Well i haven’t really elaborated much on work, because i have been pretty busy since i started. I really like it here. I really like the people i work with. I am encountering, for the first time in a long time, many people who know a heck of a lot more than i do about audio, recordings, audio software, and the audio hardware industry. I have only been here about a week and a half, and i’m still learning the tech support ropes, so i haven’t really been able to do anything with the engineers.

But i love that it’s my job to know as much as possible about computer recording and audio. I have access to a boatload of high-end commercial software and hardware products, things that i’ve been dying to try. A whole office full of gear to hook up. I can’t wait to be able to purchase some of this high-end gear and use it at home.

Yeah, that’s probably the only downside so far: i get so many great ideas while i’m at work, and i want to buy so much stuff, but i have neither time nor money to go out and do it. Over the course of the summer, however, this will all change, and i should be on my way.

Speaking of being on my way, i can kinda see the end in sight. The end of undergraduate education, the start of a career. My life has had some pretty drastic changes over the past 5 years, but now i am seriously approaching escape velocity. To that effect, i’ve been advised to start a savings account and stop spending all of my money. ummm.

on my way to work this morning i drove past this girl who was driving in her cap and gown.
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here’s a photo of some of the people i played soccer with this spring. Our team name was “The One-Peats” and we went to the finals. This photo was taken of the people who showed up to play our last game. There were more people on the team, but this photo is the only remaining evidence of who played. So it’s like those other people never even existed.

Will Haas and Cydney Palmer were the team co-captains, and they are pictured on the far left. something incredible: the fill flash did a perfect job in this shot. i think Des took the photo. not sure. and yes, i consider myself “one of the girls”.

with finals. ok so i have one more on saturday morning, of all times, and it’s for that math class that i shouldn’t have to take, and i’m only getting 1 hour of credit for the 3 hour class, so its like just a mirage of a final anyways. in fact, if i go take it on saturday morning and then come back and get in bed and then wake up a couple hours later, it will only remain in my memory as a bad dream, a faint flicker of pain, a tiny prick in the conciousness of imagination, an impossibly miniscule…. yeah.

this is one semester where i actually believe i’m going to come out on top. I already have at least one A in the bag. 4 to go for a 4 point oh.

Remember how last semester i totally missed one of my final exams because i was mistaken about the time, but the professor was like “It’s ok, you have an A.” Well. i overslept for my Lab final and almost ruined my life, but i rushed to school and the Lab professor was like “Whoa there, take it easy, go get a drink of water, breathe slowly, sit over here and take it now.” so i took it.

i’ve started the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredible Close,” per the recommendation of a friend, and i love it. strange, wonderful, completely original story. i was at the bookstore and i was deciding between it and “Wild Ducks Flying Backwards” by tom robbins. The choice was extremely and incredibly easy to make when i found out my gift card only had $20 on it and the robbins book was $25, hardcover only.

finals begin in less than 5 days. My current grades are good. i just need to hold on.

but yesterday, folks, i made a serious job decision.
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went to the festival internationale today, twas a lot of good fun. went with des and saw a couple groups, like an exciting Haitian group that got the crowd on its feet, a little bit of some Frenchman singing the acoustic blues, and listened to the “Latin Afro-Pop Queen” at the end. Also sprinkled in was a small musical group of Native Americans playing their flutes and ukes. too bad i was only able to stay for about 2 hours, had to make it back for work in BR.

Well. michelle also came to visit this weekend and we got some bonding time squeezed in. that was very nice. Something about siblings, no matter how long you’ve been apart or how many new experiences you’ve had, you know each other’s very core, you were there when it was formed and even played a quasi-essential role as a flesh-and-blood counterpoint to them. Everything new that happens to each other just adds more layers or different colors, and i find these nuances are usually communicated subconsciously.

and how about that flood yesterday. wow. hmm. about the most exciting thing happening these days, according to the channel 2 news.

so all of you are asking me, david, what’s your general feeling about life right now? well you can put away those small and cute neon-colored journalistic notebooks, because i’m not going to tell you. Just kidding. of course i’m going to tell you. my reply is that i feel very much in a state of transition. with the semester almost up, i can’t wait to find out for sure about PreSonus, so I can choose between summer jobs.

i think i need that comforting feeling of decisiveness, making a strong comittment to life and living it now and not looking back and wanting to do things differently. School makes you really try to evaluate life as if you could take things back, because you can actually quantify the difference of doing the “right” thing in school. You can say, “Oh geez, if my grades had been just this much better,” and prove, with numbers and such nonsense, that life would be more or less going in the “right” direction.

so finals happen next week. gross. but necessary. kind of like digestion.