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I'm positively wired with caffeine right now, I'm procrastinating a little at work, and I figure I haven't updated in a while.
What am I up to?
Reading: I finished Pinker's The Blank Slate last month (one everyone should read), finished Freakonomics shortly thereafter (the fancy paper makes it look thicker and longer than it actually is -- what's up with the fancy paper?), and now I'm most of the way into this book about one of the Mind and Life meetings between the Dalai Lama and some scientists. I could totally be a monk. If my life ever goes to shit maybe I'll move to India and live in a temple or something. When I finish this I'll be out of books again, but fortunately I got some GIFT CARDS for Xmas.
Xmas!: I got some sweet stuff. When my mom asked me for gift ideas I told her I didn't really have a list going but she could get me some little percussion stuff from the music store. They got me a guiro and a klave -- that's awesome. I also got bedding for a queen-size bed (which I don't have quite yet -- I just bought one this week and the mattress arrived yesterday) and games for a Wii (which I don't have quite yet -- they've been impossible to find). I got Debi some board games and she got me some t-shirts with monkeys and turtles on 'em. Have I mentioned that turtles are like a thousand times more awesome than perhaps every animal except monkeys?
Slouching: The winter doldrums have been hitting me for the last month or so, and I entered into this state of mild anxiety and lethargy characterized by lots of sweets/snacks, video games, and resistance to social outings. It's a seasonal thing, I think, and I'm managing the social part of it pretty well this time. Proof--I haven't done any melodramatic livejournal catharses yet and I've still been going out most weekends. I guess I've got this new mental discipline that cuts off a lot of negative feelings that I might've had in the past immediately and redirects them into positive ones. Sounds real zen, right? Really it just means I tell myself to suck it up and go have a ball and a biscuit. And take my sweet time about it.
Games: Speaking of, what happened was I got hooked into the new Final Fantasy game as a sort of nostalgia thing. I've been chipping away at it steadily over the last few months here and there. Meanwhile my other projects are gestating. That's what it is, gestation.
Other Projects!: I have a new Memerock song in the works but I need to come up with some more lyrics for it before I can finish recording. I have the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums done, which is the intensive part. Once that's all done, I've got a new master plan to do a serious creative project. I figure I've finished a lot of songs now, I have the planning skills now, and I've convinced myself that I like to write, so I'm going to take all of my hobbies and try to produce at least one episode of a narrated serial epic, including soundtrack and maybe sound effects. THAT'S THE PLAN. It'll get done when it gets done. It's in the gestating phase right now (I'm having a lot of good ideas and the voice recorder is getting a workout. I seem to be having a lot of good ideas while I'm driving, and I come up with better writing when I brainstorm phrases out loud, I think) and I'll start working on it once my last Memerock song is done and I've finished FF12. Obviously I want to do more than one episode but I have to wait and see how difficult it is for me to get it done.
I'm positively wired with caffeine right now, I'm procrastinating a little at work, and I figure I haven't updated in a while.
What am I up to?
Reading: I finished Pinker's The Blank Slate last month (one everyone should read), finished Freakonomics shortly thereafter (the fancy paper makes it look thicker and longer than it actually is -- what's up with the fancy paper?), and now I'm most of the way into this book about one of the Mind and Life meetings between the Dalai Lama and some scientists. I could totally be a monk. If my life ever goes to shit maybe I'll move to India and live in a temple or something. When I finish this I'll be out of books again, but fortunately I got some GIFT CARDS for Xmas.
Xmas!: I got some sweet stuff. When my mom asked me for gift ideas I told her I didn't really have a list going but she could get me some little percussion stuff from the music store. They got me a guiro and a klave -- that's awesome. I also got bedding for a queen-size bed (which I don't have quite yet -- I just bought one this week and the mattress arrived yesterday) and games for a Wii (which I don't have quite yet -- they've been impossible to find). I got Debi some board games and she got me some t-shirts with monkeys and turtles on 'em. Have I mentioned that turtles are like a thousand times more awesome than perhaps every animal except monkeys?
Slouching: The winter doldrums have been hitting me for the last month or so, and I entered into this state of mild anxiety and lethargy characterized by lots of sweets/snacks, video games, and resistance to social outings. It's a seasonal thing, I think, and I'm managing the social part of it pretty well this time. Proof--I haven't done any melodramatic livejournal catharses yet and I've still been going out most weekends. I guess I've got this new mental discipline that cuts off a lot of negative feelings that I might've had in the past immediately and redirects them into positive ones. Sounds real zen, right? Really it just means I tell myself to suck it up and go have a ball and a biscuit. And take my sweet time about it.
Games: Speaking of, what happened was I got hooked into the new Final Fantasy game as a sort of nostalgia thing. I've been chipping away at it steadily over the last few months here and there. Meanwhile my other projects are gestating. That's what it is, gestation.
Other Projects!: I have a new Memerock song in the works but I need to come up with some more lyrics for it before I can finish recording. I have the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums done, which is the intensive part. Once that's all done, I've got a new master plan to do a serious creative project. I figure I've finished a lot of songs now, I have the planning skills now, and I've convinced myself that I like to write, so I'm going to take all of my hobbies and try to produce at least one episode of a narrated serial epic, including soundtrack and maybe sound effects. THAT'S THE PLAN. It'll get done when it gets done. It's in the gestating phase right now (I'm having a lot of good ideas and the voice recorder is getting a workout. I seem to be having a lot of good ideas while I'm driving, and I come up with better writing when I brainstorm phrases out loud, I think) and I'll start working on it once my last Memerock song is done and I've finished FF12. Obviously I want to do more than one episode but I have to wait and see how difficult it is for me to get it done.