hair today gone tomorrow

I bought some electric clippers and tried to cut my own hair. Well, trim it i guess is the right word. Tim cut my hair earlier in the semester, so I no longer have that part in the middle. Just a longish buzz, now. It was getting long again, so I atempted to buzz it down again myself. Note: I don't have a 2nd mirror so I couldn't see the back of my head. Hilarious consequences, apparently. I'm borrowing a mirror from Ashley to fix it.

Is anybody there?

I think people need to leave more comments on my blog. Just because I don't have a stupid gay dumb Livejournal doesn't mean my blog should go unloved. You. Comment. Now.

I don't like how our semester ends so quickly after Thanksgiving. I've got projects and papers due the week we come back, which happens to be our last week of school. What scheduling idiot thought it was a good idea to close the university for 5 days before the semester ends? Now I'll go home, ignore school for 5 days while I hang Xmas lights, eat good food and go to sporting events; and then come back and have crap due that Monday. No good. I have a feeling my suitcase will be full of books.

By the way, my parents offered to fly me home this year, for some reason. And when Tim told his parents I was flying home, they offered to buy him a plane ticket. Do you see the potential this has? "Tim's parents got him a car. They said something about actually loving their son..."

christmas came early

The end of my xbox saga....or the beginning?

I went to Best Buy tonight, and yes, finally bought an xbox. God decided to have one last jab at me, though. He broke the register as I tried to swipe my card. After much standing and talking from Best Buy's crack customer service personnel, we went to a different register. The transaction went through and now I am the proud owner of Halo 2. Goodbye life. Tim was convinced we would get in a horrible car accident on the way home, just to make the irony complete. HA, take that, Fate! Gimme your best shot!

Are you up for it?

I want to make a promo for The Daily Update, our student newscast that we tape at the asscrack of dawn. I like editing and producing commercials more than news stories. The news is so serious, and there isn't as much time for creative production or editing. Plus, I can't use David Bowie songs in the news. I need a slogan for this promo. Maybe "Daily Update. It's interesting if you're high," or "Trusted. Respected. Experienced. Not us." Hmmm...

I keep fighting myself on this Halo 2 issue. By issue I mean, "Should I buy an Xbox and get Halo 2?" It seems like such a simple thing, but it's not. Here's a little history of my life with an xbox.

It was the Spring of 2004. I had just finished a tough junior year, and had plans to travel and work over the summer. Before my adventures started, I visited my hometown of Spring, Texas, and rediscovered a game called Halo at Ryan's house. It reminded me of a simpler, easier time sophomore year when we played with people down the hall. I decided to purchase an xbox from Ebay. The deal I found was good. $125, came with some games and an extra controller, I believe. A week after buying it, the seller still hadn't shipped. I contacted him, several times actually, to see when he would. Turns out he was on a business trip, and would send it when he got home. Another week passes and I don't have anything, so again I bug him. Turns out his house burned down while he was away, along with the xbox. True? Who knows, but I got my money back, except by this time I was in Paris for my summer school.

July 2004. Back from Paris. Working a lot at the student center, and have saved up enough money to again afford an xbox. I try to go a little bigger, and up my price range. I'm looking in the 250's, untl I stumble upon a steal. A gem. Too good to be true. An xbox with 38 games, 38 games! for $290 + S&H. And these are good games, too. 2005 sports games, Halo, Spiderman 2, Star Wars, some racing, some action. Virtually every decent game for the xbox. I buy it enthusiastically...and wait. No confirmation from the seller. No shipping info. No returned emails. I get her phone number and leave several messages about reporting her to Ebay, demanding refund etc. Finally, she calls me and says she "sent it last week." It never gets here, and she says UPS says it was lost i the mail. Right. She refunds most of my money, but I'm still out $30.

School has started and I stop thinking about xboxes. Then Halo 2 comes out last week, and I want one again. Tues night Tim and I take off on a spur of the moment excursion to Gamestop. I will buy a new xbox w/Halo 2 and play it til I fail out of school. Gamestop....is out of xboxes. The window display with price tag and a pyramid of Xbox packages had led me to believe otherwise. Bastards....I had to come back and tape, so there was no time to hit up another store.

Maybe it's a sign I shouldn't get an xbox. When I think about the money, and the distraction it will be in this last month of school, I don't want to buy one. But man, I sure do want to play a new game. And Halo 2 looks fun. And Tim has provided this apartment with lots and lots of video games. Shouldn't I?

i didnt die...

What a crazy three days. I finally got to sleep in today and recover, and it felt great. I've been working like a dog.

Thursday:
6-9 Anchored Daily Update
9-12:30 got ready for class
12:30-2 Sports class does show. I direct, and fuck it up.
2-3:30 Editorial Class
3:30-5 Break, eat
5-11:30 Mustang Idol dress/tech rehearsal

Friday:
12pm Woke up, but I didn't get much sleep the night before
12-2 Finished take home makeup test
2-12 Set lighting cues for Mustang Idol, show prep, show, cleanup
1am sleep

Saturday:
5am Wake up miserable
6 Called for video shoot at Moody
6-1 Videotape a high school robot competition
1-1:30 Lunch
1:30-7:30 Tape more clunky, clumsy robots moving plastic balls around. Teardown, load out
8-1 Tim's movie shoot, gastrointestinal distress.
1-2 Fall asleep at John's, wake up and come home.

I'm feeling much better today, after sleeping all morning. Working 30 hours in 3 days, plus a movie shoot, plus class and homework wore me out. I am taking this week off. No Daily Update, no work, and I'm going to finish as much homework today as possible. It's all late, so I need to catch up on it. How are you?

shattered dreams

I heard the greatest thing on the radio this morning...

"The Flashback Cafe is coming up at noon, and today it's all U2."

Followed by the worst...

"we'll be playing music from their new cd."

Oh Bono, where did you go wrong? If you've heard their new song Vertigo, you know that it sucks. And if you've read Andy's review of their album, you know that's the best song they've got.

I can't believe my ears today.
I can't find that band and make it go away.
Hooow looooong, how long must they sing that song?
Cuz it suuuuuuuucks, Vertigo is no gooooooood.

The new CD should be called "How to dismantle a legendary career".

so much to do

I have dug myself into a hole this semester like none other. These next 2 weeks will be hell because of my procrastination. Everywhere I look I see something I have to do. Dishes piled up in the sink, bills to pay on the table, school work everywhere. I've got campaign finance reports on my floor to make a spreadsheet out of, an ethics book on my desk for a take home test, tapes from the Democratic convention to edit, 2 late journalism stories to do. It's all hitting the fan. It's all due soon, and I can't escape it for even a moment. I guess it's time to stop thinking about it and just do it. Next semester should be easier. Until then...