Change of Name

Finally decided on a name change for the ol' blog. It'll do for now at least.

Right now I'm still sorta stumped creatively over what I should make my movie about. I also now have an additional assignment which is having me rack my brain, although it shouldn't be as tough to come up with something. I do need to have a rough production book for it by Monday with the idea completely fleshed out, so time is of the essence. The project requires that I line up 10-15 still photos that will play one at a time (and they can't move across the screen, zoom in or out or do anything fancy like they usually do with still photos on TV these days). Underneath the photos we need to lay out 7 tracks of audio that play without any gaps whatsoever (this is harder than it might sound). The audio is supposed to tell a story that goes along with the photos. It's actually a very cool project, but again I seem to be running short on good ideas. I need some creative friends to help me out with concept creation. Execution shouldn't be a problem.

Spanish Seminar is getting lamer every class I attend. Yip.

Corey came through a couple days ago, visiting from Vermont. I hadn't seen him since New Years so it was refreshing to catch up and just chill with one of my oldest friends. As it was Tuesday night and rainy, there wasn't a whole lot going on, but we made it out to Allston to see Cecilia and quasi-celebrate Jayme's birthday, although is was extremely low key. Jayme seemed much less enthusiastic about the big deuce-deuce then she did a year ago when 21 hit.

Today I went to the doctor's for a checkup to see if this mono is making its exit yet. My spleen is still enlarged apparantly, although it is better than before. 2-3 more weeks it should be down entirely. Waiting to hear about my bloodwork to see if my liver is back to normal. I'll know by noon tomorrow, and if all is well, I can be enjoying a frosty beer shortly after. Otherwise who knows what sort of shit I'll have to deal with next? I just want to be better and back to normal at this point.

My return to Starbucks was delayed another week because of my boss forgetting to put me on the schedule. I'm somewhat apprehensive about my coming back as the store has been shaken up a good bit and a lot of the old familiar faces are going or already gone. As of the first or second week of October, we'll be down to one supervisor (plus the two managers) so I'm sure I'll be put on the fast track towards promotion out of sheer necessity. I'm still remaining optimistic as that store has been cool since I started working there 2 and a half years ago, despite a staff that has changed a whole lot.

Ridiculousness Worth Mentioning: Chilling in my room late last night with a friend and we suddenly noticed my across the alley neighbor (her window is not even 10 feet away from mine) opens up her blinds. As we are so close, we unavoidably make brief awkward eye contact, and then she commences to dump three seperate loads of garbage four stories down onto the ground. What the hell? I won't lie, I've been known to throw a thing or two out a 4th floor window during my college career, but I've generally made sure it was something the rats would be able to take care of: A rotting pepper here, some old leftover chicken there. Not three trashbags full of bottles, wrappers, and whatever else was lying around the place (including what looked like some old shelving). Also, I had enough shame to at least look around first to see if someone might have spotted me. This girl definitely knew we were watching yet didn't hesitate to hurl all this shit out her window. How tactless.

I really need to get some storyboarding done tonight, so I'm gonna stop procrastinating.