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I’m not sure how they mixed up, but it would seem that my office phone and my office computer are tied together. Not the whole computer, really, just iTunes. Here’s the skinny.

When I am at work, I have iTunes open and listen to my music at a reasonable volume to keep me from going insane. When the phone rings, I always pause whatever song I’m listening to just in case whoever is calling can hear it. Plus I probably enjoy the song and don’t want to miss any of it. So I talk to whoever is calling, hang up, and resume enjoying my music. It’s a decent system when it works, but it doesn’t always work.

Sometimes the person calling wants to talk to someone who I can’t find and I have to run all over the building looking for that person. Sometimes the phones go crazy and I will get four or five calls in the span of just a couple minutes. Sometimes the phone call leads to me having to do something away from my desk. In these instances, my iTunes sits idle for a much longer period of time, and from time to time I’ll forget I was listening to something and thusly forget to unpause it.

Whenever the silence or background noise of my co-workers starts to get to me, I’ll remember to start my song back up, and it’s at this moment that the connection between my computer and the phone becomes annoyingly apparent. The longer my iTunes sits on pause, the greater the likelihood that unpausing it will result in an incoming phone call within a few seconds, requiring me to pause it again almost immediately. It’s incredibly frustrating and nearly bulletproof in reliability. At this point, when I realize that iTunes has been paused for awhile, I’m tempted to just turn it off to keep the phone from ringing.

In other news, according to this recent Gallup Poll (click here to just see the question/results without leaving the page), I will never be president. I don’t know why not believing in God would make me a worse candidate than George W. OMG How Did This Guy Get Elected Twice Bush, but apparently it is worse than being older than dirt or gay. Not that I don’t think an old man or a guy dude couldn’t be president. At least the numbers are good for blacks and women, although I really don’t think I see Obama getting the Democratic nomination; his name sounds too terrorist-y (but I hope I’m wrong).