[that is signed with a personalized doodle done (of me!) in the front cover by the artist himself. as he sat, exhausted after a concert, on the wooden floor of a very small bar in chicago several years ago.]

1. have major meltdown when artist boyfriend who happens to be staying over at your place for several weeks, because you want to show it to him, and you can't find it anywhere.

2. forget about it for a month or more.

3. have random conversations out of nowhere with strangers about not being able to listen to damien rice.

4. make a post about it.

5. have major meltdown trying to find a dvd that you want to take on a trip with you. find that dvd and the lost cd. (in the place that you were looking for it months before).

6. (optional) listen to "the professor". cry.