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Good lord, crazy stuff just happened.

I was over in Hamilton Hall, SCAD’s film building, because I had to capture the project I had shot this past weekend (you shoot on tape then you capture it with a tape deck to turn it into editable digital footage). It was about 9pm or so and a deck had just opened up so I began capturing my footage. About 5 minutes into the process, it started raining: hard. Everyone was like “what?” Soon after, water started pouring into the room through the ceiling. There was a huge leak and it was going all over one of the computers. I pulled out my phone to take a picture and as I pressed the button all of the lights went out.

“Crap.” I figured the generators would come on and we’d be back in business… but nothing. The staff came around and told us we should leave, there were no generators (apparently there’s just too much equipment there and there’s no way of powering everything). I had to leave Hamilton… with my tape still in the deck. I talked with a staff member and they told me they’d have my tape there tomorrow, but if someone takes it, I’m screwed: that’s 100% of my raw footage, without it there’s no proof I ever did the assignment.

I ran outside through the pouring (read: pouring) rain and waded through water already up to my ankles to jump into my vehicle (keep in mind that I also have my 500gb external hdd in a bag: hopefully it didn’t get wet). I close the door and start up the car, and dial Mallory on the phone to tell her how crazy this all was.

At least I thought it was crazy. When I pulled out of the Hamilton Hall parking lot, there were garbage cans everywhere, apparently the wind blew them into the street. After I dodged all of them I turned right onto MLK and realized this wasn’t any ordinary storm. All of the traffic lights were out as far as I could see. There were ambulances, police and fire trucks everywhere. And needless to say, there were wrecked cars all over the sides of the street. When the stoplights went out people apparently ran into each other, and lord only knows how many deaths happened tonight because of it.

I drove home very, very slowly with mostly straightaways (one left turn, and that was the hardest turn I’ve ever had: no one knew who should go). The water was halfway up my tires for much of the trip. I pulled into the dorm and realized that nowhere in the city had power: the entire city of Savannah lost power tonight. It was truly something out of a horror movie. People were just outside of their dorms, confused. Projects obviously had to be put on hold since it’s impossible to work without electricity: you need either light to see or a computer to work with.

We talked to some folks and decided to go out to the car to listen to the radio and get some news. On our way out to the vehicle the power of the dorms came back all at once—and everywhere else, too. Looking down the street, it seems like the stoplights are functioning as well. We went back to the room and I checked my computer, everything’s working fine. Hamilton closes in an hour, though, and I have no desire to go back out tonight. Too much adventure for me.

So that’s the story of the night that the lights went out in Georgia. I’ve still gotta work on a Life Drawing project for the morning, and I have an entire midterm to edit tomorrow (amidst going to two classes)—and I hope that the tape is still there. Might be hard to explain to my professor that it was in the deck when the power went out and someone never turned it in…

February 2009 is coming to a close and we’ll soon be entering March. With March comes spring, and the end of cold weather. Unfortunately, living in Georgia and having a girlfriend in Wisconsin keeps me from ever being able to say anything about how cold it is. “I froze to death because it was 55º today” will only get a “55º isn’t cold!” out of her. It’s been nice as of late, though. 70º today here… she’s battling a winter snow storm.

Things in Stephen-land™ have been up and down I guess. I’ll try and backtrack to February 1st (my last big blog update) and remember things that happened after that.

Looking at it now, I had stated I wasn’t writing for Tree From My Youth. That has changed. When I originally wrote that, the cast was having some issues coming up with a solid time to write the script (it’s written collaboratively), and the time they eventually chose was a morning to afternoon, something I definitely cannot do. Seeing as how I was screwed in that department, I started thinking about how nice it would be to not have to write for another year, so I decided not to. It was less than a week later, though, that I was approached to come back. The writing times changed and I reconsidered. As of now, TFMY has released one episode and written the second. The first episode wasn’t so bad, but writing the second made me realize how much I hated writing FaB (I don’t think the actual writing was an issue, but working with others is something I’ve always had a problem with—I prefer to work on projects alone). Even so, I’ve decided to keep at it. Tree From My Youth is something that I feel needs to be brought into this world, and I’m going to have my hand in it in some form. It’s going to be a rough road, though, especially with some of the hard-nuts I have to work with *shudders*.

The more I think about that the more aggravated I get, so I’ll move on to something more cheerful.

This past Friday my Xbox 360 encountered hardware failure, also known as the “red ring of death”. I was in the middle of playing Call of Duty 4 with the folks from Starmen.net when my game froze. I restarted and it froze again. After freezing one more time, the box wouldn’t even come on. Bam. Red ring of death. It’s free to fix, but I’m out of a 360 for a few weeks. A minor inconvenience, I reckon. We’ve been playing a lot of Super NES games since then (my original xbox is modded so we have a ton of emulators), and I guess it’s a nice change.

Also, since the last update I released a new video. For my class we had to create a Film Noir-style video in groups of 4, so myself and 3 others produced Mystery Dick. It was written by Pat Leonard, with some basic foundational ideas stemming from all 4 of us. The great thing about not being the writer is that if someone hates it you can always say “yeah, well I didn’t write it”, heheh (sorry Pat!). I did a majority of the cinematography and directing, and all of the editing (which is all I really wanted to do in the first place). It’s not my finest work and the comedy is definitely not for everyone (I’ve been hesitant to post it on the front page of the site, especially since there’s been other content to fill it), but if you’ve got the 13 minutes, maybe you’ll like it.

Today marks the completion of week 8 out of 10 for this quarter. 2 more weeks and I’m out of here! This quarter has gone quite swimmingly and I plan on finishing strong. I’m most astonished at how well I’ve done in Math: after taking three exams I’ve managed two 95s and a 98. I always thought that I sucked in math (and honestly I still think that), but I’m realizing it was probably more of the fact I didn’t pay attention (hey, it was boring).

More importantly, I’m 2 weeks away from spring break, which means 2 weeks from Mallory. It will have been just about 3 months from when I had last seen her, and I’m ready for another visit—I miss her terribly. I talk to her everyday on Skype and we video chat all the time which has helped an immense amount. I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been with just telephones, or even before that. Long-distance relationships are definitely more successful these days because of technology, so I’m thankful for that. Another thing to note is that in 10 days we’ll be celebrating our one year anniversary. It’s crazy to think that it’s already been a year. I’m more in love with her than ever, though, so I’d say things are definitely working out. Here’s to another wonderful year with a wonderful woman :)

The last thing I’ll update with is that I’ve decided on a good summer project: building a Hackintosh. For those uninformed, a hackintosh is a Mac built with PC components. Basically, imagine getting a Mac Pro, but instead of paying $7500 you only pay $1500. The process has become incredibly easy (you can even use a retail DVD of Leopard now), so now’s definitely the time. Not only will I have the most incredible Mac on the block, but also the most incredible PC. It’s something that excites the geek in me, heheh.

More later if I think of it.

A wonderful, hilarious story for you. Seriously, this is great.

Dan Settembrini lives next door to me in the dorms here at SCAD. There’s about 5 or 6 of us who almost always eat together in some combination. There’s a restaurant right below our dorm which is where we normally eat. There’s always a wide variety of food there, ranging from a cheeseburger to sushi. They have different stuff all the time, including Mexican food, particularly tacos.

Dan loves tacos. A lot. But JO’s (the restaurant) has only ever had tacos one time. It just so happens that the one time that JO’s had tacos that Dan was out of town (he lives about 2 hours away in Jacksonville, Florida, so about once every 10 weeks he’ll go home for 2 or 3 days). We thought it was so incredibly ironic that after Dan talked about tacos for such a long time that the one time they had tacos he wasn’t around. We called him that day and told him and he couldn’t believe it.

Fast-forward to a few days ago. Dan was telling us about how he was planning on heading to Jacksonville for the weekend. I told him right then, “Dan, you know that if you leave, we’ll have tacos.” Dan laughed and said that it would probably happen.

Yesterday Dan left. Tonight we had tacos. Seriously. Alex took a photo of the meal and texted it to Dan. No response. I’m betting he’s in total disbelief.

When Dan gets back on Sunday we’re going to go to Taco Bell to comfort him.

Cue Simon and Garfunkel, please.

Well, that’s it. I’m finished. As I type this, I’m sitting in my old office chair in the office of my house. Being home feels amazing, and while I love SCAD to death and wouldn’t mind being with my friends at school again, it’s nice to finally chill out and take a break.

Projects, projects, projects. For my final in Advanced Computer Art Applications, we had to create a web site and incorporate Flash in some way. I figured now would be a perfect time to finish the domain I purchased 9 months ago, StephenGeorg.com. So I did! The domain isn’t up at the moment since I’m having some problems with my server (Dreamhost is on this, no worries), but you can view the same site at my backup located here.

For Drawing 2 we had to do this. Not really much to say about that.

And for Speech I gave a critique of Crooked A’s. She thought the speech was great and gave me a 96, which ended up being the highest score I had gotten in the class so far.

I’m unsure of my grades, but I’m pretty sure I wound up with an A and two B’s. I should know within the next few days, hopefully.

Last update I mentioned wanting to buy Fallout 3… so I did. I think I put in about 12 hours or so on it, but I haven’t played it in about a week or so. Dan borrowed it and put in about 15 hours in two days or so—he actually gave it back to me at one point but then re-borrowed it again later that night. He’s addicted, so I’m assuming by this point he’s probably purchased the game. Even Alex bought the game, and he beat it around the 45 hour mark, just in time for him to go pick up the new WoW expansion. Crazy addict.

We’ve also started on the Fobbies are Borange comic. So far a team of four artists have been assembled and are currently working toward the ultimate goal of recreating the entire series in comic format. It’s a massive undertaking—I’m suspecting that it will take a few years, honestly. One page down. Thousands to go.

My schedule before I left school got a little off track. Alex and myself (who decided to take the same classes this quarter) finished our finals on Monday night, even though we couldn’t leave until Thursday afternoon. Tuesday night, in a fit of awesome (or stupid), we decided (along with Taylor) to stay up all night. That Wednesday morning we went to breakfast (one of the only times we got breakfast that quarter) then off to our 11 am class where we presented our websites. We got back around 2pm and I slept from then till about 4pm. So for those keeping track, I woke up Tuesday at 9:45am and it is now 4pm on Wednesday, with 2 hours of sleep. Anyway, at 5pm we had speech class, so we went to that then came back later. By 8pm I was about dead, so I lied down again, waking up at 10pm. When I woke up I got on Skype to talk to Mal a bit. Time passed quick—suddenly it was 11:52pm and I realized I had missed my opportunity to get some food at the last place on campus to close (the sub shop closes at midnight). ‘Crap’, I thought. Eventually, about 1:30am or so, Alex awoke as well. His car was having problems, Ian needed something printed, and I was starving. So we decided to take a trip to Kinkos/WalMart at 2am.

It was freezing, good lord. It was about 27 °F, which is unbearably cold to a southern boy. (Really, you can’t comprehend the pain that winter weather causes me). Ian used his magical French powers to get the car working again and we headed off to Kinkos.

The problem with Alex’s car was this: apparently his fan was continuing to run when he shut off his car, which killed his battery. Ian jumped his car and took out the fan plug. When we got to Kinkos (about 20 minutes away), Alex kept driving around to continue to recharge the battery. As we left, though, Ian looked up and saw that the temperature gauge was right on H, so he jumped out of the car and quickly put the fan plug back in. The car cooled down and everyone cheered.

Anyway. When we got to WalMart, Dan and myself headed for Subway (open 24 hours!) while Taylor, Alex and Ian went to buy some crap. The lady ahead of Dan and me was taking forever (and not just because there’s only one person working at 2:30am). Apparently she was getting subs for more than just herself: she had a list of 8 subs or so. By the time she had finished, the rest of our group was back and waiting for us. We finally got our subs and left. When we got back to the dorm it was about 3:30am. By the time I went to bed that night it was 4:45am, leaving me with 5 hours of sleep.

Quick recap: woke up Tuesday morning at 9:45am. It is now Thursday morning, 9:45am. I’ve had two 2 hour naps and a 5 hour sleep session. So in 48 hours I’ve slept 9. Not bad, not bad.

Thursday is the day I’m supposed to be finishing up, so I get back from my last class of the year then get started on packing up all of my stuff. My parents and myself don’t leave out until about 7:30pm or so, and embark on the long journey home. I’d say I slept about an hour in the car. When we got back home it was 12:30am. Being the person I am, I got sidetracked and got on Skype. To make a long story short, I went to bed at 8am. So let’s recap:

• Wake up Tuesday 9:45am
• Slept Wednesday 2pm
• Woke up Wednesday 4pm (2 hours)
• Slept Wednesday 8pm
• Woke up Wednesday 10pm (4 hours)
• Slept Thursday 4:45am
• Woke up Thursday 9:45am (9 hours)
• Got an hour of sleep on the road (10 hours)
• Slept Friday 8am

I was up for over 70 hours with 10 hours of sleep. Hmm. I should really not do that. Ever. Ever. Again.

My sleep schedule is all off wack again because of this. I went to bed last night at 11am and woke up today at 6:30pm. I plan on getting this fixed tonight by going to bed around 11pm or so. Unfortunately that means I will have only been up for 4½ hours before I head off to bed, so I may not be able to fall asleep. Oh well, we’ll hope for the best.

To wrap all of this up, I’ll mention again my trip to Wisconsin coming up on December 21st. It’s crazy to think it’s only 29 days away. I’m sure I’ll have all sorts of pictures to post here, so keep on the lookout :)

(and ps: hire me to do stuff since I need money D:)

Haven’t updated in about a week, so I guess I should take the time to update folks on what’s going on. Let me go grab Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler.

Let’s see, what’s happened recently that’s really important… oh yeah, that presidential thing. Obama beat out McCain in electoral votes badly. But seriously… did people actually suspect McCain was going to win? I called this a month or so before it happened. I never doubted once that Obama would lose, I knew he had the support of a majority of the country. Personally, I absolutely hate (read: hate) politics and prefer not to get involved, and I would’ve stayed out of it if it wasn’t for a new underlying, unspoken rule. If you don’t vote, there are some people that straight-up hate you. Really! I can’t quite understand the logic here—I know it’s a ‘privilege’, an ‘honor’, and that I should exercise my right to vote, but what if I just don’t want to? Oh, I know I could take the time to find out about the candidates, but I just don’t care. I don’t think that makes me selfish, I just choose to be uninformed because when it’s all said and done I can stand back and continue to not care like I did in the first place. That doesn’t make me stupid, irresponsible or any other word synonymous with ‘careless’ or ‘dumb’. It’s my choice, darn it. But this election employed the ‘if you don’t vote, some of your friends will hate you’ rule. Bullcrap.

So, I registered to vote. Barely. I dropped it in the mailbox at 3pm the day it was due. I figured ‘you know, if I don’t get it in time, so be it’. But it came, and I had registered to vote. Since my roommate Alex had pressured me into it thus far, I decided I would even bother to watch the debates and read up on issues. I didn’t do this very often, but since he was watching, I had to anyway. My mindset was still mostly ‘I don’t care’, but I did come to some conclusions, not really enough to pull me strongly in either direction. When November 4th rolled around, I voted regardless, if only to be able to tell ‘those people’ that I voted. The people that would hate me if I didn’t. Hey, you people! You suck! Stop forcing me to care!

So yeah, I voted. At least when people ask I can be like ‘yeah, I voted’. If they ask who I voted for I just tell them it’s none of their business. The wise ones leave me alone after that.

Aside from the political crap (you have no idea how thankful I am that I can turn on the TV without hearing ‘socialism’ or ‘90% of the time’), everything has been going pretty great. School is finally winding down (I’ll be heading home this time 2 weeks from now, and won’t be back till January 5th), and soon I’ll be with Mal again. School hasn’t actually given me all that much trouble this quarter, except maybe the Maya project (no grade yet, but I’m expecting a big fat C- on that one). I showed my animation on Monday, though (a few posts down from this one) and it was met with overall positive responses (and one ‘awww’ from some girl who apparently liked Yoshi). We started to do gesture sketches the other day (drawing naked folks, for the uninformed) and I think I did alright, which is odd since I’ve never been able to really accurately draw a human body. Apparently the only thing I’ve ever really had a problem with was clothes, because once they come off I’m a drawing machine. Sort of. I’m also really comfortable around naked folks (and also being naked myself… but that’s another story), so no odd experiences here, expect maybe for the one male model who was like, “any requests? Need a particular pose? How about the Guitar Hero?” then proceeded to act like he was playing a guitar. Amidst my giggling like a schoolgirl at the video game reference, I accurately depicted his penis. Ah, the wonders of art school.

Speaking of video games, I’d be a complete liar if I didn’t say I wanted to say some things, so I will. Fallout 3. Good lord, it looks so fun. Looks. I chose not to buy it yet (Alex is already 40 hours into the game) since I was concerned that if I did, schoolwork wouldn’t get done. Well, that was definitely a good decision since last weekend was madness in terms of workload. But this weekend, however, the load is much, much lighter. It definitely makes me want to buy the game. Mallory has advised against it, saying that while this weekend may be easy, I might be screwed next week, and I’m already so darn close to the end. I know this, but maaaaan do I want to play it! I’m still on Chapter 4 of Mother 3, too, so maybe I’ll do the game a great justice by choosing it over Fallout.

Another random tidbit: apparently I’ve been being a good, responsible adult with my credit, since they recently raised my credit limit. Score! Now to go out and buy a new TV!

…that was a joke.

Dan recently came into the good fortune of an xbox 360 as well (for a super awesome cheapo price). Speaking of which, I decided that for my persuasive speech, I’d talk about how much better the xbox 360 is than the PlayStation 3. I started doing research and realized that I had to completely go against everything I believed… the PlayStation 3 is a better long-term investment than the xbox 360. There, I said it. And it’s true! Right this second, the games on 360 seem like gifts from the gods. However, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, illuminated by the PlayStation 3. And while I don’t know how long it will take to get to the end of that tunnel, I know that the winner of the console war is the PS3. And I don’t have one :(

That’s it for now. I’m just waiting for the school year to end, so I can continue to wait for December 21st. I’ll be with Mal again in 45 days, and I can’t wait. And I’ll be out of here in 14! Woohoo!

The end of 5 weeks means the halfway mark for school, and I half to admit, I never could’ve imagined it moving quite so fast. Seems like just yesterday we were moving into the dorms again and suddenly that’s 5 weeks ago. With any luck these next 5 weeks will pass just as quickly, as I’m anxious to get out of here already.

Currently on my plate I’ve got a 3D project in Maya due on Monday, and I also have to give a manuscript speech for Public Speaking class. I’ve already made a bit of headway on the 3D project (but not a whole lot), and I plan to try and finish it up tomorrow (it’s simply 3D day—all day).

So: 5 weeks till the end of school, 64 days till Mallory. One good thing after another, eh?

The other thing that I absolutely must mention is the MOTHER 3 fan translation which was released today (well it’s technically Saturday now, but it was released on Friday). So far I’ve played through the first chapter (I think Mal is somewhere on chapter four) and it’s incredible. Great job, translation team! If you haven’t had a chance to download the English patch, head on over to Starmen.net.

And that’s about it for now. Don’t worry, if something interesting happens then I’ll let you know.

and back in black (weedly weedly weedly)

*ahem* Anyway,

So it’s been quite a while since I actually posted anything worthwhile. I figure now would be a perfect time to do so, as I sit here waiting for a video file to finish exporting (ah the wonderful world of Compressor and the 2 hour waits…)

Seeing as how my last real blog post was back at the end of July, I guess I should catch folks up on what’s been going on. In August, Mallory came to visit. She was there for 9 days, and it was great. She’s told me countless times it was easily the best days of her life, and I have to say, definitely mine too. She finally got to see the beach! (Well, the real beach—she had been to the shores of Maine, but hey, if the ocean isn’t warm then it doesn’t count. Trust me, I know. I’m southern.)

I should probably talk about her visit, and I will to some degree, but I admit that pictures speak louder than words. To summarize the best I can, we did absolutely everything there is to do in Myrtle Beach (or at least all the great stuff). We did more in 9 days than most families / people on vacation do in 2 whole weeks. Just a few of the awesome things we did:

• Beach! (hey this was a big deal, and we did it a few times)
• Saw the area (just driving around is a lot of fun, and there’s a lot to see)
• Food (Southern food! Well, not so much, but places she’s never eaten before)
• Shopping (Barefoot Landing, Broadway, Market Commons—although we bought almost nothing)
• Carolina Opry
• Dixie Stampede
• Hardrock Park (Bear… Metal… FAMILY! Go Speedboy! Oh wait, they’re bankrupt now…)
• Quad Date (Justin, Jarrett, and John as well as their fiancees/girlfriends)
• Kite (I had not previously flown one)
• Spa (Mallory had a day at the spa! There’s some pictures of this.)
• Meeting friends (Mallory was able to meet a plethora of my friends, including John Goudelock and some of the folks from my church)
• Video Games (haha, as if it wasn’t apparent enough, when two geeks get together, there will inevitably be some game playing)

There were some other things too, but that’s a majority. Since she visited me last, it’s my turn to see her next, and I’ve already got my ticket. I’ll be spending Christmas (and New Year’s!) with her, particularly from December 21 to January 1. She’s the best Christmas present I could ask for, so I’m incredibly excited! I mean, there’s the whole “I’m going to have to meet every member of her family on both sides” thing, but hey, there can’t be too many crazy people, right? I doubt I’ll get more than two “YOU BETTER NOT TRY NUTHIN”s from family members. I look forward to the whole bunch!

Aside from Mallory and that end of the spectrum (by the way, we’ve been together for 7 months already :D), other things have been going on as well. A good example being that I’m now back in school. Hurray! Actually, I’m done with 3 (almost 4) of my ten week quarter. Yeah, time passes pretty quickly.

This quarter in school I’m taking Advanced Computer Art Applications, Speech and Public Speaking, and Drawing 2. I’ve had plenty of time already to feel out the professors and sort of judge how difficult the quarter will be, and I have to say, I feel like I got lucky. I picked ‘easy’ professors on purpose, but I didn’t get the Speech professor I had picked (got an email saying I was switched to another class). As it turns out, though, it was quite a good switch.

Computer Art (CMPA) is a great class—it might just be the fact I love sitting for hours in front of a screen anyway, who knows. We have to go through 5 applications (Illustrator, Photoshop, Maya, After Effects, Flash—in that order) and we’ve just finished Photoshop. Dan took the same class with the same professor last year and said it was pretty simple, so I can’t say I’m too worried. Dan must’ve liked him, as he’s taking him again this quarter for After Effects class. For the Illustrator class we had to create a logo, and for Photoshop we had to make a collage. We haven’t gotten any grades back (nor have they been posted online), but I’m assuming we did pretty good. Both of my projects have been positively received.

Drawing 2 isn’t so bad either. I mean, yeah, drawing totally sucks, but our professor doesn’t grade us too harshly. And that’s good, because drawing is definitely not one of my strong points. I got a 84 on the first drawing project, and then an additional 2 points after making some corrections (she allows us to take her advice then redo some things) for a total of 86. Better than the C’s I was getting in Harmon’s class back in Drawing 1.

Speech and Public Speaking initally worried me a bit, not because I have a problem speaking in front of people, but simply because I hate doing it. I’m not a shy person, but I prefer to keep quiet, and speech class is definitely going to take you out of that comfort zone. As it turns out though, our professor is fairly awesome, and grades very easily. I did my first informative speech on MOTHER 3 and got a 98, so I’m fairly certain I could choose any subject and I’d be a-ok.

Besides schoolwork, we spend our time eating, sleeping and playing video games. My sleep schedule actually hasn’t been too horribly bad. I normally get 6 or 7 hours every night and only on the weekends do I do my ridiculous ‘go to bed at 9am’ thing, and even then it’s not all the time. We’re also located in Oglethorp House, which puts us right above JO’s, which happens to be the best SCAD dining facility, so we’re being well fed all of the time (I still had to tighten my belt after the first two weeks though, hm…).

As far as gaming goes, I personally haven’t been playing much of anything, but other folk have been playing a good bit of Brawl, GTA 4, Dead Rising, Halo 3, and even a bit of Crazy Taxi (well, at least for a few minutes one afternoon). Ian and Taylor alternate playing Call of Duty 4 on xbox live, too. I have Animal Crossing sitting in my DS in front of me, but I seldom remember to pick it up, unfortunately. Every once in a while I remember to play on Saturdays, other than that, usually not.

Another big thing: since I last wrote, Fobbies are Borange actually ended. Yep, after 42 episodes (and a crazy number of other songs and ridiculous stuff), the series is finally over. It was met with predominantly positive feedback all throughout its history, and under Jon Kay’s influential design hand, there should be some sort of FaB apparel showing its ugly head in the Fangamer Store in the near future. Loids are not Christmas (LanC) is the spiritual successor to FaB (even though it started before the end of FaB), and deals with the first Mother game. It’s also completely unscripted and usually does pretty well bringing about a large amount of comedy. I play the role of Ninten, and due to the attention and appreciation he’s been shown, I’m going to do another small series after LanC ends (the last episode should be this Saturday) where Ninten simply talks about issues. I’ll probably keep them under 3 minutes and they will probably still show up on Ben’s radio show (now on Saturday nights at 7pm EST instead of the old Friday night at 11pm).

Another new thing in the pipeline is “30 Minutes”, a half-hour show that Dan and myself have been doing on The Camel for the past two weeks. It started out as Dan just suggesting that we have our own Ustream show, but we never actually prepared at all. That’s more or less been the theme, and we’ve rated our own show about 1 to 2 out of 10 stars. We admit it’s pretty horrible, and don’t necessarily plan to plan—but you might enjoy it anyway. That link above has the recorded episodes on the page, so check it out when you get a chance. Who knows, you might actually laugh. Once.

And with all of that out of the way, I think you (whoever you are) are finally caught up with everything that’s going on. Almost 4 weeks of this quarter are over, leaving only 6 more. When I get back from school I’ll have about a month or so before I see Mal (75 days from today), which is what I’m most looking forward to this holiday season. I’ll try and do better about keeping this thing updated (and hopefully by updating more frequently I will eliminate the need to write ridiculously long posts) in the near future.