makes the people come together

i don't understand how it is that sally sue is so against the concept of music in the workplace. i'm not talking big group stereo setup; i'm thinking more along the lines of walkman, just to give you some context. she says that she finds it difficult to work when there's any noise whatsoever. it distracts her.

this is utterly mystifying to me.

at this moment, i have removed my headphones for the first time today, because i couldn't think of anything to listen to (surely a sign that i have a moral duty to go out and spend money i haven't got on new tunes, wouldn't you say?). and i am both shocked and horrified by the kind of quiet we have in here. it's a palpable quiet, it's a vortex and a vaccuum, and i feel it setting its hooks into me as i type. it's a strange kind of quiet. it's the quiet of a suffering industry and a suffering staff, laboring away inside when it can see through the window that the traders downstairs are pouring out the doors of the building, early summer hours that will never take root in this flourescently lit room.

really. this place is depressing enough without having to listen to the drone of the lights and the occasional siren from outside. give me some sparkly drums and some jangly guitars any day of the week. let one less of my senses be so painfully aware of where i am and what i'm doing.

must...replace...headphones...now...but what to listen to?