a burning bush will do nicely

i'm pretty sure i've mentioned it before, but i listen to my ipod on shuffle all songs, pretty much all the time. not only is my music completely crazy, but, by the special power of ipod random generation, i am sent secret messages.

you see, i believe that whatever song is playing on my ipod when i first press "next" in the morning, is a portent from god- a sign, if you will. examples:

• just the other day, i was walking down the street to "today" by smashing pumpkins. sure enough, i had a very good day.
• on my way out to a night on the town i listened to "the look" by roxette. i was on fire all night

so you see, it really does work. today, being my last day in melbourne, i was desperate to know what song was going to come up on my ipod. you can imagine the anti-climax i felt when i got air supply's "all out of love". i was wondering desperately what it was going to mean for most of the day.

but by midnight it had become startlingly clear: vsg never came to say goodbye.