duck-shaped pain

I'm looking for the cheapest flight that will take me from here to Boston, and then for the cheapest train ride that will take me from there to New York and back again. I am planning a big, elaborate trip, you see, since I don't come out to the east coast very often, and might as well do all that I cam while I'm there. This trip will involve seeing people, going places, and, if I feel like doing such a thing while I am on vacation, research. However, I must, of course, pay the BFE surcharge on any flights out of here, so such things tend to be expensive. Unfortunately, the cheapest flights are on the horrible, terrible America West Airlines, something which I try to avoid at all costs, especially since flying with them includes a mandatory stop in Phoenix, possibly my least favorite place on Earth.

However, any price seems fair right now, considering that it will get me out of here.

The last few weeks have been right fruitful with regards to music purchases. Recently obtained:

• The Be Good Tanyas, Blue Horse

• Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood and Brush: The American Song-Poem Anthology

• Gamelan Semar Pergulingan: Gamelan of the Love God

• The Threnody Ensemble, Timbre Hollow

• Ned Rorem, Selected Songs

• Television Personalities, Yes Darling, But is it Art?

• Four Tet, Rounds

• The Gossip, Arkansas Heat

• The Postal Service, Give Up

I also ordered this (here is an actual review) after gazing at it longingly in a record store in San Francisco. I even carried it around with me and put back many other possible music purchases in preparation to buy it, but ultimately put it down. I found a copy of it cheap cheap on half.com, but I'm partially dubious, so we'll see if it actually comes.

Of course, I buy all of these and now I can't listen to music at work, due to some dubious reasoning (CDs make some other computers on the network slow, or so it seems) on the part of El Jefe. So, blearrgh.

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