my iPod is mourning dead celebs this week

my friend Robyn has always attested that her iPod can read her mind. i'm beginning to think that my iPod has a mind of its own.

let me explain. on Monday, i went for a run on the trail after we shot our weekly high school analysis videos (there is nothing more inspiring that seeing your fat face on video). i've been running 3-4 times a week these days and it's fun.

i'm fat so i'm not going to pretend that i can straight up run 15 miles. my workout consists of 3 to 3.5 miles and it usually takes about 35-45 minutes, which equals between 9-12 songs on the iPod. i usually run for 1-2 songs, walk for a song, rinse and repeat. and on my iPod, i have a set of playlists that are set to reflect that running strategy.

but i get bored easily. so as much as i like my Michael Jackson mix and my Black-Eyed Peas mix and my Usher/Ne-Yo mix... and a mix that has Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber on it, the 10 playlists that i was running to were becoming too repetitive.

so for the past month or so, i've been running on shuffle. i place my iPod on shuffle and i run, walk and leave my playlist to chance. i am pretty much at the mercy at the iPod because if it's time for a running song and the iPod decided to throw JT's "Lovestoned/I Think She Knows Interlude" at me, i'm then running for a solid seven minutes and 24 seconds. if i'm running and the iPod decides to throw the interlude to Usher's "Superstar" at me, well that is a fun 65 seconds of sweat.

so i am on the trail on Monday and it's time for a walking song and this one comes on. now, there are 35 Michael Jackson songs on my iPod so this may be just a coincidence but i couldn't help but think that my iPod had been monitoring the TMZ website throughout the afternoon in anticipation for the Conrad Murray verdict that was released a couple of hours before my run.

so that was weird. and then Tuesday happened.

i have one Heavy D song on my playlist. and Now That We Found Love came up as a run song when i was on the trail on Tuesday afternoon... and Tuesday also happened to be the day the Heavy D died. my iPod was obviously in mourning.

so my iPod has a mind of its own. i have no idea how it's going to address the Penn State scandal and the deaths of Andy Rooney, Joe Frazier and the Family Circus guy.

Justin Bieber, play us out.