couldn’t hide the grin as I tried to feign confusion. “For what? Teehehehehee”

He said I was the only person on the ship who “had the ability to guess some of the things on that track list”

Then tonight he told me he finally got a chance to listen to it and that I was spot-on with his favourite Ween song, the Tom Waits, Massive Attack, and “a good amount of the CD”

Hell yeah.

Six people want me to make them CDs. The best excuse I've ever had for being late ever is “I was in India/Malaysia/South Africa."