A good Friday.

At least, kind of. I did do very little progress towards finding complementary work. I spent some time with a friend, and I watched a little of the Phantom movie. Apparently it's out on DVD. Yay.

My fellow citizens of America and the world: Pay Attention. There's someone here you should listen to. From there, why not start taking steps towards the unified human mind? (Of course, there are a couple of SF stories that say the results of this might not be as rosy as the editorial guy posits, but going in that direction will probably do more help than harm.)

Plus, in the "everybody needs a hobby" category, why the work ethic isn't exactly ethical. That article does make a twisted sort of sense. If we equate work with unhappiness and laziness with free time, then it's no wonder our hobbies aren't great and we're all overweight.

I got in a CD from greyweirdo today. Interesting stuff on the CD, even if there's only a few tracks that I'll keep. Give me an idea of what you might want for the return feed, Weirdo. Genre markings are fine. Otherwise you'll get a CD that I might like, but you might not.

Let's see, that about covers my day today. Not the most productive of times, but not the worst either. I'll have to make a decision as to whether I want to sleep in or go to the band workday tomorrow. Being a graduated senior, the idea most appealing is to sleep in. Considering that I live catty-corner to the band hall, however, makes the pull only that much stronger. We'll see what time I end up getting up and work from there.

Perhaps, instead, I shall do laundry. But that implies that the washer and drier are empty, which has been a dodgy prospect for most of my existence here so far. Maybe I will also go around trying to see if I can't fill out a couple more applications here and there. My geekdom might parlay nicely into a Gamestop job... if any of them were hiring. That's part of what I might be doing tomorrow. So, again, if anybody's got a nice, decently-paying job in the Ann Arbor area or so that they can let me have for the summer, that'd be faaaaaaantastic.

neoboy3000 and I are apparently going to be the victims of a tentacle-whipping if we continue along our current path, courtesy of uncle_pervy. All the more incentive to continue with the positive mindset development. And with that image in your heads, I'm going to bed.

A weekend wasted...

...well, kind of. I probably should have done more job-searching today. Instead, I did laundry. (Which is useful, mind you) And I'll probably be home tomorrow for some part with the Fly-in Pancake Breakfast (if you're in the Napoleon area, go to't, it's cheap and really good.) and helping Mom celebrate a day dedicated to her tireless efforts to turn urchins like myself into respectable gentlemen. The jury's still out on whether she's succeeded or not.

As things are, today might have been my mental equivalent of Thor rolling and smoking a joint. This may not have been a bad thing, either. Although I may do better following an exhortation to enjoy something, I think it will do that the work will be put off for a little bit. And then there's the animation convention coming up - I should really enjoy myself there. Enjoyment seems to be the theme of the day, as I've also run across someone who's noticing the tendency toward making one's own logo and purchasing things that have an "Own Logo" on them. I saw some of this myself, actually - my grand-little sister through my Tau Beta Sigma cross-little hosted the occasional jewelry show for another local artist. The craftsmanship on the items was excellent. Perhaps a side effect of the craftsmanship is that one gets and expects a certain level of quality that mass-produced material does not aspire to nor contain. This may not be true in all areas, but I suspect there is at least a hint of it - or perhaps that one might get better customer service if something should go wrong with a crafted item.

I was also reminded by one of blacktigr's posts of the following Public Service Announcement: Please identify yourself to persons that you may be engaging in communication with, either by voice, by Instant Message, or by the post. This puts your recipient in a much better mood to engage in conversation with, and you will probably accomplish more during your time by doing so. This goes double if your recipient is anxious or absentminded. Thank you.

Yeah, that'll do for tonight. Although I'll also say that my artistic sight might be improving - I sketched some simple things today and was pleased (one of the reference pics from that tutorial link you sent me, BT) and I think I'm starting to understand how some of the lines come together in some of those simple pictures. More practice, of course, is needed. Maybe tomorrow when I get back I'll try and sketch out those other reference pictures in that lesson.