Ugh, you can only start so many journal entries with "Man, it's been a long time since I posted."

I got back 2 weeks ago from a lovely trip with Alexis. She has posted some awesome pictures in her journal.

More updates to come - gotta make it to work on time!

it has definitely been forever since i updated my journal. a weird couple of months. it's also tough when i lose touch with the community here and see more and more grey in my friends list. ah well, sometimes it's just nice to write if only to yourself.

the kitten that i found on the side of the road as of last post has turned into an amazingly healthy cat. i have never been much of a cat person as they make me sneeze a lot, but i have a warm spot in my heart for Bruce. i also probably still like him because he doesn't live at my place, but rather a friends. cats are like kids are like monkeys - lots of fun, but when you're done having fun with them it's nice to give them to someone else to clean up.

i joined two bands. one is crazy tech grind stuff, the other is sleazy rock n' roll. Both are fun for different reasons - the techgrind one has been busting my ass to get the bass skills back up. keeps me honest about my playing.

I for some reason have been thinking a lot about what I would tell me kids if they ask me how the world works. Like gravity or screw drivers or atoms. Not that I am even pining for kids or wishing for a family - just keeps popping into my mind. This paragraph was randomly brought to you by "capitalization". Back to lower case.

anyway, that's about it. band stuff, work....i started a new film project but blah that's boring stuff. i'm way pumped to see lion the witch and the wardrobe on friday. those christians know their allegory, i tell you what.

oh and also since i last wrote i read and watched the first 4 harry potter stories. i can now add +1 to my nerd status.

well now that i remember i'm trying to teach hipsters D&D, let's up that by 2.

Psh, so Alexis came down and hung out for the weekend. No big whoop. I hang out with SG's all the time. It's just how I roll. I didn't even think it would be worth mentioning. Whateva.

Ha ha, JK ROFL!!!11

No, in all seriousness, the lovely Alexis came down and paid me a visit for the weekend. It was SUPPOSED to be a long weekend, but thanks to the double team action of mother nature and Independence Air, she spent that first night in a hotel room in Washington DC. No matter, it just made us step up our game so that we used our remaining days more effectively. It's very strange to hang out with a female version of one's self, but that's not to say it wasn't great. A lot of late night talks about life and nerdiness. We saw the Devil's Rejects, which was sooooo good. We also played Area 51 for 20 minutes and OWNED it.

The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing. Fuck sight seeing. Seriously. It's very rare you can have a friend that enjoys going through all of the DVD's in Best Buy and checking for good deals (ONE of us brought a list, who I won't mention their name. The other one was ranking the different Star Treks, so you guess who's nerdier). Apparently according to everyone else we also spent the weekend having sex, but that was news to me. I won't swear it didn't happen cause I can't keep track of myself while I'm sleeping, but I woke up every morning with my underwear facing the right direction, so there's that.

I also got to introduce her to the kitty, BRUCE. I was driving to work on Tuesday along this busy road and saw something in the middle of the road that looked like a garbage bag. As I got closer I realized that it was a little puffball of a kitten. After some C.Hi.P.'s style car maneuvers, I pulled off the road and grabbed it. Here he is right after I found him:

My friend Carmen took him, cleaned him up, fed him, and now he's been making quite a name for himself living at her place. For some reason it makes girls' voices go really high pitched.

life continues in the dirty south. work is smashingly fun, living is a great time - i'm enjoying all the kids i've met down here, even if they do make me feel old.

it's disappointing to be let down by friends, even more so when a lot of them do it at the same time. i'm always initially pissed, but i don't really know what i'm expecting of them. i mean i could list a ton of times in which i was shady or let someone else down, so it's not really fair to hold everyone else to some godlike standards. however, when you are restoring your faith in someone, it's always annoying to have it knocked back down a few pegs. maybe not annoying, just sad.

it occurs to me that having a profile pic of me with no shirt on is both vain and retarded looking - not to mention the fact that the picture is like 2 years old. one of these days i should get more motivation to care about my online profiles.

April 3rd was my last entry, eh? Man, what a month and a half it's been. I still don't have internet at my apartment, which makes it tougher to update (or check out suicide girls, as i work for a christian charity) - i have been really enjoying myself, though. my job is sweet and laid back, i have been meeting a decent amount of kids down here that all seem really nice. all the kids are college/high school age, though, so that's very weird being such an old fogey all of a sudden.

So yes, I'm down in Columbia. I don't have much more time to write in this, but by all means drop me a line and I can fill you guys in on more details.

so i just found out that i got a job in columbia, sc. it should be a good time - doing a bunch of different multimedia stuff for a small charity down there. pay is a lot better, not to mention that it's actually something that i went to school for and enjoy doing, as opposed to the mailroom that i have been working in for the passed year and a half.

downsides, however, involve picking up my life and moving it 9 hours south - good old republican south. so anyway, i've been doing my best to keep my head about all of this stuff as i get ready to move down on such short notice. it seems like every day i have a laundry list of things i need to do, people i need to call, bills i need to pay, in order for me to close up my life in pittsburgh and get it down to columbia.

so there we go, by may 1st i'll be moved down there 100%. wish me luck!

I should really update this. I am an anti-social jerk and it extends even to my blogging. Apparently people read this to keep themselves occupied though, so I do my best to oblige.

This weekend was totally sweet. I hit up the science center, something that hasn't been done in like 10 years. There's this thing with a big wall, and really bright light flashes, burning your shadow onto the wall temporarily. Anyway, the funniest joke when I was a kid was to turn your head down, so that when it flashes, it looks like you have no head. Example:

Caption - Jamie: "Where's your head?" Michelle: "mmmph mmmph"

Anyway, I woke up on Sunday and got vegan all you can eat buffet. Not only was that the sweetest thing ever, but since we stayed till the end, they gave us styrofoam containers and told us to take whatever we wanted home. Oh man did I eat a crap load of cake today.

Anyway, the movie is still coming along. If you are around the Pittsburgh area and have: 1.) A cabin or trailer out in the woods, preferably with power or 2.) an office environment (hallways, offices, cubicles) that you wouldn't care if a couple guys hung out, filmed, used fake guns, maybe shot some fake blood around (I promise to clean up), then by all means let me know. I'll make you an executive producer or something.

Band is going along, trying to get our CD put out ourselves. Blah blah blah, same old story. I'll post shows as they come along.

Well, that's all I have to say for now - let me know how everyone's doing

Man, it's always those times at 4 in the morning, when you can't sleep or type anymore, that updating the journal seems like such a good idea. Here's some points from the passed month:
- I got hired to do a presentation video for this group that works for a pharmaceutical company that had to give a presentation at a national competition. they won for best presentation.

- i took the money i made from that and bought a laptop. it was a little more expensive than i wanted to spend, but i figured i'd use my tax return to help me out too...

- i did my taxes and found out i actually OWE $258. fuck.

- i broke up with my girlfriend. i made her feel really bad.

- i got the staples out of my head. i'm giving up cancer for lent.

- i've decided i'm making a movie. as of now i am about 5/6 done with the first draft of the script. i'll hopefully start shooting in about a month or two. if anyone likes acting for free, or has places i can shoot for free, or just likes being part of a film "crew" (a loose term) for free, please let me know.

"hey, what's up, i'm your doctor. yeah, it's pretty important that we remove the cancer from the back of your head. why you ask? well, you see, it's pretty unsightly looking, and we wouldn't want you to be embarassed by having people point and laugh at it. ok, so we've removed it, here's what you'll be wearing on your head for the next 10 days:"



Yeah, it looks like a yamika (sp?) with a marshmellow hidden under it. Thanks a lot, doc.

UPDATE - staples come out tomorrow! i have abandoned my yamika days ago - i'm living dangerously and sacriligeously.

Hey everybody, I get my cancer removed tomorrow, wish me luck!