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Well, things have been going well on this end. Due to a few different reasons, I've been spending most of my time here in Cambridge with Colleen. This generally happens anytime I've been out of school for an extended period of time, as I'd never see her otherwise! I try and help out around the house to compensate for the extended hospitality provided for me by Co's family, so it seems to be a fairly workable relationship.

My computer usage is defintely a little different when I'm living remotely. I'm behind on blogging and most of my news reading. Just as important, I find myself away from most of my music collection. A look to the smaller than top-10 box to the right shows that my listening activity has certainly been affected.

But with scarcity comes appreciation. In the car, I'm armed with a small but trusty fragment of my home collection in the form of a CD binder. And my mp3 player seems to provide me with enough music to keep me stimulated. Like many folks, I can't quite afford the huge-capacity mp3 players that would enable me to carry around my entire collection. So I normally put some thought into some essentials that I like to have with me.

So what do I take with me? Well, I I try to carry around a rotating mix of different genres and moods to satisfy most cravings. I also try and incorporate some albums I haven't listened to in a little while to keep things fresh. Recent favourites have been Editors' The Back Room, 30 Seconds to Mars' A Beautiful Lie and Death from Above 1979's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine.

But what I really want to know is what sort of albums my readers feel they can't live without. I've thrown together a sampling of the ones I mentioned below. Given the positive reception to the iMeem usage a few posts back, I figure I could cobble together a playlist based on the responses I receive.