Towne With An E

today was a day in which days were dayed. i have no idea what that means, but that's pretty much the summation of everything today. i slept in way too late, went out to deposit christin's check and eat lunch, came back and took a nap for way too long, then woke up to raid. that was kind of a bust. the first few attempts went really well, then our raid leader [if you can call him a leader since he doesn't actually lead anything] kept having computer problems and making really basic mistakes.

it was no funs.

anyway, tomorrow starts august, in which i will be attempting to upload videos that aren't terrible on my second channel. that should be fun. we'll see if i actually manage to do it or not, but i think i may be able to pull it off. a lot of people i know are vlogging daily this month, but yeah. i've been doing it for the last two months, just not really taking it seriously or uploading anything that's really quality. tomorrow will be another day! wow. did i just say that?

edit: today will be another day. fail upload.

Will You Help Me?

i'm back in maryland! today's video is out, and it's wonderful. i hope you agree. i drove really far and have been going non-stop since 10 this morning, so i'm a bit worn out. we filmed some crazy ridiculousness in the car on the way home, and we listened to lots of random music. the animals are glad to see us, monster has been super excited since we walked in the door. even right now, she's sitting on christin, licking her ears while she's playing with her phone. so silly. anyway, that's all for tonight because i'm way too tired to type any more. goodnight!

Heatwave

i got a ticket for registration today because california is an idiot of a state and hates my guts. how's that for an opening sentence? nice to see you, too. ;-P anyway, yeah. $116 because the state of california is too idiotic to actually do what they say they're going to do and send me my registration tags. they take my money and never deliver, i call them and they ignore me, i send them forms once, twice, three times a lady... and what do i get? a fine by some idiotic, overweight ohio sheriff that felt like making his crappy state a few bucks to inconvenience a poor kid.

thanks a lot, officer.

it's not like i'm not trying to get my car registered. i just can't afford it. that's the cruel 'insult to injury' part of the whole situation, that i'd end up getting fined because i couldn't afford to pay for something. what kind of country is that? i should make a rant-y vlog about it. really. but my wrath has subsided long enough to not be passionate enough to do something about it. i may make one to upload next week anyway, just because i feel like it would be humorous and/or conversational. i did a video today, and i'm doing one tomorrow. three in a row! wow. also, i go home tomorrow. yay! hooray for home! and non-sucky internet!

Got A Feeling

yeah, i did it. i copped out. i blogged lyrics. so sue me! the worst thing is that i had no excuse. i spent all night doing stuff when i could've been typing a coherent blog post, but i chose not to. that's my choice, maaaaan! anyway, yesterday i relaxed a lot and caught up on sleep, before going to get christin and going to see 'salt' which was quite good. the ending was what i expected it to be but i guessed it would be something different in hopes that they wouldn't do what i expected. i failed!

at least there's always christopher nolan.

today i didn't do much. watched some bad t.v. with my wife while the internet was down. wife swap is a truly ridiculous television program. yeah. tomorrow i'm filming a sketch with christin, which will be wonderful. ohio humor will ensue! yesssss. it's late. i'm tired. why am i doing this to myself? i start a new class tomorrow, too. crap. good thing i brought my book. i wonder if i got a good grade on my final. it's probably not graded yet. bedtime! yes, that's right. yes.

It's So Good

the shankhill butchers ride tonight

you better shut your windows tight

they're sharpening their cleavers and their knives

and taking all their whisky by the pint

'cause everybody knows

if you don't

mind your mother's words

a wicked wind

will blow

your ribbons from your curls

everybody moan, everybody shake

the shankhill butchers wanna catch you

awake

This Way & That

finally! i am done with this wretched class! i did my entire paper sans about 1 page worth of other material that i had completed for previous assignments on topic in about a cumulative time of 6 hours. insane. as weird as it sounds, that's probably the most time i've spent on one paper in a long time, but i guess it was seven pages of text, so there you go. anyway, i'm just glad it's over. i'm so tired of reading about and discussing racism. blah.

so that was my day, pretty much, in a nutshell. now i've got a few days off before i actually have to complete anything for my next class, so that will be good. tomorrow night is hell's kitchen! that's so exciting. i got caught up with this season because i miss my mom and she and i always used to watch that show together when i lived at my parents' house last year. as much as i disliked living as a married man in a house with my family, i sure do miss them all. mom, dad, steven and julie. blah.

it looks like we are going to the wizarding world of harry potter for my birthday. hooray! if you know me in person [or internet stalk me and want to send me money] you can donate to the fund of us going if you'd like, in lieu of an actual birthday present. i think my family is chipping in toward that and all. it's gonna be great! we make our reservations tomorrow. we're going to do a three-day pass, i believe, because the park admission makes it all surprisingly affordable. anyway, i'm super tired now, so it's bedtime.

Always Summertime Here

oh sleep, glorious sleep. how i love thee and hate thee all at once. i slept in a long time today, so long that we missed church. oops! i had to catch up on all the lost time, which i feel like i did now. after waking, christin and i hung out a bit while i did some work on the computer. christin half watched 'the hangover' and 'hitch' while i typed away, and we eventually went out to see inception, which may be the best movie i've ever seen. still figuring that part out.

after the movie, we came home and hung out a bit more and i tried to play some wow after christin went to bed [work tomorrow], but i was having unusually high ping. the internet connection in this suite is not the best, and it's getting to be really sketchy. i wouldn't be surprised if some idiot was torrenting a bunch of porn in another room or something, sucking up the upload bandwidth and leaving us poor saps in the dust. blah. tomorrow i've got to write a research paper. do not want!

We Know!

as much as i'd love to come on here and put the same thing i said yesterday [that i drove 8 hours today and i'm tired and don't feel like posting], i know i can't get away with it this time. i know, it's true again, but i need to type something for all of my rabid blog readers, right? right. well, then again, i don't exactly know how many people read this thing. i should find out how to figure that out. i know for sure that at least 5 people read it [hi becky, christin, daks, julie and matt] and that's enough for me. if only i could be so content for my youtube channel!

lots of people sent out my video's link from yesterday, which is great. i love it when a plan comes together! today we went to detroit, and it was not so cold in the d. it was hot and humid. anyway, i had my first white castle experience, and on the way home we saw a combination white castle and church's chicken! and it was open 24-hours! too much awesome in one building. does not compute. i love church's chicken, it's my favorite fried chicken joint in the wooooorld.

we saw liz, hung out for a while and got dinner at a pizzeria called 'buddy's' which was pretty good. it was like 'square pizza' so it was kind of halfway between a french bread pizza and deep dish. i got chicken parmesan because i wasn't feeling the pizza thing and didn't feel like picking off toppings or making people get less toppings. my food was delicious, but still not better than fat angelo's in hong kong or joe's crab shack in dallas, and i could only eat half of it. mmm. lunch for tomorrow! speaking of tomorrow, i think we're going to the local o.p.c. and seeing inception. epic. excited! goodnight to all, and to all a... goodnight.

Now You're Thinking With Portals

wow. i drove 8 hours today on zero sleep. i couldn't sleep this morning, so i just left. it wasn't too bad until about the last 2 hours where i was just barely staying awake on the road. i'm good though. it's bedtime, i can't be bothered to type any more tonight. check out my video here and enjoy. ;-D detroit tomorrow. goodnight.

Go Bye Bye

today was hectic! i filmed my sketch for tomorrow, and i must say that i am incredibly happy with it. check in tomorrow to see it, yo. tomorrow's buelification video will be some outtakes that i didn't think fit at the end of the actual video, but i thought were funny. i'm probably going to be doing this with all of my sketches in the future. what a concept, treating my alternate channel like an actual alternate channel! lolzers.

anyway, i worked today as well, got the rest of my listings for the week done so i get some money on tuesday. good times. got everything situated for the drive tomorrow and cleaned my house. that was fun... just kidding. it wasn't actually fun. i got lucky and didn't have to do my schoolwork 'cause of some technical difficulties with the site. for some reason the 'scheduled maintenance' that started last night is still going on. weird. anyway, it's time to sleep!

Here Comes My Baby

yesterday's blog post was legit depressing, so i'm going to cheer things up a bit. actually, i'm just not going to post much today. this afternoon, i actually got a bit of work done for once in my week, and that was just fantastic. tonight i ate dinner with my christin's parents, which was a bit strange to be there without her, but it was a great dinner and a good night. we watched 'my boy jack' on pbs, and dan radcliffe looks weird with a mustache. just sayin' man, just sayin'.

anyway, tomorrow i'm filming a sketch for my friday video, and it's going to be great. i don't think i'll be sleeping much. i've got a lot to do tomorrow. i've got to do my last few listings, 4 to be precise, do all my laundry [which isn't much], take a shower, film a sketch, clean my entire house, contact elyce about watching the animals and get her the keys, do some stuff for school and get to sleep at a decent hour so i can leave for ohio no later than 8am on friday. will it happen? i hope so.

Disappointment

it seems like no matter how hard my wife works, she always ends up in jobs where she's treated poorly, underpaid or both. it feels right now like we will never get back to hong kong. there have just been so many disappointments, discouragements and even disasters keeping the two of us down that it's hard for me to be hopeful. i love it here, but i miss my friends and i miss working a real job and not feeling like i'm wasting my talent.

i haven't picked up drumsticks aside from just jamming on an electric drum kit in a store for almost a year. i haven't had a cantonese lesson yet, and my tutor hasn't gotten back to me. i make videos that get very few views and little help from friends to promote them. i just feel like i'm not doing anything worthwhile right now, and it makes me want to retreat from creativity, hide and not do what i love doing. i know, that's silly. of course it is. i shouldn't feel this way. but i do. i just do.

Please Just Love Me

oh internets, how you amuse me so. today was a whole lot of relaxation. i slept in, i played with my animals, i laughed with matt on the phone/skype for about 3 hours talking about keven, and soon we will have a youtube channel. oh yes, we will. if you know about keven at all and want to just go on and subscribe to us now knowing it's gonna be awesome, you should probably subscribe here. yeah! not much else to say about things at this point, so i'm just going to go.

real quick, pray for christin and keep posting nice things on her facebook wall. she has tomorrow off, so hopefully she will be in less pain when she goes back to work the next day. i, on the other hand, have lots of work to do tomorrow. yikes! i'm ready. 14 listings in one day? yeah baby. let's do it. why not? talk to you all later. stay classy, internet.

Quafflepuff

i don't often think much of communion, but this morning it sort of hit me. for the first time in a long while, when taking the elements with my brothers and sisters, i actually felt as though i had just received grace from the Lord in the bread and juice. strange. this morning, we went through the last three verses of philippians, finishing up the series on the book that had been going on for the better part of a year, and it was fantastic. i'd never thought much on salutations and final greetings in the epistles, but i'm glad i was there to study this one.

just shortly after church, i tweeted: 'can't believe i didn't ever really think about philippians 4:22 and what it must've meant that the gospel spread to caesar's household.' very interesting. missed my wife though, it's not the same going to church without my helpmate. she's doing okay out there in ohio, but she's in a lot of physical pain and the babies/parents are being particularly stressful, so it's not the best situation.

after church, i went by the mall to take a photo for work and picked up some lunch. said hello to my lushies at the shop before i left, of course. it was delicious, and served as dinner as well as my lunch! hung out with christin online and talked on the phone with her before running through icc to get some frost. i got hooked up. 4 pieces of gear, 3 for my main spec [healing] and we made it through the plagueworks on a fresh run. nice. after that, i watched a few episodes of hell's kitchen [love that show] and now it's bedtime. tomorrow's a new day!

Just Breathe

hey, yesterday was my 150th consecutive daily blog. i'm giving myself a hand! so today was cool. i got up sort of late, but i got some work done after hanging out in a virtual world with my wife for a while. that was fun. ;-D chatted with pappy on skype for a bit, too. i went to a friend's house and had a chat, which was nice as well, before going to get taco bell. mmm. taco bell. for some reason this taco bell meal was exceptionally tasty.

then i came back home, posted a few listings, chatted a bit more and went back to day 2 of wiping excessively on the lich king. today was better than the last. i'll spare the specific details, but for the nerds reading this, we've got phase 1 and the transition [phase 1.5] down, working on phase 2 now. which is kind of nuts. we are having what you may call 'tank issues' a lot of the time, as well as 'raid awareness issues'. yep. we'll get it eventually. progress is good!

so frezned posted some new videos recently. guess that means i actually have to subscribe to him instead of just periodically checking his channel for updates. ;-P his videos are usually great, so i don't mind giving him my sub or anything, but i just recently cut out a lot of subscriptions that never update and people i don't really watch, so adding another of that category may not be the best way to go about it. someday i'll have more subscribers than subscriptions, but that day feels oh so far away. one can dream!

Enjoy Your Pumas

the vlog mentioned in the previous blog entry can be found here. really hope it gets more views and a better reaction than the last few videos [discounting the iphone video which i expected to get a lot of views and very little reaction]. i'm really proud of it, i think it's my best vlog yet. today i really did intend to do a lot of things, and i got very little of them done. one thing i did get done was to go and have a great time on tinychat with helen from pentavlog, way, matt, my wife and courtney [and her boyfriend, john the failure who messed up her video feed].

also i fought the lich king, which was fun.

tomorrow i'll be doing a video. why? because i've seen a video containing a comment that was just caught off-hand made by someone i'd consider my friend if i had more interaction with him... and it blew my mind. i can't think of the internet the same way anymore. things are bothering me now that hadn't ever bothered me before this one seemingly flippant and inconsequential statement has impacted my thought processes. it's so simple, yet so profound. love it. are you enticed yet? good. i hope you watch it tomorrow, then.

And Then, My Friend

you die! ha! no, but seriously. not going to type much today, because a lot of my day was summed up in the vlog i did for tomorrow's video. it wasn't going to be tomorrow's video, it was just going to be a today video not part of the regular schedule and i do a sketch tomorrow sort of thing. but then i got editing, added some special effects and sounds and stuff, and yeah. it took too long. so i'm going to finish it in the morning and release it tomorrow. yep.

watch my lovely dog, she's super cute.

the short story is that i went to six flags. i decided to cut off work, i don't know why, it just felt right and it was. i left the house around 2 and said 'it's too nice of a day to be working' so i went out with the intention of filming a video and riding superman. i succeeded on both counts! superman was so rad. easily one of my favorite roller coasters. then i drove to the davidsonville ruritan and recorded another video that may or may not be released. then i came home and raided after eating dinner! 2 bosses down, putricide pwned us. lich king tomorrow. excited!

Circuitboard

today was work work work! so here's the big reveal: i work for aol. lolerz! actually i work for a website called patch, and i'm what's called a 'community listings collector' which isn't like a bone collector or a pokémon collector or an obsessive world of warcraft pet collector [i'm looking at you, matt] but it's quite collective. i go around to businesses and bother them and ask them questions for a free online listing. if they don't answer me, i make stuff up.

just kidding, i don't make it up.

actually i get most of the information online already and just fill in the blanks when i get to the place i'm assigned to. some of the mom and pop stores are really stoked on the free advertisement but most of them are sketchy, thinking we're going to charge them something. we're not. aol doesn't need your $25/month, they make money from big advertisers. but people don't understand this and think that everyone's out to get them and their money. which these days is probably not too far from the truth, but you know, it's hard times.

so yeah, i did that pretty much all day, and i was back at the mall today. after that, i saw a movie called the sorcerer's apprentice with nick cage and that dude that did the voice for how to train your dragon. just like a-team, i can't believe it was good. a nick cage movie was better than the last airbender. go figure. anyway, it was highly entertaining, funny, well-acted [cheesily, but on purpose] and i liked it. after the movie i came on wow and hung out with peoples and had a good time. tomorrow? yep, you guessed it. more work? job's done.

edit: i. need. to. stop. not. hitting. publish. post. before. i. go. sleepy.

What Does This Mean?

wake up, check the internet, walk the dog, feed the animals, scold the cat because she broke into her food bin again, do some research, prep some articles, charge my phone, watch youtube, do a random heroic, eat waffles for lunch, go to work, finish two listings, look at phone, see blank screen, reboot phone, watch phone stuck at apple screen, go to apple store, plug in phone, see phone still stuck at apple screen, repeat for about 20 minutes, get frustrated, go to car, plug in phone, start driving home, get to central ave., glance at phone, see it's reset.

but now it's 5:00pm and i'm not driving back.

go to safeway, get food for lunches, drive home, eat hot dogs for dinner, get undressed, turn on shower water, realize shower water is cold, check water heater, reset water heater, realize you're not getting a shower for at least an hour, make dessert, make video about dessert, eat dessert, log on, get in ventrilo, talk for a while, do wintergrasp, do voa25, talk to wife on the phone, raid icecrown citadel 25-man, get 2 pieces of loot, have fun, log off, watch youtube, download first 10 episodes of hell's kitchen season 7, lose track of time, write this blog, go to sleep.

Less Melodrama Plz

oh boy, oh boy. today was a long day of working and working and more working. i took a break to play some video games and talk to the wife on the phone and such, but yeah. i also wrote a paper, which was crazy, but it's good that it's all over with. this class is heinous. i've got another monster paper to write in two weeks, and i'm not looking forward to that. it seems that i may or may not be going to north carolina this weekend, we'll see soon though.

yesterday's post was meant to be longer and meant to be posted... well, yesterday. but i kind of forgot about it and left the window open. i do that a lot. [side note: i did it today too. i'm stupid.] anyway, tomorrow is more work and i get paid which is good news. i'm trying to plan it so i can get things done that need to be done like getting the cars registered in the state. but now i'm thinking i may not be able to do christin's while she is gone, because she is the title holder and i can't sign all those documents for her. d'oh. but we'll get it done.

Yeah

christin left today.

You Are Now Watching

i could take my shirt off... hey guys, it's me. me. me! who else would it be? be? be! you see what i did there? i just realized that a lot of the stupid cheesy stuff i write on my blog would be much more effective in vlog form. i should vlog again, i liked it. now all i do is sketches. but i felt like my vlogs were less interesting than my sketches so that's what i ended up doing. maybe it was the wrong move, but i dunno. i do what i want. i'm 18. i run with gangs, i throw signs.

so yeah, today was fun.

watched a bit of vidcon today, and dan brown revealed his secret project that everyone guessed a few days ago already because his clues were way too obvious. but it's okay, i don't fault him for it. it's a good idea, and it didn't underwhelm like i thought it would. i'm interested to see it, pretty glad that he's doing something less cultish than what he was doing for the last season of dbu. anyway, that's enough esoteric youtube community nonsense. i really should be saying this on a vlog.

tomorrow christin leaves for ohio for like 3 weeks, which sucks. i'm gonna miss her a lot, i'm starting to take her presence for granted and it's going to be lame with her gone. but i'll survive. on trail mix and video games! and lots of work. i'm gonna work extra hard while she's gone and make a lot of money, hopefully, so we can live comfortably and pay off the last looming debt we still have. anyway, yeah. it's time to sleep pretty soon here, so i'll post again tomorrow. as usual! goodnight.

Feather Foe

today i made this and watched some vidcon and didn't watch some vidcon and nerd raged at b.g.e. for having two power outages in one day and no thunderstorms. rawr! then i ate chinese food with my lovely wife and played world of warcraft and raided and got some sweet gears and experience healing 10-man i.c.c. which was fun! and now i'm tired and i don't feel like typing any more here, so that will be that for today. good morning! and in case i don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.

Next Day Delivery

speaking of delivery, i got my new headset in the mail today. oh, what? you didn't know my other one was broken? oh yeah, i didn't tell my blog about that. yeah, my old headset [read: headphones with microphone attachment] broke the other day and i ragequit life. i mean it was sad times, because i really liked that headset. i stole it from my brother. i don't even think he knew i stole it from him, but i totally did. when i say steal, i mean borrowed and never returned.

he can have it back now if he wants.

anyway, i got my new sennheizer headset and it sounds great, the mic works probably better than the old one even. good times. today i did a whole lot of work and made good money, then came home and played some video games. i hit 80 yesterday on my second shaman and after 2 days of gearing up i've already got a 4250 or so gear score. pretty ridiculous if you ask me, but hey. i was lucky and running with people who didn't need gear. my enhancement set is coming along nicely as well.

bud, no one cares about world of warcraft. stop talking about it. okay self, i will. tomorrow i plan to eat copious amounts of trail mix and film a new video. then i plan to watch vidcon pretty much all day, and somewhere in there i need to work for a bit and get these last four listings finished with. hopefully everything gets approved so i prove my worth and get more listings so i can make mo' money, mo' money, mo' money. it just occurred to me that i haven't even told my parents that i got a job. d'oh!

But Sometimes...

you gotta let it go! yeah! today i slept for a long time and played a lot of video games. it was way too hot to work and definitely too hot to go to the gym. christin worked a half day, and we went to the store and spent like $90 on groceries. hence the delicious trail mix i've been snacking on all night. i said 'hence' there as though you could see it on my table and i were gesturing toward it while i spoke gently and soothingly. of course, i wasn't speaking either, i was typing.

wait, i did this joke already tonight, over here.

anyway, tomorrow i think i'm going to have to force myself to get out there and work some more. that may be troublesome. my car's a/c needs to be charged, it's not working properly. blah. but i will survive! hey hey! did i mention lately that my wife is awesome? she is. she loves me. i love her too, but you know that. because she's awesome, and i love awesome things. like rambling! that's enough rambling for tonight. goodnight.

Jolt Cola

work work. zug zug. dabu! work complete! done building ship. build more burrows! enough of that nonsense, this is blogging time. hey kids, it's me. but then again, who else would it be? i'm gonna make another rhyme, because it seems like something fine. no... stop, bud. what are you doing? this is madness. madness? no. this... is... unnecessary mockery of pop culture phraseology! okay, for real though, that's the end of that.

today i got 8 listings done. well, 'done' is a bit of a misnomer, as i was unable to properly complete 3 of them, since the people were all like 'leave your information and we'll call you back!' and i was all like 'okay!' but i'm totally not going to wait for them to call me back. because they won't call me back at all. they think i'm a salesman, and they want nothing to do with me. they were just being polite. and let's be honest: i'm not going back to any of those places.

and this is funny because you don't know my job.

yes, i'm being intentionally exclusivist and vague in this post because i think it's funny. all in good time, my friends. all in good time. i'll tell you what i do fairly soon. christin and i went to see the movie 'grown ups' today and it was pretty funny. the movie didn't really have much of a plot, but it had a lot of funny moments and some good clean fun. minus the sex jokes, of course, but you know it's hollywood. hey hey! you're so hollywood. wow. can you tell it's bedtime?

Doc Brown Says

today was productive. got some research done for my heinous final paper, which doubled as this week's assignment, and did my responses for school as well. did a bit of pre-work for my job and i will do the big push tomorrow and try to get a bunch of listings done in one fell swoop! i found out that my unemployment was automatically extended, but i've got to show proof that i'm looking for a job. fortunately, i have proof because i started putting in more applications after my old benefits had expired. so i get some extra free money!

like i said, tomorrow is gonna be full of working. i found out today that christin is leaving probably on saturday, which makes me sad because that's another two days longer that she'll be gone. i'm not a stoic, you know, it makes me sad when my wife leaves. she acts like i love it or something, but i really don't. i get a lot of free time to myself as it is now, with her working normal hours and me having a flexible job/school and being an insomniac. but i don't like the idea of her being gone the whole rest of the month. /sadface! p.s. i'm almost 80! woo!

Matter Flatter

what a boring holiday this was! i went to church this morning by myself, christin wasn't feeling good so she stayed home, and learned about pleasing sacrifice as it relates to giving. our church offered to help us get our cars registered so we can become citizens of the state and get medical assistance because we can't afford jack. that was pretty awesome. then we went to the in-laws' for hot dogs and food coma conversation.

i remember the fourth of july being exciting and filled with fireworks and adventure, but we just sat in our house ignoring the festivities. actually, i found a lot of the fireworks [which are legal for purchase here] quite annoying. some of them shook the house and scared the hell out of my poor animals. i did my quiz for class and got 100%, which was nice. tomorrow i'm going to get some work done and relax a bit. hope i sleep well tonight.

note: man, i need to stop writing these and leaving the window open without hitting post. ;-P that's so annoying!

A Bullet In The Brain Pan, Squish!

as you may have already guessed, we just got finished watching serenity. it was a fitting ending to a show that should've ran for years, and i'm sad to see it go. i've got to look into the comic now, it was all just phenomenal. space-based sci-fi with no aliens? amazing. speaking of watching, on the polar opposite spectrum of enjoyment, we also went to see the last airbender [albeit against my better judgment] which was every bit as bad as the critics said it was, but no more. it could've been good. but now i want to watch the cartoon,

today was a lazy day, filled with napping. i took a great video of christin sleeping this morning, and i will probably put it up on her channel eventually. took it on my phone. she was saying all sorts of weird stuff and speaking spanish in her sleep. yep. i took a long nap, probably too long, before the movie, but at least i'm tired at my normal hour [note: my normal hour, as this hour is by no means a standardized 'normal'] so that's good. church tomorrow. i love church. looks like i'm going to fail on the 'get to 80 before the end of the weekend' front. oh well.

Business Ethics

so i was thinking this job would just be a sort of 'go in, get out, get money' sort of situation where i wouldn't expect to find any sort of fulfillment or joy in the work. i was kind of wrong. today i only completed three and a half listings [one manager wasn't around] in about 2 hours' worth of actual work time, but i had a great time doing it and met some awesome people. i saw things happening in my community that i wouldn't have dreamed were happening, in some unlikely places.

i also ate panda express for lunch, which was nummy.

earlier today i had sworn off youtube and decided not to make videos again, because i hate feeling constrained and stressed about deadlines and stuff. but then my phone providentially died and forced me to come home earlier than i had planned from work [i do my whole job on my phone and i didn't budget my battery wisely or bring a car charger] and i got the video done anyway. i think it's pretty good. no comments yet, which is weird.

anyway, i had a good time at work and i'm having a terrible time in school. it's opposite week! but i'm okay with that, really. tomorrow i think i'll go do a few more hours of work to get a decent amount of pay for next week so i can ensure that we finally get the two cars registered in the state and become citizens of the area. that way we can get some health coverage and perhaps some dental insurance to alleviate my tooth pain. it hurts. may go to the movies tomorrow. what should we see?

Contrast

today i read. a lot. this book is quite repetitive, but highly informative, and this class is going to be a major chore. me no like. the final paper will be a total pain in the ass, but i think i'll live. maintaining my 4.0 may not be as easy as i thought. unfortunately for my education, this whole class is almost entirely irrelevant to what i'm studying. i understand why it would be useful for someone planning to teach in the u.s., but not for someone like me who wants to teach overseas.

in the afternoon/evening i did another super secret thing like the one i did last thursday. shh! don't tell anyone. christin has been having horrible days at work and that's no good, it makes me sad. the babies are being psychotic and their parents are not helping the situation. these kids are going to be spoiled brats, i tell you. meh. tomorrow night will be another lovely babysitting excursion, which basically means that me and christin get to chill out while the babies sleep.

so tomorrow morning, i'll be filming my video early [it's in the same vein as 'icetastic' for all of you eugene lovers out there] and heading off to my new job. i've got 21 listings to take care of and i'm going to see how many i can knock out in a few hours before deciding how much time to devote to work tomorrow. we'll see how it goes. i want to try and get at least this batch done by monday so i can get paid next week. that'd be nice! i forgot to ask if christin got paid today. i should probably do that in the morning. and that i shall. for now, goodnight!