My greatest project

The greatest project I ever embarked upon (and by far the most successful) was when I determined that I would make a number of epic mix tapes. This involved determining the top three songs of each album I had, writing them down with the time of the song and their ranking on the album, and then figuring out where they would go on the mix tape. You know, some songs are great openers, some songs are great closers, and you have to make sure that there's a decent mix between fast and slow songs. So, with my paper documentation, I went about constructing the track list for each side of the mix tape. Easy, you might say! No! It's not! Because what happens when you get to side two of tape eight and alas! you are stuck with a bunch of mid-tempo 4 minute songs that don't work well together? You have to blow the whole thing up! Because no one, and I mean no one, want to mow the lawn to 45 minutes of mid-tempo 4 minute songs with an incoherent track sequence. Also, I had to stick with the mix-tape rule of not overloading a side with too much of one band. So, U2 and REM, by virtue of taking up a large part of my collection, had to be on every side of every mix tape, and I had to make sure they didn't appear in the same order. Despite the high degree of difficulty I pulled it off and I kick myself every day that I wasn't far enough along in Scouts so that I could have used it as my Eagle Project.