This morning on my way to work I had my "Owl City" Pandora station playing, and about 1/3 of the way to work Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" came on. My mind, heart, and attention were arrested by nostalgia for Europe.
Before Heidi and my trip, we took a prep class second block of Winter Semester 2010. On the first day of that class Professor Mark Hansen played a slideshow from the previous year's trip, which began with pictures from last year's students set to this song. I don't remember specific images from that slideshow, but I remember the utter sense of awe - a feeling that I was soon going to be standing and smiling in front of those same monuments in a distant land. I am really going to Europe, I thought, and this song was emblazoned in my memory alongside that realization.
Now every time I hear that song, whatever conversation or thoughts I was entertaining before are immediately bulldozed out of the way, with a warm, pervasive excitement and joy for the adventure of visiting Europe filling my consciousnesses.
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