i just found this old thing and dusted it off. seems to work okay.
it's thanksgiving break, which means instead of working 16 hours a day, i'm working like 8-10 hours a day. which means i might get to blog a few times. i spent the weekend in post falls at lindsey's parents house, which was really fun. that place always makes me think of rivendell, for some reason. maybe it's because every time i go there, it's on the heels of some sort of utter madness (the first time it was after the ohio-northwest crossing of 2009, the second time after an 8-day sinus infection). it might also be because there's a sort of relaxingly predictable rhythm to life there, which goes something like this:
1. wake up earlier than usual and eat breakfast (actual breakfast, not just cereal)
2. sit around for a bit and work on my own work (usually grading or something)
3. go do something outside that involves strenuous physical activity
4. return from said activity and make a huge heaping dinner of some sort (eating dinner at actual dinner time)
5. continue working (alternating with watching the history channel) in front of the fireplace
6. at some point in the late evening, go scrounging for food because i ate dinner at actual dinner time
7. eventually fall asleep in front of the fire, wake up, drag self to bed.
it's pretty elven (or elfish, if you want to make tolkien spin in his grave).
other than that, i've been pretty much just working on grad school stuff all semester. in the small breaks that i do have, i've been going out to dinner with people, or watching that 70s show in its entirety with lindsey, or playing some video game because i'm too exhausted to do anything smart. which means i haven't made any progress on any outside interests such as book-writing or song-playing, but i'm willing to put that on the back burner for the moment, as the end of classes is in sight (i only have to take ONE class next semester and teach one, and while i'll be doing diss stuff as well, i certainly won't be as busy as i've been for the last 1 1/2 years).
i'm getting some next effects pedals and such for my tube amp, so i'm hoping that'll inspire me to write some more songs, once i finally have time to sit down and think straight.
in geek-hobby land, it has in fact been a pretty awesome semester though, as i've gotten the chance to play a lot of games i hadn't previously played, like KoToR 1 and 2, all three prince of persia games (minus the new one, which i don't yet), and all three homeworld games. my new obsession is warcraft 3, which i somehow didn't play when it came out in 2002. i'm just now at the point of finishing up the expansion campaign, and am looking forward to playing the whole thing over again on the higher difficulty setting once i decompress from RTS land for a month or two. hanging high over my head also is the fact that i've still NEVER finished brood war, despite having played it for no doubt hundreds of hours in the last 10 years. but i think the next thing on the time-wasting, fun-having plate is a run through final fantasy 4-6, and 9-12. which will probably take the entirety of my whole life. i'm skipping 7 and 8 out of principle because, although i love both games, i hate replaying them because there are WAY too many "stop and level up here for 5-10 hours" sections in both of them. i've never played 10 or 12 before, so that should be a good time.
i'm teaching a (potentially) awesome class in the spring. but more about that in a minute.
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