I've been purchasing and listening to a lot of music lately.

It's the closest I can get to some detachment while working long hours and being very busy. And while work is good, and things are pretty nice right now, I always have that little nagging voice in the back of my head that trys to fill me with anxiety.

I figure if I turn the music up loud enough I can drown it out.

I've been listening to a lot of classical music, thanks to one of those multi-disc box sets of "The Classics" sold really cheaply. A fair amount I recognize, certainly not by name, but there's also a bunch I've never heard, and they make a nice soothing distraction in my head.

I go through phases where I don't want to listen to anything I've heard before genrewise, and look for something entirely different for a while (I've mentioned it before), and this seems to hit the spot for a while.

Also, this weekend I went to the Philharmonic and listened to live classical music, which was very nice, except I was so tired I nodded off for a bunch of it. I tried propping up my head in a way that would hide the fact I kept falling asleep in my chair, in spite of the good music. Luckily the seat was far enough back there was no one behind me to watch me nap over and over.