Such a long span of time, so little to really say...

So I guess I haven't written in here since September. I've been busy and braindead, but working all the same. Blogging didn't seem like it mattered too much, since there aren't a lot of people who even look at this. I post links sometimes, on Facebook and whatnot, and no one seems to acknowledge. I don't know if they don't want to read stuff, they forget to comment or they just genuinely do not care... I'm not sure I'm really offended either. I'm just ambivalent. Sometimes it's nice not to share your life and everything you do with people. I think after a while the world at large will remember this. Sometimes privacy is a wonderful thing, especially when you're creating and trying to build a life for yourself. That's another blog though, some other time when I'm feeling ardently wistful.

It's kind of weird, perhaps I'm just becoming really 'busy' and involved, for the first time in a long time. It's a good thing I think, in some ways. In others, it's kind of sad. I forget a lot about documenting the daily routines or my ideas or thoughts, but at the same time my energy level has been either very high or very low, or some weird combination. It's kind of like sleepwalking and still getting a normal day's worth of work done.



I took some pics back at the Valient Thorr show at the beginning of October (I think). It went pretty well and they did a fun show. I hadn't listened to them much before, but I have some friends who are ginormous fans, and I'm really glad I got to be a part of it :)
The pictures are here: Valient Thorr - Kansas City, MO

I also have been working on grant writing, and it's pretty involved. Now we'll see if my labors paid off. Of course, I will work hard to make them pay off. If not, my graduate work will have to make big adjustments and that would really suck.


I did get my wish finally and they announced GR dates. I'm going to the February 3 show in Chicago, and will be taking pics there. I don't know if I'll get a 'photo pass', but I've heard the venue is nice about letting people take them anyway. Hopefully that will all work out all right. I just hope I can grab some posters for friends who collect them.

I'm looking forward to winter break. Hopefully I will get my website up (yeah it's still not up, but I made some url and other suchness changes), volunteer at a local animal shelter and help them to get some babies new homes, and possibly get another of my teeth pulled. I'm not looking forward to that last one, but I don't think the majority of human beings really enjoy that sort of stuff.

I guess the only thing to leave with is this, just because... yeah, ahahaha.

Well, today has been a slight bust. I didn't go to my German conversation quiz, but I'm going to just reschedule it. Hopefully my teacher won't mind... My head feels like death and I'm doing my best to be active but it's not working.

I've narrowed my idea for my final photo project down. I think it'll be interesting, now I just have to go through the photos that I took this last week, not nearly enough probably, and get to work on them. If it works, I will either call it 'Story of a House' or 'We Will All Be Ghosts'... I kind of like the second title more, I think it's kind of... well, morbid, but it's me, of course it's morbid. Not in a sad way though, more meditative and reflective I suppose.

The photos I took that stood out the most were some photos of beds at the house... I thought about trying to do a series of those, just beds, in natural light, with lots of shadow, but I'm not sure if I have access to enough places to warrant 20 of those... buh. No biggie though, there are lots of different shots to work with, so I'll keep plugging away and do some editing tonight during class where I can have some distance from home and the internet and things that pull my focus away.

Buh... I'm tired... before long I suppose I should actually get out of bed, but I have potted some plants today and spent time with Mr. Bear, and also transcribed an interview my friend Holger did with Jon Oliva. It was a really nice interview. I feel kind of bad skipping out on his band at Progpower, but eh, it happens. I don't regret leaving though, for so many reasons...

It's going to rain, my bones are letting me know in advance... PEH.

Slow news day

Well, not much is going on today yet... I have a cracked tooth that hurts a bit, yet no money, and there are a lot of deadlines approaching. So what do I do? Look up Gamma Ray stuff on youtube... haha.

I feel kind of bad for Kai, doing ninety billion interviews with the same questions that have been floating around since he left Helloween has to get kind of irritating.

I am really not too keen on going outside today. Last time I looked at the weather it said it's only 8 degrees F, and yeah... screw that.

Maybe I should switch to a liquid diet until I get this tooth fixed... owww....

I'm going to try to get some photos of process up here before long, hopefully this afternoon, to show more of what I'm working on right now. I got some cool stuff last night to work with as well. Yeehawr!