Griping first, music stuff second

Gah! People are such idiots. I just went to the convenience store on campus, and I really should just know better than to go there for anything. First, they're ridiculously overpriced - $1 for a regular sized candy bar, $1.35 for a pack of Orbit gum - is it just me, or is that way overpriced? I mean, I know anything sold on campus is going to be marked up, but still. There's marking up, and there's gouging. And then they have students working the registers, and either they don't train them properly or they're just brain dead and don't care, because they always screw things up. I have $2.25 left on my employee meal allowance for the day. Instead of running the $2.25 through on that and asking for $.75 cash, WHICH I HAD TO GIVE HER, she ran the whole $3 through on my faculty/staff charge. Which is like a credit card account we have through work, and which I do NOT want to charge anything to. It's not a huge deal - I can straighten it out in the office when the stream of students going through the office ends. Still. It's just annoying. And I needed to vent, so thanks for listening. :)

And now, so that this whole entry won't be just me complaining about stupid crap, here is an entry copy and pasted from my Sims 2 livejournal. I got tagged there for a music meme, and thought you guys who don't care about the Sims 2 stuff might like to see what I was listening to yesterday when I wrote this. Enjoy!

Here is the explanation: "List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Live Journal (and blogger!) along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to."

I got tagged for this last week, but hadn't done it yet, because while I love music, and listen to it in the car and at work all day, I didn't really have any songs that I was listening to on repeat. Well, today I started a new station on Pandora, and the artist I put in to start the station with was Bonnie Raitt. The station is giving me some really great, bluesy sounding stuff, mostly by women, and I'm really loving the sound of it. So I'm going to keep this window open as I listen, and mark down the ones that I particularly love.

First, two that have already played:
"Whatever Gets You Through the Night," by Etta James.
"My Favorite Mistake (live)," by Sheryl Crow.

One that was on while I was typing that:
"There Must be a Better World Somewhere," by B.B. King.

And look at that, the very next song is another good one:
"Dr. Feelgood (Love is a Serious Business)," by Aretha Franklin.

A couple of songs later, the second song I've gotten on this station by this artist. I like her a lot, so far:
"Wait for Me," by Susan Tedeschi. I hope they play more of her stuff - I'm kind of thinking I want to buy it.

Another couple songs later:
"And it Stoned Me," by Van Morrison.

And okay, I was going to wait for a song that really knocked me over to finish this list, but my Pandora just broke, because my work computer is old and slow, so I'll end it with this:
"Fast Car," by Tracy Chapman.

All good songs that got me through a chunk of my boring work afternoon. I have four stations created on Pandora right now, and I think this one is my favorite by far.

Oh, also - I'm not tagging anyone, but if you haven't done it already, I'd love to see what songs you pick if you decide to do it. :)