daydreaming on the world wide web

there are altogether too many cool things on the internet. in fact, it's almost ridiculous that anyone could be expected to be productive at all at a job where the internet is not only accessible, but a necessary tool for completing work assignments.

do you ever catch yourself in a daydream somewhere thinking about something completely random and then try to retrace your mental steps to figure out exactly how you arrived there? i do this all the time. it's fascinating to me how the brain works in that way. the internet is kind of like this. i will begin, for example, on BBCi trying to find an idea for a script and end up buying concert tickets for a new band i'd never heard of until a couple of links before.

speaking of concert tickets. i'm in possession of quite a few at the moment. just this week, sarah and i will be attending a weezer/ringside concert in chicago on wednesday evening, an aqualung show in detroit on thursday evening, and then back to chicago for the live music event of the millennium on friday when we will experience coldplay at the smallest venue in which they've ever played. those tickets, incidentally, are worth a pretty penny. actually, according to ebay they're worth about fifty thousand pretty pennies. thanks to kristina at d&w, though, we only had to pay about 3000. (still pennies. but, pretty ones.)