Back to Reality

I'm back settled in Michigan. It's consistently in the 50s here now, and I'm afraid of being premature and jinxing our good fortune, but I think somebody found old man winter and finally put one through his heart. I'm sure of this because yesterday I drove around with the windows down and the Apples In Stereo playing, and everything felt really good and right.

Coming back from Los Angeles to Minnesota I met a guy named Duncan on the flight and we talked for hours about everything from writing to library senior programming, and the xenophobic nature of mankind. Usually during flights I plug into my headphones and disappear either in a book or into writing until I fall asleep, but this time, when the snack cart came around I took of my headphones and the conversation started up about how clean my handwriting is. It was a welcome change of pace.

I was in Minnesota long enough to get a beer and watch an episode of the Office on the bar's television before I hopped a terrifying little puddle jumper up over the great lakes and then back home.

Now it's back to school, and work, and generally just biding my time for another 38 days until graduation is at last upon us.

Yesterday was errand day. I took care of some library stuff, got a haircut (one that will be good, eventually, but that I look in the mirror at and think "you're not bad, but I'm not happy..") and had lunch with my mom.

I'm also starting to prep for this event much in the vein of NaNoWriMo called Script Frenzy. Over the course of April the goal is to write a hundred page script (Movie, TV, Comic, Stage, whatever). Because I'm going to be in the midst of finals insanity, my friend Duke and I are collaborating on a new idea. I'll be blogging the progress of that over the course of April as well as Graduation stuff.

Other than that I've not been up to a whole lot. Wrote two songs over break (the first new songs I've written in 3 years). For a while there I was worried that this was the end of my song writing days. If I ever get around to recording them, I'll post them, if not then you'll have to come out to Homegrown open mic in Lansing to hear them.

Now I'm stuck at home cleaning my room and watching movies, and thinking about how I'd rather be reading comics.

Just a quickie before class starts.

I had an extra hour to kill, so I went to the library (big surprise there). Figured I'd drop a quick update.

I got my baritone tuned up and jury rigged a really cheap connection to our stereo system in the apartment so I could get a basic idea of what this monster sounds like. It's beautiful. I need to talk to Forrest about what kind of Amp I should get it. And I need to ask Brandon about the effects, and about why they aren't working. It's probably a battery thing, but yeah. Definitely need to get it looked at. Either way, it sounds beautiful.

Managed to get the rider out of his situation. I let it sit for a couple days, and then it came to me while I'm at work. His dead wife started talking to him. And he's taking a quick detour south from his westward ride to kill the brother of the jerk who killed his family. I figure that'll toss another great battle scene in and then give me some leverage to put him westward.

This makes me really nervous. Thank god we are down to just a little more than a year left.

World War Hulk starts soon. Very jazzed for that.

Heading home to Ben and Katie's wedding this weekend. Pictures sure to follow.

Still dealing with sucky blogginess. It seems that this computer likes changing text into some Hindi dialect or whatnot. I really hope blogger manages to get this figured out.