This is huge.

Possibly the proudest moment of my entire life happened last night. First, let's rewind to last semester. As the MDCRSTNOLT, I get a lot of cool indie music sent to me in hopes that I'll play it on the station. One such CD was by a band called Sunday Runners. I gave it a listen and really dug the CD, but one track in particular entitled "Memories Left at Sea" stuck out. It was a groovy, quirky track with a great upbeat organ part. I pushed for KDCS to add it, and it spent a couple months on our playlist last semester. I think we just dumped it last week to make room for some new stuff. I kept the CD and still listen to it.

Fast forward to last night. I'm in my room, watching my tape of Thursday's "O.C." A scene comes up with Marissa and Summer talking in their room. Then the opening strains of a very familiar organ part begin to waft through the background. The moment I heard the vocals come in, I paused the tape, leapt up out of my seat, raised my hands over my head, and took a celebratory lap around my single. "The O.C." used Sunday Runners' "Memories Left at Sea." Do you have any idea what that means?

I scooped "The O.C."

The TV show with THE hippest, most indie soundtrack today, the show that has raised the bar in terms of cool TV soundtracks, the show that has received as much press for introducing kids to Death Cab and The Thrills as any storyline...and I scooped them. By a good three months.

I have achieved Music Director nirvana.

I may not have changed the radio station all the much in my time there, but I can say that I scooped "The O.C." (Last semester, I scooped "One Tree Hill," but who really cares about them?) And that is all I need. I may retire satisfied.

Thank you very much. Good night.