Brainiac

it's way too late to be typing this, given that i need to be at the store in less than five hours. but alas, i am a slave to tradition! gonna be short, though. today i made this after work, which was good. i closed with nikkie, and we didn't do so well in the area of selling things. we did get a lot of stuff done, and the case looks good. the chocolate case, by the way, in case you may have been thinking we were in some weird lawsuit. anyway, today was fairly uneventful, and christin is feeling much better and going to work tomorrow. yay! speaking of tomorrow, we're going to see driftless pony club and mike lombardo with some nintendo-rock band at the sidebar. woo! it's gonna be off the chain, yo. for serious. one paragraph updates! goodnight!

Archimedes

christin is sick. somehow, she got a wicked crazy stomach ache, and now she can't hardly move. it's very sad. on top of that, she just got something else that she hasn't had in a long time, making for a particularly painful day for her. so much for a day of rest! so i stayed home today to help her out, and i ended up going out on two separate occasions and picking things up from the store. we had an okay day, all things considered, and i did catch up on my youtube subscriptions [almost], but it was still no good for her. oh well. she'll feel better in time.

tomorrow should be interesting. i've got to make a video and i have no idea what i'm going to do. it could be anything! i'll probably start thinking about it when i wake up, which will probably be after noon, given the current time. it's really late. heh. anyway, i finally start my class [which works] on tuesday, so that's a good thing too. i have some of the work already done, so it's almost like i don't really start for another week again, but that's alright. working tomorrow from 3-closing, should be quite dull as usual. monday nights are the worst, but i still love my job.

i watched two things relevant to teaching today, both of which were recently linked on my facebook wall, so i don't feel the need to re-link them here. that and i'm too lazy to do so at this ungodly hour of the morning. anyway, it's good for me to watch this stuff and get my creative juices flowing, with regard to education, because i'll be finishing my degree very soon and hope to start working in the realm of education. i'll probably start out with tutoring in my spare time, just to build something for a c.v. for once we get back to hong kong. and with that, i must sleep.

Zora Mask

so today was my first saturday off since i started my new job, and it was quite nice. we got up late and had a good day of relaxation, followed by a trip to dan [christin's brother] and sarah's place for dinner. mmm. bourbon chicken. after that, we headed to the movies and saw a late showing of 'take me home tonight,' which was surprisingly hilarious. i think my sister would like it a lot. it was weird hearing topher grace cuss, though. this may be the first movie i've seen with him in it, and the first thing i've seen him do besides that 70's show.

it's interesting how our perception of peoples' personas on television are so easily shattered when they make the jump to the big screen. we know someone as a character for so long that, essentially, they are that character for all intents and purposes until proven otherwise. for example, nathan fillion is malcolm reynolds, despite the fact that he is castle now. i think some roles are so iconic that they define a person's career, and some can move past it [joseph gordon-levitt] and some can't [mark hamill]. interesting to think about. church tomorrow. sleepy time!

Your Face

if it were a few years ago, i'd have been super excited because today is 3-11 day. now i'm just all like 'whaaaaaat?' and it's not a big deal to me. guess i'm not as much of a superfan as i had thought. so at least one of the o.p.c. missionary families in japan are okay, which is good news, but things are still crazy weird there. work was good tonight, we did okay for a friday night. new video is getting a lot of comments, but still lacking in views overall. i don't know what to do differently at this point, it's getting really frustrating. maybe i'm just doin' it wong.

christin is looking at pictures of hong kong and i'm realizing how often we ate western style food at home. weird. we were new to the place and didn't get as much exposure to asian cuisine as anyone living in southeast asia should, so i blame that. toward the end, when we lived in sai kung, we were a bit more adventurous but still got pizza hut and yoshinoya a bit too much for my own liking. just for the sake of convenience, really. heh. i can't wait to get back there, we really need to plan a trip. gahhh! hong kong!

Xi'an

kind of hard to blog about anything right now with a huge earthquake slash tsunami wreaking havoc on japan. that's just nuts. thinking about and praying for the o.p.c. work there in japan that's doing so well that they are considering turning the missionary service over to the local church. i wonder how they are dealing with the destruction. of course i'll be thinking about them and praying, but i know that God knows what's going on and all of this will be made to promote His glory in the end. tragic, but it holds a purpose, just like everything else.

today was a good day, and i made this video. i worked a closing shift with patrick and had dinner with the lovely wife at the little thai fast food joint in the mall. it's good stuff. it's not real thai food, there aren't even any peanuts in any of the dishes [whaaaaat?] but it's still tasty. i got to leave a bit early tonight because it was mad slow and we cleaned fast. i also got paid tonight, so i dropped off my check on the way home. good times. been reading up on chinese history some more today, but it seems to be very long, involved and repetitive. i'll be getting into the specifics soon enough. that's exciting. goodnight.

Waiter Wheezing

i just ate an entire cheese stick thing from papa john's. yeah, i'm a fatty. today felt like a really long day, but that's probably because i woke up before noon and worked a closing shift at the store. we did well tonight, and rachael and i came up with a pretty amazing drink. it was insane, i can't even describe it. it was like a liquid birthday cake. blenderization! it's a word, look it up. tomorrow i have to do a video, and i can't decide what to do for the last 'versus' because there are so many different options. aaaaahhh! i can't pick just one, but just the same, this series can't go on forever. versus week two? maybe.

tomorrow i close again, as well as on friday night. boo! they say i lost my mind — charlie sheen. that song is stuck in my head. you should listen to it here. craziness. going so long without properly doing schoolwork is kind of weird. i guess this is what it's going to be like when i'm finally done with school altogether, though sometimes that feels like it'll never happen. i mean, i know it will, but i've been doing school in one incarnation or another for pretty much my entire life, with very few exceptions. it's just a thing i do, and once it's over... i dunno. i think i may feel like i accomplished something. i hope so.

Vork's Idiosyncrasies

mad ducats, yo. that's what i be raking in. nah, i'm just messing with you. i do get paid on friday, though, which is nice. today i made this after i got home from work. it was a slow day, as it usually is on weekdays, but i made an epic chocolate bar. well, tibet [my co-worker, not the country] made it for me and i bought it and om nom nommed it. i also made christin a chai tea latte before i left, which she enjoyed. she said she wanted one on twitter, so i brought it home to her. i think that makes me a pretty good husband. and very humble as well, right?!?!?

that was a joke, by the way.

while i was at work, i read the entire wikipedia article on china, which wasn't so much informative [it was a lot of stuff i already knew], but it was still interesting. i'm desiring to brush up on chinese history, so i started there and plan to expand out from there, since wikis are usually a pretty good base to begin with. lots of sources, and what-not. anyway, i close the next three days and christin is working as well, which is good and bad. she doesn't want to be there anymore, and she won't have to be at the end of the month, but it's good that we'll not lose the money from her getting the time off. makes it less sucky.

i still haven't finished last week's song, which is lame. i don't think i'll finish it tomorrow, because i just don't. it's really late now, and i can't imagine forcing myself to get up early enough to record the last bit of the second guitar part and the vocals, and i haven't even begun to program the bass track. granted, i don't think that last part will take very long, but it's just not something i've been putting much thought into. i think i'm going to try and get it up by friday, but at this point i am sort of feeling like i'm spending a lot of time and effort in areas in which i'm not really being rewarded. patience, young skywalker.