Xena, Warrior Princess

another class down. the final was kind of brutal actually, as finals go, but that's because i didn't note the length before i started writing. while 8 pages isn't excessively long for a research paper, it is for the topic i had to research. the history of bilingual education in america isn't particularly interesting to learn about, and it's basically just the same thing in cycles for 400+ years. blah. anyway, i got it all done, which was the main thing i needed to accomplish today. tomorrow is another story — i've got a lot of other things i need to do.

first in that list is make a new video, though that part won't be terribly difficult. it's really editing that takes up most of the time at this point, the filming rarely takes more than 20 minutes or so once i've got the lights set up. i'm not 100% sure of everything i'm going to say in tomorrow's video, as the topic is a bit simple and lacking in examples, but i guess that's good. i haven't had a short video in a long time, so it'll be a break. maybe then the editing won't take a whole lot of time. that should give me time to do the other things i need to do, which are getting the car 'smogged' and going to work from 5pm-closing.

is it sad that the former is less daunting?

nothing really creative came up today, though i did think of a song i really want to cover in the near future. i also realized that i really want to involve christin more in the writing process of the songs i'm doing, especially since she is one half of 'the perfect place.' granted, she's got a lot less time on her hands and is less musically inclined, but i've been having trouble finding melodies for my songs that i haven't completely overused. she's good at that sort of thing. i also need harmony for a lot of the stuff i have written, so that'd be good too. hey christin, let's do that, eh? yeah!

Yak Snot Burrito

so i started typing in here about two hours ago, and what i wrote actually ended up becoming lyrics to a song. funny! it was about how i have a bunch of half-written songs and not many full ones. it's kind of annoying, but it's just sort of how i've been working these days. the problem with me is i'm very prone to not finish things i start, especially songs. i went back into a few of the fruity loops files for the older ones, and i'm now realizing that i'll have to do them all over almost from scratch. i've gotten a lot better at using fl studio since i wrote them.

i'd like to apologize for yesterday's post, as it was quite small. i'm sorry about that. i didn't have a lot to say, and it was a pretty boring day in general. today wasn't much better. i slept through my alarm and was still sore in the morning, so i stayed home from church and slept in way too long. i got comfortable late in the sleep-cycle, and it was just so nice to not be sore in the position i had made my body get into. lol. awkward sentence. anyway, after i got up, i took a shower and headed out to sears while christin made a pie. i got my schedule, and it's acceptable. i don't work tomorrow, which is good news. i have my final paper due.

writing music has recently become more of a thing i do. i want to get back into the business of creating things. i like playing wow and watching shows with my wife, but i miss the creative aspect of making music. so recently, i've been spending more time writing songs and getting a bit frustrated with my inability to play certain chords, as well as my tendency to overuse and reuse the same progressions and such. i'm kind of a sucker that way. it doesn't stop other people, but i just have higher standards for my own work, i guess. anyway, that's that. the pie christin made [dutch apple] was delicious. and now it's bedtime.

Zima + Hula Hoops

still sore. woke up late from the buffyfest, which was excellent of course, and took the opportunity of a lazy day at home [christin is sick, i'm still in pain] to catch up on our other shows. watched all of the big bang theory and community episodes from this year. señor chang is a genius. christin took a nap, which turned into bedtime, and i played a bit of wow. got in a heroic blackrock caverns and man. i just can't understand how people can't follow simple instructions. people who have done it before just can't manage to figure it out. ugh.

note: bad me.

Antiseptic Tank

today i woke up at 9:30am and attempted to get out of bed, but i couldn't even sit up. i laid there not in pain, but in absolute soreness from the neck down. so i went back to sleep and eventually made it out of bed for a few minutes at around eleven, then back down again. lesson learned: don't slip and fall backwards onto a large slab of ice. it hurts a bit for the time being [actually, it didn't really hurt at all], but the next day is a real pain. aiya. so i called out of work because i can barely stand up, and christin went to a girls' night sort of thing, while i finished up today's video.

speaking of finishing up, it's now 4:45 in the morning and we just finished the last episode of buffy the vampire slayer. well, really, we just finished the last 7 episodes in one long burst. it was a good way to end the t.v. part of the series, and i'm really excited that they are still making comics for the so-called '8th season.' pretty exciting. spike went out with a bang, which is what i expected, and let's just say that i can't believe how few major characters died. i won't say who. but man... anyway, nathan fillion is the man, caleb was easily tied with the mayor for my favorite 'big bad.' though, to be honest, evil willow was pretty much the scariest. anyway, bedtime.

Barge It Up

when i was going to my car today, i slipped on the ice in the driveway and fell backward, hitting my head. it sucked. my body is still sore from the fall, actually, and i'm pretty annoyed with it all. i've had a neck-ache for the past few days from sleeping wrongly, and now i've got this to add to it. i'm not complaining in the sense that it has a huge impact on my ability to function as a human being, but it is quite irritating when i move around a lot. i should probably get with the not moving and just go to sleep. i'll do that, i just need to finish my homework first.

now that i've finished my homework, i suppose i could bore you all with some details about the day. i didn't do a whole lot. i did get cheese logs, as i said, but i didn't end up going to christin's work. long story, that is, but i did go to the library and pay my $0.25 fine. i also renewed the book i have, since i haven't even read one page of it in the time i've had it in my possession. too many other ways to utilize my time, i suppose. i have so many books i need to read, but i've been busying myself about the internets a bit too much, i suppose. even tonight, i feel like i should do my daily heroic on wow, but i'm not going to. too tired now.

i guess that means it's bedtime. hope i can sleep.

Crème Brûlée

it's song wednesday, and this is ready for your viewing pleasure. the video is just silly, but the song is something i'm really proud of. who would've thought i'd end up being an educationally based internet singer/songwriter? i grew up playing the drums, and now i'm using fake drums, synth, and acoustic guitar to teach people about english grammar and punctuation. now if only this could pay the bills in some fashion, i think i'd be set. ;-D i should've started doing this years ago. but never you mind, i'll keep it up. may even write some additional tunes and get my fawmon. probably not. i'm a postponer at heart.

tomorrow i'll be going over to work with christin after i get up, which should be fun, provided i can get enough sleep. it's also thursday, which means yummy cheese logs for me. i didn't get one last week, and i'm jonesing! and apparently i never finished this last night. what else can i say about it? umm. i played some wow, and i talked to my friend justin about really bad 'screamo' bands. like, really bad. like, unbelievably bad. lol. yeah, that's pretty much all i can think of to say about that. i'm going to post this now, and endure the inevitable shame of late posts.

Drunken Uncle

today was a day of non-accomplishment, in the sense that there were a lot of things i wanted to do that just didn't get done. i wanted to make some headway into recording my song for tomorrow, but that didn't happen. christin stayed home from work, which threw me off a bit, but the major thing was the noise, noise, noise! i couldn't sleep at all last night, so i got up super late. took care of the wife, made her chicken noodle soup, then did my rounds on the interwebs while i ate soup myself. campbell's chunky soup sucks without adding a ton of salt.

went to work, which was a bit more stressful than usual due to the yearly store review tomorrow. the big wigs from corporate are coming to assign an alphabetical score to our store, which apparently is the equivalent of retail apocalypse 2011 the way people were freaking out. had to clean a bunch extra, and had to have a manager inspect my cash wrap after i dropped the bags off at the cash office. it was fine, of course, i'm quite clean at work. it's a pretty amazing contrast. buffy is getting goooood. they're really building up 'the big bad' in this season. i did get some work done on the song, and i know what it's going to sound like now. worked a bit on the programming for the 'full band' version, which i hope to finish tomorrow.