Changes Coming

Obviously I've fallen out of the habit of updating this blog every other day. It's not really that necessary, so I've decided to switch to once a week instead. I'll go back to updating more often if I ever feel motivated too, but I haven't had as much time or motivation lately, so instead I'll stick with every Sunday.

Last Wednesday my parents called all my teachers about my interim report, and boy were they mad. I don't think this quarter's grades will be all that bad, but my teachers told them about assignments I've missed and how much I've been falling asleep in class. Of course my parents made everything into a much bigger deal than it has to be, so now they're really on my back about completing assignments. Things like this never last more than a week, usually not that long, and they're not really mad at me anymore, as long as I cooperate for awhile.

Still, it's true that I have fallen into a very bad habit, and that is the habit of wasting time. I've been staying up too late, sleeping in too late, and spending my afternoons and evenings sleeping or reading random things online or just being inactive. I've got things to do! I have to work on things for Khai, I have music of my own to write and record, I've got classes to not fail, and most importantly I have sleep to be gotten.

It's gotten dramatically warmer these last couples days (we had a snow day and bitterly cold temperatures just last Monday, if you'll recall), today I wore a regular long-sleeve shirt and almost felt too warm. So in honor of that, I'm turning over a new leaf. The plan is very simple: go to bed on time, use my free time to do things that I want to do. Guitar, Chestnut Juno, One Knight Stand, school. And sleep. It's really bad how little sleep I've been getting.

LAST WEEK:
Today we saw a traditional Irish concert. The first half was amazing, solo violinist and guitarist, the second half was okay, Irish vocal music (but they talked too much and were really full of themselves). Yesterday was work. Chamber choir had a performance which I did not attend, because we are embarrassingly unprepared and I didn't want to show my face with the group, but luckily I had to work so that will be my excuse. Prior to that was school, time wasting, parental lecturing, etc.

THIS WEEK:
Rachel is coming on Tuesday for spring break! I'll be spending as much time with her as possible until Saturday when she leaves. Also, I'll be enacting the "new deal" as described above.

See you next week.

_Dr. M

Back in again!

Man, one whole week! I really need to start posting again. Every other day, at least.

What's happened since last Tuesday? Well, last week was a very tired week where not much happened. Then a four-day weekend since I was out on Friday and we had a crazy snow day on Monday. Now, hopefully, I'm back into the swing of things.

I'm feeling a little more perky now then I was last week. I got my hair cut at the mall today, I'm very happy with how it turned out. Hair is such an odd thing. I'm trying to grow it out, go for the later John Lennon look. We'll see if that plan survives the summer.

I'm swiftly beating Majora's Mask, which has got me started on my latest project. Ever since I was in grade school, I wanted to design a video game. Just in theory, come up with all the characters, levels, and story lines. Now I've finally come up with a concept and a method that will allow me to do that, assuming I stick with it. Just another creative outlet, and who knows what opportunities life will hand me in the future. Maybe, just maybe, I'll get the chance to propose this idea to someone in the industry some day. You never know.

I totally let the guitar slide last week, so today I bought a poster with guitar tabs to put on my wall, and I'm going to try picking it up again. I need some sort of goal to work towards. And a little self discipline.

College situation: Temple accepted me to the university but not to the music program (ha ha go figure, but I did have a bad audition), I'm not going to audition for Westchester, and we're getting ready to send the deposit into UArts so none of that matters. Hopefully it will all be squared away soon.

Every highschool senior in PA has to complete a "senior project" before they can graduate, which is a volunteer, career-awareness, or academic/creative project (which basically means, do something and write about it). I'm making mine my new album, which is good because now I have a deadline of the last day in April that it has to be done by.

We staged my big number in school show today, and it's going to be a lot of fun. It almost makes the whole mess worthwhile.

I miss Rachel. But she's coming back for spring break next week! So I'm okay.

Only one more real month of school to go, because April and May hardly count, with trips and finals and all. This spring is actually shaping up quite nicely, I haven't been too busy at all.

However, I've decided that instead of just waiting for this school year to end, I should be making the most of the time, since none of us really have that much in the grand scheme of things. So it's time to start a new album, get things going with A One Knight Stand (yes, that's officially the name of my band now), and learn the guitar.

And maybe write a video game.

_Dr. M