Insomnia is a terrible thing, but if you're going to suffer, you might as well turn your bleary-eyed, twitchy lemons into musical lemonade. That's why, last night, somewhere between an optimistic 2:00am and a cranky, defeated 4:30am, I made my girlfriend another mix.

The reason is simple. Rebecca is leaving her job, and this, my friends, is a VERY good thing. For Rebecca hates her job. Loathes it. And now, she gets to walk away. Tossing her "I live for caffeine" coffee mug into the trash and tearing the "Get Fuzzy" cartoons off her beige cubicle wall. Rebecca is a liberated woman. In September, she will take her rightful place in the hallowed libraries of academia, where she will pursue a Masters in Library Science.

This is my soundtrack for her moment. Done with work. Not yet begun with school. Hopefully, madly in love with yours truly.

1. "I Think I Wanna Die" - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
2. "Buildings and Mountains" - The Republic Tigers
3. "Obvious" - Vancougar
4. "Forty Feet (acoustic)" - Franz Ferdinand
5. "Don't Worry Baby (fragment)" - Alex Chilton
6. "10 Dead Dogs" - Wild Sweet Orange
7. "Danny Callahan" - Conor Oberst
8. "Summer Song" - Atmosphere
9. "I Can't Get You Off My Mind (live)" - Hank Williams
10. "Tokyo Moon" - Windmill
11. "Sex on Fire" - Kings of Leon
12. "Two Weeks (Live)" - Grizzly Bear
13. "Charlotte Sometimes" - The Cure
14. "Look in on Me" - James Jackson Toth
15. "Dots and Dashes" - Doomtree (thanks to Music for Robots)
16. "Saint of Containment" - The Bloodsugars
17. "Love Comes in Spurts" - Richard Hell
18. "I Can't Touch You Anymore" - Magnetic Fields
19. "Gorgeous Behavior" -  Marching Band
20. "So Well" - Benji Hughes
21. "Blue Boy" - Orange Juice
22. "It's You" - Toots and the Maytals
23. "Multiply" - Mobius Band
24. "Reservoir Park" - The Dutchess & The Duke