Two things about birds

First, there is a bird outside my window that starts chirping at 1:00 in the morning. Seriously, that old adage that the early bird gets the worm... well this early bird is going to get IT if something doesn't change. You know, I hear about those people who deal with birds outside their windows by taking matters into their own hands going out and buying a shot gun, or a bb gun or something. I think to myself – these people are awful! How can you even think of killing an innocent bird?! That bird is just minding its own business taking care of her family, feeding her young, gathering worms for his baby birds. But I swear, at 3:15 this morning, I was about to crack. This is the second night in a row for the chirping bird. That in combination with the humidity which is slowing reminding DC residents that we do indeed live in a SWAMP… it’s almost too much.

Second, I was at the Borders the other day wandering around the music department and I sat down by the headphones which you can put on and listen to ANY CD IN THE WORLD – they claim. I am always in search of groovy tunes but for some reason I freeze up when I get to the Borders or the Barnes and Nobel or the Grey Whale CD Exchange. Too many choices. So I sat down, forlorn and picked up a CD with the back of a canary head on it. And I thought to myself, this can’t be too bad, it’s got the back of a canary head on it. And you know what… it wasn’t… Andrew Bird