Music and developing (a day of mood swings)
During my day-to-day work as a developer, I go through a
number of moods (maybe more moods than what’s good for me), and I
thought I’d explain them with references to songs:
My day kind of starts with I hurt myself today (and some days end with it as well):
“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real”
Then, commuting to work:
“No stop signs, speedin’ limit
Nobody’s gonna slow me down”
Walk into the office:
“Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose”
“This place ain’t doing me any good”
“I used to care, but things have changed”
Then I get to my desk, and I feel like this:
“There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief,
There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief”
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke”
Code something, and run into trouble:
“I once believed
I wouldn’t bleed”
Trouble that makes me go out of my mind:
“I feel my world shake
I can’t look away
Hard to see clear
Is it me
Or is it fear?”
But then I find the solution:
“God Gave Me Everything I Want”
An occasional moment of despair, that eventually turns into solving the problem:
“Fight and pray”
“Oh happy day”
And then I go home… 
5 Comments/Reactions
April 10th, 2005 at 3:11
First I found this topic strange, but then I started to think about it and I found myself doing the same thing.
One popular song in my head during my bicycle ride to work is the excellent song “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” by R.E.M
It usually pop’s up in my head half way to work…
April 10th, 2005 at 3:11
Good one, I forgot about it, though it’s obvious!
April 12th, 2005 at 22:53
I often find myself singing (in my head, obviously!)
“I know I should have stayed in bed, my pillow wrapped around my head…This just doesnt seem to be my day….”
The Monkees circa 1967 or so….
Ok, I know I am so uncool, I’ll just slink quietly away now…..:-)
April 13th, 2005 at 9:37
> (in my head, obviously!)
Are you sure it’s only in your head?
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