One of the guys at work got an iPhone when they came out Friday night, so my first half hour of the day was spent softly caressing it in envy. It is one cool little gadget. I don't think the guy got too much work done today, because every time I walked by his bay, there were two or three people in there also playing with it. I think you all could probably start placing your bets now on how long I'll be able to hold off on buying one.

This work week is lasting forever. At least the 4th is this week and we get Wednesday off. Oh, wait...I already get Wednesday off, so I still have to work a 5 day week. Classic.

I didn't sleep well last night, and in fact, have not been sleeping well for about a week. I keep waking up for no reason early in the morning and then can't get back to sleep. I keep waking sometime between 4:30-5:30am, wide awake. I long for the jet lagged nights of a few weeks ago when my biggest complaint was that I was sleeping too much. I think it's all caught up with me, though. I'm planning on a 9 o'clock bedtime tonight.

The song of the day is not from the 80s, but it's been on my mind lately. It's "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet off his 1991 album of the same name. I think a friend turned me on to this record and I fell instantly in love with Sweet's indie guitar driven pop. I was at Tower Records in Portland one day after classes and saw a notice that he would be in the store later that day signing CDs. I rushed home to tell my friend and we headed back over to the store, CDs in tow. The poor guy, pretty unknown in the mainstream, was there all by himself, not a single person in line. He was in town to play at a place called Oaks Park, and if you're from Portland, you know that's not exactly the place to be seen playing if you want to be taken seriously. Matthew was a good guy, signed our CDs and talked to us for awhile. We told him good luck playing to the roller skaters at the park.