| January 25, 2006 Mary Timony - "Dr. Cat" It is the summer after freshman year -- a hard summer for me. I am stuck back home again after a year at Colgate, my first taste of independence, and it is hard to come back to Bridgewater. Most of my best friends and my boyfriend have all just graduated, and I haven't yet begun to figure out how to reconstruct my life at Colgate without them. I have even shut down the blog for a while. I have been struggling with the feeling that everyone thinks only political blogging is worthwhile and my personal writing is just silly shit that no one cares about. I have just found the new Mary Timony CD in a box from Amazon on my doorstep and I am listening to it as I drive the old green Caravan to Middleboro for some horseback riding. I've heard it before, of course, since Dave and I went to the Mary Timony concert early in the summer and listened to it in the car on the way there as well. It is becoming more and more clear that the mood of this CD almost exactly matches my mood this summer. On the way back from riding I would find it necessary to actually pull over into a parking lot and cry for a few minutes while "The Owl's Escape" played in the background. But now, on the way there, I am listening to "Dr. Cat", and as it goes into the instrumental bit I am entering the Middleboro Rotary. This rotary is just a plain circle with no traffic lights or even lanes, and cars just drift in and out as they need to. As I circle around, drifting towards the center, the rising notes coincide with my driving so that it feels like the van and I might take off flying at any moment, over the roads and trees and clouds to some far better place. Though I want to, I won't want you Link for posterity's sake:
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