Ode To My IPod

Posted Nov 17, 2006 by Stacey Shick

Updated Nov 17, 2006 at 04:56 PM

I had a scare during Wednesday’s run, when all of a sudden, my iPod Nano froze. That had never happened to me before. I had just reached the sidewalk on Bayshore Boulevard and reached over to my arm to crank up the volume when the stopwatch function froze and the volume wouldn’t go up. I took my earbuds out for another mile or so, then I remembered how to reset it. Fortunately, I was able to get my tunes going again. I didn’t know how I was going to do 7 miles on my own, without tunes, especially on a day when I was having a hard time finding a groove.

It’s been almost a year since I went into full-scale hint mode about what I wanted for Christmas. I hadn’t been that persistent since I asked for an Apple IIc in elementary school. (My grandparents were so scared Santa wouldn’t bring me my computer that they brought their Commodore 64 to my house as a backup. They weren’t sure what I’d do if I didn’t get the Apple.)

The hints started innocent enough. “I think I’d like one of those little iPods for running.” After a while, I stepped it up. “Did you know you could get a Nano engraved if you order it off the Apple Web site? You could put my name on it!” Then I just got crazy. “Don’t you think a black Nano would look good with this skirt?”

Christmas morning, my boyfriend handed me a little box—with a shiny white Nano inside. It wasn’t the black I had wanted, but the engraving on the back more than made up for the color. A little cheesy maybe, but still inspiring everyday: “Don’t Give Up. Don’t Ever Give Up.”