ok. it's over. i give.
today i bought an ipod.
why have i been putting this off for so long? for several reasons:
1. i don't like apple - it seems like they want to put everything under their singular control (which is what good businesses do) and i don't like it. i want freedom. plus, i like buttons, and they want to rid the world of all buttons.
2. i don't like the apple store - all white and empty. all young salespeople with brightly colored t-shirts "happily" greeting you at every turn. makes me sick. haha, okay, not really, but it is a little much when i just wanna browse. plus, they all think i'm a punk or something and they don't want to help me buy stuff because they think i have no money. haha, okay, that's way overexaggerated, but i was in there today and first of all there's like 18,000 people all over the place, then they've got people having computer lessons and people wanting to buy things and salespeople talking to people and kids playing computer games and nerds doing computer speak all over the place. serenity now! and where are the checkout counters?! no, they're too good for checkout counters. they just carry around smug little credit card swippers in their pockets. all i wanna do is pick up an ipod box (which they don't even have), take it up to the counter, pay, and be on my merry way.
3. i need to be connected to the planet - and not disconnected from it, which is what i fear i will be if i've got music playing in my ears all the time. i like silence, and listening to the sounds of the world.
4. accessories - it's no good just to buy the ipod, you've gotta buy a docking stereo, and a car adapter, and a case, and whatever else. it's just buying a product, it's buying into a concept.
but, there are some very good reasons for finally buying one as well:
1. itunes - i started using itunes because they've just got tons of songs, old, new, instrumental, japanese, whatever. so when i started buying songs off of itunes, i knew it would just be a matter of time before i'd have to give in and get an ipod.
2. i worked for it - the money is not a big factor because i worked some extra days this summer so that'll pay for it, but the bigger concept here is that i need something to make the work week better. i think this might do it.
3. breakfasts - i make breakfast every morning before work and i can't see the tv from the kitchen, and my stereo is in the bedroom. so this little ipod and speaker dock will sit on my kitchen counter playing wonderfully motivating music while i'm making and eating breakfast before i have to hike it out to work.
well, the numbers don't quite work out... but i've still got one. so far, i like it. the big test will be when work starts in a couple days, but now i'm thinking i've got something to look forward to right?
4 comments:
Wow, that was a pretty quick decision Haha =) Nice choice, though. I love the speakers...
dude. first off, yay.
but secondly, look how much trouble you had with vista.
buy a macbook. it'll be worth it. promise promise.
i'm stuck on a PC in the office, and it's driving me crazy! mac attac. once you go mac, you can't go bac.
anyway. iPods rule. if you bought a laptop, you could've gotten a free iPod. my brother got his touch ipod for free.
and, i lost your number. email it to me, like now. =)
hahahahahahahaha, after the whole ipod discussion that we had last school year, i laughed hard when i read you gave in. nah, school will be way more bearable now. when warren has an annoying kid, in goes my ipod. when i have to work on a report and i just need to block out stuff, in goes my ipod. when i have a crappy kid or a crappy meeting, in goes my ipod and pink goes on.
One of us! One of us!
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