Mara

Last night I went with Thomas and Shaun to see the North Mississippi Allstars at the Variety, much thanks to WREK rep. It definitely was a much-needed show, as I have not seen a show proper since 2008 began.

Them funky blues must have invaded my psyche, because last night I had one of the most horrid and lengthy nightmares I've ever had in which a nuclear device exploded in the city, and while those who could survive tried to take shelter in thick buildings some kind of Resident Evil-style (except much faster and far more sentient) zombies began relentlessly attacking survivors and after many macabre deaths (including that of Steve Jobs for some reason) we were able to communicate with them, and then they put us through an elaborate and extremely difficult series of group or one-on-one "survival games," of which some were deadly to play and others were not (like "twenty questions"), but failure resulted in death for sure, and success merely resulted in more games. It was as I was reflecting in the dream whilst going through such a gauntlet at the utter despair I faced - no hope for food or water and simply playing on until a mistake comes, should I continue playing the game or succumb to Death of the Endless? - that I was bitten by a small black bug on my leg in this "real" life, and after squashing it, I lay shivering for an hour, unable to return to sleep. I think that the "no end in sight" may be an allegory for a Battle I am fighting right now.

I can think of only one comparably awful nightmare, which was had when I was sleeping across from the "haunted" room in the ancient East Wing of Sumatanga's lodge whilst a counselor for elementary camp there several years ago. The dream then was a sixth "Planet of the Apes" based on the original continuity (not a dream of me watching it, but the dream was in fact the imagined film) and the end of that dream still haunts me to the point that if I ever become a filmmaker I will include it shot-for-shot and sound-for-sound as the end of my masterpiece.

Butter Scraped Over Too Much Bread

I am way exhausted and I still have a large homework to do. Gotta keep movin, keep movin, blues falling down like hail.

*men-

A long time ago, one of the last people I'd ever expect to teach me something like this made me realize that "amusement" literally derives from the statement "without thought."

Amidst This Fading Light

I didn't check my email for over 24 hours, and I not only cooked tonight, but I did it with no meat. Plus we cleaned about 70% of the horror that has been our house.

Soon, very soon, I will begin playing with my camcorder and seeing what that will look like on here.

On LWCMMAC14

This is about the eighth time I have tried to copy this disc of old AIESEC GT videos, which I spent eight hours in the fall transferring from VHS.  I'm also painfully hungry and a small bag of pretzels ain't cutting it, but I am hoping for some deelish food after tonight's GPM.

The itch of playing music grows more prominent.  Willy B and Shaun managed to keep the house downstairs, praise Xenu, with our friend John in there for the summer and none other than f' in there for the rest of the duration.  That will make a downstairs full of musicians and an upstairs with one.  Rock on.

This past weekend was our summer leadership team retreat.  It was remarkably shorter and noncontroversial, relaxing at the lake was great and we also got to have lunch at Maddie's which was furthermore relaxing and delicious.

I have gotten, a little, back into gaming.  The Wii is so easy to play and I'm really digging on Smash Bros. Brawl and Zelda: Twilight Princess.  Some people hate on games, but for me, I learned a magnificent amount about many things from them, and I still have love for Final Fantasy which was more influential than just about any book I read for an assignment.

The disc finally burned successfully.

Gonna Bring It On Home To You

Only have time for this much:

I passed all my classes. 2.4 GPA. All C's but one A. Still have above a 3 GPA. That is behind me now. Time to gear up.

AIESEC coming back into major focus. Went to Canada NLDC and there not only was it an amazing conference that is so much more professional than any one I've been to in the US, but they LOVED the engineering PBoX idea, which now has a name: "Engineer the Next Generation" a.k.a. Project01. It was definitely an important conference for me. Plus, the day and night in Oxford, OH was, shall we say, rad.

I plan on enjoying my classes. I plan on enjoying brewing beer in the breakfast nook, courtesy of Thomas' brother's donation while he goes to live the AIESEC dream in Costa Rica for a year. Looking forward to hanging out, in general, and reading, and catching up on some Wii (when it's rainy outside) and riding my bike. But mostly I plan on rocking the AIESEC world and AIESEC GT especially with Project01 and being a better LCP.