Where is music? Music gone?

Yup. Headphones at work have gone bye-bye. And for no apparent reason other than to make my life just a tad more miserable. I was listening to music while working or whatever the fleeting hell you wanna call my activities while here at work, and a few songs sounded a little weird. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's and Mamas and Papas - California Dreamin'. Half the vocals were missing. Oh well, thinks I... the plug has probably come undone a bit. I was correct. Plugging it all the way in, the MSI sound driver program thingy pops up, in which you can play around with equalizer settings. I click randomly for a few minutes, and it's all good fun, making the music sound like you're under water, or in a huge arena or in a stone hallway. I'm amused, it's all good.

But they were all of them deceived! Or... I was, at least. Because it turned out, I couldn't make it go back to normal standard nice to listen to music. Oh no. It was weird. I goofed around with that damn program for hours, unplugging and replugging the cable. Listening to Alanis' Ironic everything would be just swell for the first verse, then at the chorus, it'd be muffled and the vocals would be distant and obscure. "My dear lord, what have I done.. what HAVE I done", thinks I, and for a fleeting moment I contemplate knocking my closest colleague unconscious to nick his headset. I do end up lending it to test, and it turns out sound and music is in perfect sync and harmony with his headset. Blast! Mine is broken. My only refuge in days where I'd rather run face first into a brick wall has been violently snatched away from me. The escapists only escape... gone.

My colleague, in a moment of unprecedented insight and generosity, says I can borrow his for a while. And I, in a moment of unprecedented stupidity and refusal to allow others to see my weakness and need of help, reject his offer. Now, I'm without music, and the sad thing is, I'm almost willing to listen to it through my broken headset... even tho it sounds like the music is coming through a huge pipe. Damn my pride, damn my luck.