life and puppies

It’s time for me to come clean about something.  I have a strange affinity for college a cappella groups.  Not in any perverse way (at least not in the traditional sense), but for someone who can’t sing worth a damn, is often scared of theater-y people (Sarayu being a very notable exception) and is way out of college, it’s probably not the norm.  I didn’t really even know about these groups until law school when my cousin Andy’s group from Carleton came down to perform with other groups at the UW.  I was totally floored.  How can it not be fun to see kids singing the Safety Dance making all sorts of kooky noises that force an instant giggle?  Well, Terry & Steve were loving it, too, and we fell in particular love with a group from Northwestern.  So, what to do when this happens?  Naturally, we find out their schedule, pack up the car & Maggie and drive down to Evanston for a nice supper and a show.  Of course, we were certainly the only non-Wildcats in the small, kwonset hut-like space for the performance.  It was kinda awkward.  I was beginning to think that we had gone too far and sort of shut that chapter in my life for awhile.  Until today!  I am coming back out of the closet as someone who thinks these groups are weirdly cool and uber-enjoyable.  What sparked my return to my love today, you ask?  You know that commercial for some Windows thing that may or may not be called Mojave?  It has a song in it that every time I hear it, I think it’s going to be that Bodeans “Oh no no, don’t pass me over” song, but then it’s not.  And then I instantly have an unsatisfied craving for that Bodeans song.  Well, today I decided to do something about it!  I decided to download it on itunes, only I had to first figure out what it was called.  The first site google took me to (and you really have to love google for this — I feel it was playing cupid) was this. And from there I was hooked again.  And now I bring you this.  So fun!  Right?  Please say right.