I was reading outside today taking advantage of the fact that for the first non-rainy day in what seems like weeks (actually only 3 days, although only the second in a week and it's been cold) I was distracted by a couple of LLM (international) students coming out to the Toyota Plaza having a loud conversation. The pair of Desis were speaking loudly enough that the other people having quiet conversations out there had to speak up to hear each other, and it was definitely enough to distract me greatly from my readings.
Not wanting to pick up and go inside, I decided that I would put on my iPod in order to drown them out. It was a difficult choice, though because I did not want to be distracted by the music that I chose. Of course, I have a fair number of lyricless (or semi-lyricless/non-english) music on it; soundtracks, opera, german polka stuff.... I chose to put on the Mozart Symphonies.
It took very little time before I was more distracted by the Mozart than I likely would have been by some pop-music crap. The intricate and interesting melodies and harmonic brilliance distracted me from the dull discussion of voting rights in corporate entities quite easily.
I'm going to need to find something that will not be quite so distracting. Interesting, lyricless, but not so interesting as to be distracting. . . . any suggestions?
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