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I want to go here. I have never been. Not that I have money to spend or need anything in particular, but holy crap, did you see the list of stores? This summer, Amy, this summer...

Worked in the office today. It's not so bad since I like the people and they're used to me being with the kids so every time a teacher had to go to the bathroom I was on 3-minute sub duty, but I'd rather be doing things other than entering information in data bases and answering phones. Still, it's money, and money is good. Just as long as they don't get any ideas about me being an office person next year...

Seriously, check out pandora.com. You give it the name of a band or a song you like and, using extremely specific components of the band/song from the Music Genome Project, it starts playing other music it thinks you will like. The more bands and songs you put in, the more versitile its selections become. Then you can tell it if you like a song or not and it uses that to refine what it plays. It's been finding all kinds of stuff I really like and have never heard of. When I click on the "Why did you play this song?" thing for Crooked Fingers' Dignity and Shame (which I thoroughly enjoyed) it tells me, "Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features mellow rock instrumentation, acoustic rhythm piano, acoustic sonority, major key tonality, and many other similarities identified in the music genome project." How fucking awesome is that?