Random acts of inspiration...
Oh, my... how long has it been since I've posted?
Well, either way, here I am. Life has been a bit frustrating but not, at the same time, altogether unpleasant. I find myself, with everything that's been going on, very often missing my friends from back in UCSC and other parts of the bay area and often wondering what they're doing. That is, to say, that I miss them.
I've had random inspirations a lot, lately, with all that's been happening. Songs have flown in and out of my head, as has poetry, as have stories. I noodle around on my shakuhachi a lot, at least, but my chances to really drum (and I mean -really- drum) or just sit down and scribble out a poem or story have been remote as of late.
I've been on some heavy medication as of late. Some has been good. Some... not so much. On the good side of things, I'm on this wonderful little headache medication called "Ultram." It's a 24-hour time release thing and it's wonderfully effective, getting rid of all but my worst headaches.
On the down side, I'm on my third consecutive round of antibiotics (which I've been on for the last month now). They're kicking me to the curb rather soundly. I take them at 9-11PM, before work, and by the time I get halfway through my shift at work my voice is utterly gone and the whites of my eyes are completely red. It looks and sounds kinda creepy.
I got an iPhone as a half Christmas gift (I paid for half) from my family. It's a pretty darn amazing piece of technology, I have to say, and when it comes to the tedium of work it's a total lifesaver. I basically spend all of my idle time on shift watching random stuff (Anime that I need to catch up on, TV shows like BSG, Bones, and other stuff that I want to catch up on), my paperwork times listening to music (which helps me, as a very rhythm concentrated person, to actually speed up and make my work much more efficient, turning a six-hour job into a three-hour one), and the rest of the time with my nose halfway in a book.
Now, this may beg the question of "how do you work?" To me, it feels for some reason as if I have a much easier time doing one task if I'm actually doing two simultaneously. I'm not quite sure why that is but it actually got me through most of my big papers in college (many of which were done in the space of a particularly fun broadcast set for Shoutcast or something similar).
I can only really offer my apologies for not posting here more often. Life has been really too stressful in some areas for me to want to put it into words. I'd much rather internalize it, for the most part, because that's what I do. Perhaps if things get better and/or people remind me that I have this thing here I'll actually post more often. :]
Until next time...
Well, either way, here I am. Life has been a bit frustrating but not, at the same time, altogether unpleasant. I find myself, with everything that's been going on, very often missing my friends from back in UCSC and other parts of the bay area and often wondering what they're doing. That is, to say, that I miss them.
I've had random inspirations a lot, lately, with all that's been happening. Songs have flown in and out of my head, as has poetry, as have stories. I noodle around on my shakuhachi a lot, at least, but my chances to really drum (and I mean -really- drum) or just sit down and scribble out a poem or story have been remote as of late.
I've been on some heavy medication as of late. Some has been good. Some... not so much. On the good side of things, I'm on this wonderful little headache medication called "Ultram." It's a 24-hour time release thing and it's wonderfully effective, getting rid of all but my worst headaches.
On the down side, I'm on my third consecutive round of antibiotics (which I've been on for the last month now). They're kicking me to the curb rather soundly. I take them at 9-11PM, before work, and by the time I get halfway through my shift at work my voice is utterly gone and the whites of my eyes are completely red. It looks and sounds kinda creepy.
I got an iPhone as a half Christmas gift (I paid for half) from my family. It's a pretty darn amazing piece of technology, I have to say, and when it comes to the tedium of work it's a total lifesaver. I basically spend all of my idle time on shift watching random stuff (Anime that I need to catch up on, TV shows like BSG, Bones, and other stuff that I want to catch up on), my paperwork times listening to music (which helps me, as a very rhythm concentrated person, to actually speed up and make my work much more efficient, turning a six-hour job into a three-hour one), and the rest of the time with my nose halfway in a book.
Now, this may beg the question of "how do you work?" To me, it feels for some reason as if I have a much easier time doing one task if I'm actually doing two simultaneously. I'm not quite sure why that is but it actually got me through most of my big papers in college (many of which were done in the space of a particularly fun broadcast set for Shoutcast or something similar).
I can only really offer my apologies for not posting here more often. Life has been really too stressful in some areas for me to want to put it into words. I'd much rather internalize it, for the most part, because that's what I do. Perhaps if things get better and/or people remind me that I have this thing here I'll actually post more often. :]
Until next time...