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Date: 15 December 2005 13:44:58
I was listening to El cant dels ocells.
It's a Christmas song, about birds excitedly telling each other about the nativity ("la nit mes ditxosa"). But it's a very mournful tune.
(In fact my all-time favourite Christmas song also has a pretty mournful tune - which tells you something about my attitude to this time of year.)
The nature of my work is that things build up and up before Christmas, but stop a week or two before the actual day. So there's then a lull, and that swing from puffing to nothing always catches me out and leaves me in a reflective frame of mind. That tune seemed to capture my mood perfectly while the words captured what I should have been thinking.