What's your theme song?

A question I just read on the knittyboard was “What is your theme song?” I had to really think about this, as I have probably hundreds of favorite songs, but not just one song that I would attach to myself. I went to the iPod and dug around for a bit. Here’s what I came up with: “The Book of My Life” by Sting (of course), from the Sacred Love album.

Let me watch by the fire and remember my days
And it may be a trick of the firelight
But the flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a book I'm afraid to write

It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life
And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
And it's all there to see as the section reveals
There's some sorrow in every life

If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze
Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days
I'm still forced to remember,
Remember the words of my life

There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies.

Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life

There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat,
There's a page where we fail to meet

There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned
There's a chapter on god that I don't understand
There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see

Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life

Now the daylight's returning
And if one sentence is true
All these pages are burning
And all that's left is you

Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life

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Looks like I’m going to Austin in May to attend the Council of Science Editors annual meeting. CSE is the professional organization that all of the MEs at AP belong to. I’m not sure exactly when I’m leaving and coming home, but I’m guessing I’ll arrive on the 18th and stay until the 22nd. I’ll be attending a short course all day on the 19th about publication management, then various sessions the next 3 days on topics ranging from open access, to dealing with non-native English-speaking authors, to changing trends in print and electronic journal production, and how to use Word to its fullest. I’m excited to be attending the meeting, but I’m not too jazzed about traveling with others. There are 3 of us in my department who are going, and while I get along fine with the others, I would just as soon travel by myself. Kinda sucks that I’ll be away from home for that long too. By my calculations, that will be a non-Brady weekend, so Shane will be home by himself. He’s not going to be too pleased when he finds that out. Poor guy doesn’t like to be without me for too long.