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So it is late, or early depending on your viewpoint. I have been working for quite a good portion of the night on a video I am working on. I believe it to be rather awesome. But that is just me. I have absolutely nothing to really discuss at this point in time but I need to because I need to have this done for the morning! So let me hope I can find something to talk about, even if it is pretty pointless. Yeah!

So I have this intro to Excel class. I find it pretty amusing seeing as I will be graduating soon and I am in this class with pretty much all culinary freshmen. Funny indeed. Either way, it is actually pretty nice to have so many fresh new faces running around the school because it feels a lot more exciting. Last quarter felt so empty and desolate it was feeling a bit lonely. Now it actually feels a bit exhilarating with so many people constantly walking around and filling up all the classrooms. And a fellow I work with started going to RMC for culinary so it has been nice to run into him every once in awhile as well.

Work has been so slow lately it is getting a little scary. Barely any of us have great hours anymore because our owner can't afford to pay us all with how slow it is. Very scary indeed. I am sadly another 4 hours down this quarter due to a really lame school schedule on Mondays. Needless to say it is definitely money and hours I really cannot be without, but I unfortunately have no say in the matter. All I can hope for is that business actually starts picking up a bit soon and we can all luckily be back to some regular scheduling. Besides that, work has been work. The usual with a few people getting on my nerves but not really letting it get to me. Having fun with the people I do enjoy there, and making tons of sandwiches...wooo.

Ok, next thoughts...I am excited for my halloween costume this year. I am going to be Andrew WK and it is going to be sick. I still need to get my costume and what not, but am pretty secure on where to get everything. I am going to party so hard. Jesse and Jeanna and the gang are going to have a sweet party the weekend before Halloween and I am pretty stoked for that. I hope I get my sweet bike from Jesse by then. I cannot wait to start riding. I have just had such a horrid urge to bike even though I am not really the best rider at all. I also cannot wait to get my sweet new bag to go along with my bike.

Last thought. I feel bad for the brief nature of this blog, as well as the stale subject matter but my mind is currently drawing many blanks from many sides. Tomorrow is my Excel class again. Luckily I have a new friend in the class. A friend of a friend actually, but a new friend never the less. It will make class a bit more fun and hopefully I can borrow her book because I really do not feel like spending money on one this far ahead in my college career. What else? I have been listening to a lot of Radiohead lately, as well as Editors. While driving in my car, sadly it is the new Slipknot. I can't help it for the fact I listened to it enough to actually have it grow on me. The music is pretty darn catchy and the vocals (sans singing) are finally up to par with the old style of screaming. Something I thought would never happen again. Sure I feel lame for admitting I like the new Slipknot, but it is my guilty pleasure and I will take any slack for it. Besides all the pointless stuff I've gone over I can't really think of much more. I need to get to bed soon though because I have a long day of animating coming, as well as a long long weekend with tons of work already. This quarter is going to kick my behind in ways I never thought possible. But if I come out of it...I will rock.

Real Life @ RMU

Christopher

Program: Graphic Arts Hometown: Blue Island, IL. Campus: Orland Park

Hey there internet. It has been quite awhile. I have been busy with the usual. You know, life and school and work and the such. But I am working hard and trying to do the best I can possibly do in hopes of so much more. This is a big month for me and my future life because there is a lot of stuff going down that could radically affect my life. An awesome contest, a big interview and getting all my stuff together for senior show. I won't really go into detail because I suppose I like being secretive about a lot of this stuff, but if things were to go my way I would be absolutely speechless and probably wouldn't know what to do with myself for a while. But there would definitely be some major partying going down. Anyway, that has honestly been the main points of my life as of late. I wish there were these huge life changing things going on but it has been more of the same and just trying to tackle all that I can when i can. I have a meeting with my academic advisor today and hopefully I figure out just what is left for me at RMU and I can really start getting a full life plan together. Slightly unnerving but exciting at the same time.

Last night Sarah D. and I went to go see Quarantine. After watching the film I did a bunch of research on the internet to figure out more about the film and its background. I usually do this after seeing a movie I am not familiar with at all. But before I get into that let me say I did actually enjoy the film. It has been awhile since I've seen a scary film, let alone in theaters so it was an interesting situation. I didn't get too freaked out except near the end. I have been wondering lately how I would react to intense fear if something were to happen in my real life since I'm usually so quiet when it comes to pain or being scared and other such things. Either way there was just lots of whispering and being all antsy when I got scared so I guess that answers my question. Overall though I enjoyed it. Back to the research though. As with all american films, we are pretty stupid so this was yet again another remake of a movie that just came out a little over a year ago in Spain under the name [REC]. A lot of people said the original was better, and I am probably sure that they are right. They pretty much redid the entire film shot for shot. And not to mention the fact the whole thing was shot in the first person POV I can't really see how a different group of writers and directors could even really take credit for it. But I digress.

I am absolutely loving the weather right now. It is my favorite time of all year, and all I could wish is that I was sharing it with someone that I'm not right now. I've been better the past few weeks but have realized that a part of me is gone and I haven't been the same since. I'm sort of going through the motions of life but it isn't as fulfilling as it should be. It is almost like I am just watching my life play out as if my eyes were a television screen and I'm just watching what's going on without actually having any say in the matter. It is an odd feeling that every once in awhile I realize and it makes me feel really weird. I would say 'oh it's just a phase' but this phase has been going on for quite some time now. Blah blah blah, I should try and sound more positive.

So I've really wanted to build my own drum set lately. Like really really bad. Not necessarily build it from scratch myself by any means, but actually order everything separate, all custom stuff and then put it together. I've been doing the math and custom drum companies are kind of a sham really. They all use nearly the same exact stuff to make your kit, it just ends up being a different paint job and name on the kit. I could save nearly 3K going the route I would like to not to mention I could get superior quality goods, and it would just be super fun. I have been itching for some music time so bad lately it isn't even funny. Playing the drums in my head has been at an all time high and I am constantly hitting things with my drum sticks. Hopefully someday soon I can make that a reality, with my kit. Sigh.

I think it is probably about time to get going though. I actually have a lot of stuff planned for the following days and this weekend. There is basically the work that I have a whole class for that I need to try and get done by Tuesday. So needless to say I am going to be pushing myself to get a lot done in a short span of time. I have lots of things to accomplish and now is the time that I have to push it into that extra gear. I've told myself that many times and if I were a car I would have such a crazy transmission because there would probably be like 10 different gears in it because I am constantly trying to one-up myself. And I might get my bike this weekend! I would be super super excited if that happened. My guy Jesse has some bikes finally for me to check out at Working Bikes downtown and I am uber stoked. But that is all for now. Until next time internet. Hopefully I will be having some really good news coming up. This is exactly what I have been working for all this time and I am hoping I finally get my recognition. Blam.