31 January 2011

Still no sound in my ear. Homework. Writing. Some 3d dot Hero (what?). Blueberry waffles and vegetarian sausage. Practices scales. New song? A Cadd9 E7sus2 D.

23 January 2011

Worlds better today. Sleeping on the floor helped. I think I'm going to sleep on the floor once more tonight. Cleaned my apartment and watched football. Started to organise the old on my computer. Back to work tomorrow.

22 January 2011

I'm sleeping on the floor tonight. I really like the floor. If I could get a real futon - thin ones - like the ones Japanese people really sleep on I'd sleep on the floor regularly. Helps my back and is a lot more comfortable. I'm also taking it easy tonight. There's a party a friend of mine is having a block away. I made a token visit. But I want to sleep properly tonight. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow.

20 January 2011

I feel better but still pretty terrible. My semispinalis whether of cervical or capitis varieties aches. My throat feels as though a hole has been jabbed into it. My left ear drum may have ruptured. I'm out of breath and my eyes burn dry. Rhabdomyolysis, I really hope not. Can lead to acute renal failure. I don't think so. But I have been pressing myself too hard. Three hours of daily exercise with both running and lifting, and I was sick last week. I'm not sure what would have happened yesterday if i hadn't made myself eat. And I came within a few semi-conscious seconds of not being able to do so. If I could barely think my body was precipitously more immobile. But that wasn't my biggest fear. I've become used to being alone, but laying there and knowing that there was no one to help frightened me more than thinking about what would have happened if I hadn't gotten up.

19 January 2011

I woke up today completely dehydrated. It was scary. It got worse as the day went on. No appetite. No desire to move or even drink. Every joint in my body scrapped together. I made breakfast: tea, yoghurt and a bagel. But I couldn't eat it. I forced myself to drink a can of soda. Class was literally painful. Then I had a job interview. I had to fake it. I think I faked it OK. I got got home and crashed. Well I crawled in a ball and my mind went mush. I didn't want to get it. I still had no appetite. I forced myself to eat pancakes even though they had no flavour - they were tasteless. But I think it helped.

18 January 2011

Really good workout today. School is OK. This semester feels strange. I wish something would happen. Everything seems "droning".

17 January 2011

MLK day. Wrote an essay on medical ethics. Are maleficence and malfeasance the same thing? Can't wait to get back into the gym. Would have gone today but it rained all day. Dreary. Finished a technique study. I wanted to see if I could use ink on canvas. I can I think. Next I'm going to try black gesso.

16 January 2011

11 minutes to go before the day is over. What a weird experience last night was - I'll describe it later . . . the short: why a I getting into fights, and almost fights at this age? Well I think at least one guy was deliberately running into me, they other two were just acting like spoiled children. 20 is too young right?

15 January 2011

Everyone I know is lame. They'd all rather sit in a smoky shitty bar and drink themselves silly and smoke cheap cigarettes than see one of the best DJs out there. I think I'm just going to be friends with myself this semester. The older i get the crappier the people I know become. Bah humbug

14 January 2011

Tired. Sore. Three hours of working out and two from yesterday. I have a method. I run a half a mile, stretch, run another half mile, lift, another half mile, stretch again, lift again, and finally (you guessed it) another half mile. We have an indoor track here. Love it. It feel good to know that even though I'm fairly out of shape and older than most everyone else at the gym I'm still faster than everyone there. Thanks cross country and track. Paint sketch tonight. Golden spiral composition in grey-scale - mainly black. This is my normal composition. I was looking to do something easy since I haven't done visual art in a while. Watercolour and gouache. Gouache is about the perfect paint medium. Tomorrow, after it dries, I'm going to go over it - in the opposite direction - in white. I'm also going to hear one of my favourite musicians - Bonobo - do a DJ set tomorrow night. Here's an example of his music. Hope there's some people in town who want to go. People are often so boring here and don't want to do anything unless it involves going to a dive bar. Le sigh. Time for bed (actually I'm going to practice scales for about an hour). Night night.

13 january 2011

Well I missed a day. Just got back form a "social". As boring as they ever were except now I don't have a crew. actually they weren't always boring. Having a crew really helps. I never liked this sort of thing because they're too much chaos. There's thousands of sounds and none of it makes any sense. that's the difference between a bar and a concert or even a club. Sorority girls, so boring. Teaching myself piano and going fairly well. I may actually end up being able to read music. Helps with guitar too. Working on a painting project too. I haven't done one of these in many many a year now. It's on canvas. Since I've been in art school I've only worked ink on paper. But the scope of the projected begged the question. I need to relearn to draw too. See everything I've done in the last few years has been rather abstract and ultimately ended up in a digital form. Now the final form is the canvas. But it's like riding a bike or learning chords ion a guitar - once your muscles know how to play Cmaj they always can. it's really to make technique better. Oh, I think I may have gotten this job - yep yep - yay for me.

10 January 2011

Just realised that I've been putting "2010" into the date of these posts. Oops. First day of Spring classes. i was really tired because I didn't get enough sleep last night. Still need to clean my apartment properly. Watching BCS game as I type. Laters

09 January 2011

Long Day. The wind is howling through the doors of the law school as I type. Got back to Tallahassee a few minutes ago. Everything in my apartment is in good order. Well, except that my cable and internet don't work. Hence, why I'm in the law school typing this. I have a tradition that I eat Burger King in airports. This tradition goes way back. I've skipped it the last few years because I'm trying to be healthy, but I had a pretty intense craving for it today, and well I let myself fall in to it. Met a cute girl in the airport - Italian language graduate student from Chicago. "Blah blah my boyfriend blah blah". At least she was honest about it in the first paragraph. Two classes tomorrow International Intellectual Property and Constitutional law II. Then I gotta get my internet working again and clean up and order books and prepare for Tuesday - getting it on right off the bat.

08 January 2011

So bored. I really messed up. Thought my flight was today when it's really tomorrow. Guess I could watch some more TV. Glug. glug.

07 January 2011

Fly back to Tallahassee tomorrow. Can't wait to get back. A lot of things to do. Finished True Blood Season 3. Much better than season 2. Seems like the second act of a three act play has ended. Almost too much stuff to bring back with me!

06 January 2011

Finishing up with season 3 of True Blood. Will finish it tonight. I like it a lot better than season 2, but it's still not as "magical" as season 1. Season 2 was giant soft-core beer commercial. Season 3 is a lot less of this. Sadly, there's a lot less sex. But the plot is a lot better. But it's also a lot more "Twilighty". Finally got to hang out with hommie M/P. You know you're good friends with someone when you can see them only a few times a year and everything's the same as it always was. It's going to be a busy semester: 15 credit hours, (hopefully) job, two painting projects, an online gallery project, and I need to learn music theory!

05 January 2011

Had Lebanese food with my mum and brother, and a coffee afterwards. Discovered the hole in my memory. Two years ago for New Years I sipped Ouzo and went to Carytown. Last year we had Proseco. See I had merged the two evenings into one memory. Or did I?! I'm really interested in dissecting the song Kid A right now. Three more days and I'm back in Florida. I have an interview on Wednesday. Hope that goes well. Finishing up with the newest Doctor Who this evening. I like Matt Smith, but I liked David Tennant better. Good night.

04 January 2011

Not a lot. Sat in my shorts all - most - of the day. By shorts I mean the Super Mario pajamas my - now married couple - friends gave me last year. Best present of last year might I add. Watched the first few episodes of True Blood season 3 with my youngest brother. Later in the day went to the pub with my dad and his friends. Just woke up from a late evening nap because said brother wants to hang out tonight. Oh and I have a job/internship interview on Monday!

03 January 2011

This is a short blog. Different from my other where I discuss things. This just mentions the day by day.

Woke up bleary after a night of very hard sleeping. Felt weird all day. Didn't do as well in a class as i'd hoped. Went to Trader Joe's to get Ethiopian coffee and Gorgonzola oyster crackers. Got home and got an email wondering if I was interested in applying for an IP (intellectual property) job on campus. Most certainly am. Talked with an old friend for a while. She had something very sad and personal happen recently. I feel honoured she trusted me with the information. I really wanted to hug her over the internet.