I can't say that I'm neither an enthusiast nor a detractor of classical music. I can respect and admire the skills required to compose the music and play the instruments, I can enjoy the occasional concert at the symphony. However, I can not tolerate, for extended periods of time, listening to a public all classical radio station at work. It makes time slow down, it shuts off my brain, makes me want to stare blankly at the ceiling and it bores a hole through my skull. When I have the radio on in the background while I work, it's to help the time seem to pass at a reasonable speed and it is not disruptive to any other employee. Time has a nasty habit of moving much slower than normal when peering through microscope lens or databasing or searching through thousands of specimens for hours at a time. For me it's wyep, except for when npr programming comes on wduq at three. It's variety in music and entertaining human interest stories and no commercials that make the hours of the day fly by. And generally, I have it only loud enough for me to hear, as soon as you step a few feet away from my work area, you can not tell there is a radio on. Lately I have not been working in my usual carved out niche, because of the current project I'm working on I'm stuck in someone else's environment, someone who listens to classical music at high volume. I actually got a headache today from it; there was no avoiding it, no turning it down for the selectively hearing impaired audience member. Another coworker in the same predicament expressed sentiments that I agreed with, "For the first time, I *wish* a radio station had commercials," in my head I completed the thought 'at least there would be something more interesting to listen to, something to break up the mind numbing monotony of this music!' Somewhere I have a portable cd player, I have to find it and dig it out. For if I'm going to maintain my sanity and make it home from work without a migraine through the course of this project, I need to have a variety of up-beat music selections to listen to.