3/3/13

Time to dust off the old blog.

In an effort to document my life and its doings, I'll try to do this thang every weekend.
End discussion of blogging.

Tiana (my fiance and the beautiful creature who took the photo at the head of this post) and I are getting married in T-minus 3 months & 4 days. I'm very excited for a few different reasons, chiefmost being that I am endlessly in love with her. The rest of the reasons run as follows: we're getting 10k from Obama just for making it official, our wedding is going to be bitchingly awesome, we're going on a honeymoon to Banff afterward (this all means about 2 weeks without fried chicken), and it will be the penultimately celebratory kick-off to a summer that will most likely be the best of my short life. I figure all ensuing summers to follow an exponentially graded curve downwards, ultimately claiming my life, happiness, and the control of my endocrine system until I am one miserable, immobile, and very stinky mound of dead youth wishing ardently for some scientist to invent a way for me to cling to the pathetic tatters of what was once worth living. Hmmm.

I have now been attending school full-time while working 20-30 hrs/week for roughly 8 months straight. This has been a long haul of doing a lot of things I would rather not do, for a long time without breaks. However, this lifestyle of misery punctuated with brief rages of freedom has yielded a few beneficial skills, which I am proud of. I have lain a foundation for future study in Computer Science, Chinese, and visual art. I have also discovered how much I enjoy mathematics. I'm considering doing a minor in it, in fact. I like all four of those disciplines for different reasons, although there is perhaps a common vein running through, which is that they are very challenging, yet contain exciting opportunities for advanced application. I hope to travel to China next summer. I hope to learn ample programming skills to land an exciting job. I hope to finish a BFA in painting and drawing, which involves displaying work in a gallery. As far as math goes, I just hope to tackle some complex problems and blow my own mind a little bit.

I've been thinking a lot about how to spend my time this summer. My current working list includes learning to skateboard, getting more involved with programming (any suggestions?), reading comics (I'm devouring Batman comics right now), and saving up to buy this succulent piece of electronic beauty: http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/juno106.php, as well as getting outdoors through hiking/camping/biking.

There's a little catch-up for anyone who may be interested in my life. I've come to the realization that I am a certifiable recluse (save for my interactions with Tiana and the 6 cohabiting animals I look after), and this blog is an attempt to remedy the situation by reminding you all that I'm still here, and I still wish to know and be known. I'm just tryin' to say word 2 my homies, ya feel?

Here's a bit of music I love right now with some heavy positive vibrations to bathe your mind in:

Lotus Plaza is an artist who typically plays with another band I like called Deerhunter. We saw Deerhunter live a year or so ago and he was by far the most impressive on-stage. I like what he brings to that band the most of anyone else involved, and everything I like about him in Deerhunter is available in concentrate form in Lotus Plaza.

Thanks for reading, and, as my current favorite coffee mug says, "You're Terrific!"