Hello blog, and green tunes

It's been a while. I should be studying for my Economics of Environmental Protection (FRS somethingorother) midterm, but I'm not exactly sure how, and in any case, you've been on my mind.

I do intend to be more committed to this blog, and to my sister's advice on how to get it an actual readership. My excuse for putting this off is school, which occupies a lot of my attention. Hopefully my grand plan will find its fruition this summer. For now, since the only comments I've gotten from outside of my circle have remarked on my musical tastes, I thought I'd write on that note.

Until recently, I have been completely out of the environmental music loop. For a while I had listened to and adored the song "Dashboard" by Modest Mouse without really knowing what it was getting at. (All right, so I clearly wasn't listening closely enough.) I was saved by songmeanings.net. Apparently the entire album is Earth-themed. Cool, right?

Again, more recently, the Internet (Pandora this time) presented me with Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know." The song reminds me, almost to a T, of an actual place in my own memory, which is charming; likewise, it reminds me of the ways in which that place engendered in me a love of nature.

I get wrapped up in the idea of being an environmental loudmouth, and I forget that so many people are several steps ahead of me - making records, blogging, winning Oscars, et cetera. In my "Ideas" file is written "something not entirely egotistical." I guess - the prior blog entry to the contrary - I should get on that.