The other night I was walking home from the T, and the sidewalk was in a different place. During the day, while I'd been gone, they'd re-routed a couple lanes of traffic and moved the sidewalk at least a few yards. I found this very disorienting; when I get off the T at 11:30PM, I just generally expect the sidewalk to be where I left it.

Now, I can't remember how the road and the sidewalk used to go. I know they were different last week, and I can make a few guesses based on where the current construction is and where the lines of the old traffic islands are and stuff like that, but I have no memory of what it looked like. This happens to me all the time; show me a gutted building, or a street where a building's been torn down, or anything that's been substantially changed from the way I'm familiar with it, and within a day or so, I can no longer remember what it was like before, even if it's a place I was very familiar with. I don't know if other people also have this problem (and I don't suppose it's a problem, exactly, it's just a little disturbing).

Today I am listening to and loving the Langley Schools Music Project, which is 19 tracks of a chorus of elementary-schoolers singing pop music, recorded in a rural Canadian school gym. It is pretty awesome.