I've done something right?!

You know, I just noticed this morning that I've been getting a lot less spam than I used to at my Yahoo email account. A while back, when I would get 15 to 20 spam messages a day, I got really fed up (even though I have them filtered into my spam folder) and started requesting to get off their mailing lists.

Now, I didn't have a lot of faith that such a tactic would actually work, but it must, because my spam has been significantly reduced. Go me. I've done something right!

On the Work Front:
I've been given some more possible donors/foundations to research. I really love this work, pouring over 990 forms (foundation tax forms), reading annual reports, and old archived articles of Boston Magazine. I feel like such a sleuth. And then I get to organize and summarize all the information into neat little packages. I love it.

On the Music Front:
I bought the new Turin Brakes CD yesterday--thanks to MOJO which informed of its existence. I read MOJO yesterday at Barnes and Noble because U2 was on the cover (hear that media/magazine people? Put U2 on the cover, and I'll read it!) and there was a huge spread on them--the kind of indepth coverage and interview I haven't seen since Rolling Stone Magazine interviewed U2 back in the 80s (read that on microfilm, I did, for a paper in college. Ah, college... where you can help your GPA by writing crap about a rock band).

Anyway, back to the Turin Brakes. The album is called Jackinabox and if you liked the previous album, you'll love this one. :-) I was quite happy at the discovery. All in all I spent about an hour in B&N listening to albums. I was very close to buying the new Nikka Costa album but when I discovered the Turin Brakes's new one, I put Nikka back (sorry, Nikka, but I am on a budget. Maybe next time). If you don't know Nikka, you should check her out. Her albums are full of funky dance-able music--the kind of which there isn't enough nowadays.

I also picked up The Very Best of the Stone Roses. I had burned some of their songs on to a disc back in college, but it's become a bit scratched, so I needed a fresh copy. I wish I had been older in the 80s--or at least precociously aware of pop music. I missed so much!