I've got the music in me

When I was in high school, I used to listen to loud music while I did my homework. Usually metal of some kind, probably most often Guns N Roses.

This infuriated my mother. Most times she would come in and tell me to turn it off, that I wasn't concentrating. Other times I would wear my Walkman and when she called for me, I couldn't hear her. That didn't go over well either.

But, though Mom didn't believe me, I will tell you, dear readers, that music does indeed help me focus. I remember my stepmom telling me that a teacher once gave my nephew a one-legged chair because focusing on that helped him in class. I think that's the reasoning behind my love of music while I work. My head is always two places at once and if I hear the music (at a lower volume now) I strain ever so slightly to hear it over other ambient noise. That noise can be as simple as the click of the keyboard as a type or as annoying as a trash truck outside the open window of my office.

My cousin gave me a couple of CDs recently and while I was working on my most recent deadline I listened to them (I usually listen to an independent radio station, but I really wanted to check out these albums).

So I'm listening to the Across the Universe soundtrack and I notice that I actually stop typing between songs. All of a sudden I'm blank, like one of those toys that stop when someone walks out of its path. I also lose my vocabulary (typing) and make more typos. Am I completely insane?

I would go on, but I have to go put in another CD.