Listing Slightly

As of late my thoughts have become rather structured, thus I have given in to obsessive list making. It's more than things to do, buy, sell or organize; it's more abstract. Like I spent over an hour the other day thinking about what would be on my celebrity iTunes playlist, if I were indeed a celebrity commissioned to make just such a list. It is a good list, but it's 30 songs long.
The countdown to the invasion of Iraq was the spring of my senior year of college, and for some reason my friend Dylan and I took it as a sign that the "civilized" world as we know it was perilously close to blowing up and we became obsessed with what we would do in such a situation. Like we would be in a bar, talking about sources of vitamin C in the winter months.
Since then this topic has become a favorite of mine, especially in the list making department. There are lots of lists to be made about the end of the world. For example: what to pack and why. Who do I bring and why. Where do I go? What should I learn between then and now? What should I purchase for my end of the world survival pack?
Between books I've been reading and the current situation of the world I've come to see that we are past due for a major disaster, and I don't say that in a fatalist, wear-a-sandwich-board-and-yell sort of way, I say that in a very logical, scientific way. We as a planet go through major periods of geographic and meteorological upheaval, and to have had such a stretch of relative calm for so long is not only abnormal it's scary.
And I've lost my steam.
Sorry that's it, I'm falling asleep.
So yeah, I made these two lists (the packing for disaster and/or iTunes) . I'll post 'em if I have the chance.