i think my iPod is dead. i was listening to music in the car friday and it wouldn’t play certain songs; it would hang and skip and then move to the next song, where it might do that again. it seemed limited to certain songs so i figured it was bad blocks, but now i plugged it in to the laptop to swap the music before driving home tomorrow, and it’s been displaying the picture that seems to imply it’s checking its disk (a spinning platter with a superimposed magnifying glass; i can only assume that they thought explanatory text would confuse us or something), for like fifteen minutes now.

don’t be dead, poor baby ipod! i love you! i know you’re four years old or something, and nobody uses 5G ipods anymore, but i still love you!