As of yesterday, I officially resigned from a project I've been working on for over four years.
It was a warcraft game (or "map") that I have been producing. The stress and intensity of managing a competitive game has become too much for me and I have dropped it. Hopefully, this means that I will have more time to spend with FFN.
6/26/09
6/24/09
Ummmmmmm...........
So, uhh... I found out about this yesterday:
My band director quit.
Okay, to be fair, he quit to go get his masters. He's recently married and is moving in with his wife's parents. So it's all good for him. I can understand and accept that. Our program's going to suffer and I highly doubt our jazz program will be nearly as good, but... things happen, I guess. Have to move on.
What really makes me mad is apparently I'm one of the last few to find out about this. Nobody told me. Everyone else knew. And I'm a section leader. Was a section leader for last year. I'm by far the most dedicated member of the band and I'm the only one to make the all-state bands. It gets a little frustrating when I'm overlooked after all the work I've put into the program.
And what really sucks for me is: I don't have a band class first semester. I'm taking an AP course that hogs up all my space. So, not only does that mean that I might not get to know the new director, it may also make being in marching band very difficult. With our old director, we could find a way to work things out, but with this new one, things are going to be rough. I'm just hoping at this point that I'll still be able to hold my position (not like there's anyone else to do it) and stay in the band.
I hope that the new director does All-state Jazz and All-state orchestra. If he doesn't... there goes everything I've worked for. No scholarships, no beating Mr. Rich Kid (and his eight companions) for principal trumpet, and no making a name for myself in the jazz industry.
I'm just hoping that this will all work out.
My band director quit.
Okay, to be fair, he quit to go get his masters. He's recently married and is moving in with his wife's parents. So it's all good for him. I can understand and accept that. Our program's going to suffer and I highly doubt our jazz program will be nearly as good, but... things happen, I guess. Have to move on.
What really makes me mad is apparently I'm one of the last few to find out about this. Nobody told me. Everyone else knew. And I'm a section leader. Was a section leader for last year. I'm by far the most dedicated member of the band and I'm the only one to make the all-state bands. It gets a little frustrating when I'm overlooked after all the work I've put into the program.
And what really sucks for me is: I don't have a band class first semester. I'm taking an AP course that hogs up all my space. So, not only does that mean that I might not get to know the new director, it may also make being in marching band very difficult. With our old director, we could find a way to work things out, but with this new one, things are going to be rough. I'm just hoping at this point that I'll still be able to hold my position (not like there's anyone else to do it) and stay in the band.
I hope that the new director does All-state Jazz and All-state orchestra. If he doesn't... there goes everything I've worked for. No scholarships, no beating Mr. Rich Kid (and his eight companions) for principal trumpet, and no making a name for myself in the jazz industry.
I'm just hoping that this will all work out.
6/23/09
6/13/09
Surgery soon
I have to have my wisdom teeth cut out on Monday. Wish me luck!
...and hope I don't die. ./kidding
They're going to give me IV sedation and have given me a valium to take before surgery... and there will be pain meds afterwards. I must admit that I don't like the concept of being drugged out of my mind (since those kinds of things scare me quite a bit), but my sister says that they'll "drug me up so good I won't even care."
I've had people telling me how horrible it's going to be for the past few years, but to be honest, I don't think it'll be nearly as bad. My sister had hers removed at the age of twelve and went to softball camp the next day, and she can't even get a tooth filled without hyperventilating.
Oh, and the aftermath? Two to three days of doing nothing but watching movies and eating macaroni. I have all of the Lord of the Rings movies rented and plan to watch them during the recovery. I only hope that I will be able to remember them afterwards!
PS: as I type this post, I'm working on programming a few new systems for my current Warcraft project (500 lines of code on JASSCraft in around an hour, yay!). As soon as I get done with that, I'll be starting with a quickwrite (in the Lord of the Rings fandom) to relieve stress and get my writing unhung from Echoes and Redemption. Nothing's changed since the last update on those stories.
...and hope I don't die. ./kidding
They're going to give me IV sedation and have given me a valium to take before surgery... and there will be pain meds afterwards. I must admit that I don't like the concept of being drugged out of my mind (since those kinds of things scare me quite a bit), but my sister says that they'll "drug me up so good I won't even care."
I've had people telling me how horrible it's going to be for the past few years, but to be honest, I don't think it'll be nearly as bad. My sister had hers removed at the age of twelve and went to softball camp the next day, and she can't even get a tooth filled without hyperventilating.
Oh, and the aftermath? Two to three days of doing nothing but watching movies and eating macaroni. I have all of the Lord of the Rings movies rented and plan to watch them during the recovery. I only hope that I will be able to remember them afterwards!
PS: as I type this post, I'm working on programming a few new systems for my current Warcraft project (500 lines of code on JASSCraft in around an hour, yay!). As soon as I get done with that, I'll be starting with a quickwrite (in the Lord of the Rings fandom) to relieve stress and get my writing unhung from Echoes and Redemption. Nothing's changed since the last update on those stories.
6/10/09
Updateish
Okay, I know that everyone and their grandma out there is like "Y R ECHOES TAKE SO LONGUE???." The issue isn't that I'm not working on, the issue is that this is a very long and difficult chapter to write and that it's starting to frustrate me a bit because I can't get thinks to happen the way I want them to. It's a side effect of me having some major issues in the beginning of the fic.
Right now, I need something that I can do to take my mind off of Echoes and Redemption, maybe another oneshot... problem is, I don't really have an ideas.
Right now, I need something that I can do to take my mind off of Echoes and Redemption, maybe another oneshot... problem is, I don't really have an ideas.
6/6/09
SCHOOL IS FINISH! And I'm now mired in another fandom.
School's over. Made A's (prolly 100's) on all my exams. Yay.
Somehow, in all of the LotR stuff I've been doing in class, I've managed to get caught in the Lord of the Rings fandom. I actually have an idea for a fic over in that section that I'll get to... sometime. Believe it or not, it was actually inspired by a class clown's comment during one of the movie scenes.
But in the meantime, around 9 pages of Echoes is finished, but I don't really... like it that much. O.o
Somehow, in all of the LotR stuff I've been doing in class, I've managed to get caught in the Lord of the Rings fandom. I actually have an idea for a fic over in that section that I'll get to... sometime. Believe it or not, it was actually inspired by a class clown's comment during one of the movie scenes.
But in the meantime, around 9 pages of Echoes is finished, but I don't really... like it that much. O.o
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