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Here at The Daily Procrastinator, we know that those hours between 8:00 and 5:00 can be a real bore. Staring at the stack of papers on your desk or avoiding the list of tasks your manager expects you to accomplish can be stressful, exhausting business. For your benefit, procrastinator, we published a series of tantalizing and time-consuming articles this week. In case you missed any of them, here’s a list of the topics we covered:

Office Life: TallGirl commented on the interesting variety of spam email she receives, as well as her continuing love affair with paper in a world which is supposedly becoming a paperless utopia.

Music: Addressing both ends of the musical spectrum, Juggernaut offered his thoughts about Lamb Of God’s new album, Wrath, while BigRedPoet celebrated the White House’s decision to award Stevie Wonder the Gershwin Award. FlashCap added to this week’s celebration of music with his Sonnet To Sirius and XM Radio.

Obscure Vocabulary: If you can’t use the word “amanuensis” in a sentence, take heart! TallGirl couldn’t use it either, until just the other day. That’s uh-MAN-yoo-EN-sis, by the way.

Sports: Although Terrell Owens’ unemployment was short-lived, it was still the highlight of BigRedPoet’s month.

Medicine and/or PseudoScience: Do nutritional supplements and herbal remedies actually help people avoid getting sick? TallGirl is 97% sure they don’t, but she uses them anyway. Why?

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On Febraury 25, President Obama honored musical legend Stevie Wonder with the Gershwin Prize for Lifetime Achievement, America’s highest award for pop music. Wonder is just the second performer to receive this distinction; in 2007, Paul McCartney was the first.

Stevie Wonder: Gershwin Award Winner and Raging Musical Genius

This is just the latest chapter in a career which has been literally full of distinctions. Other highlights of Stevie Wonder’s career include:

• Signed to MoTown Records at the age of 11
• Released 26 studio albums and numerous Greatest Hits, to date
• Won 25 Grammy awards
• Recorded 34 Billboard Top 10 singles
• Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989
• Received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996
• Received Kennedy Center Honors in in 1999

Stevie Wonder’s career has blended jazz, soul, blues, rock, funk, and pop music into songs that literally everyone knows. Songs like “My Cherie Amour,” “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” “You Are The Sunshine of My Life,” “I Just Called To Say I Love You,” and my personal favorite, “Superstition,” have truly become a part of the American consciousness of popular music (you forgot “Isn’t She Lovely” and “A Place in the Sun” — ed.).

Dig out your Stevie Wonder CDs today, or cassette tapes, or vinyl if you’re lucky, and revisit the work of one of our finest musicians and songwriters.