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Hello people, today I went to the school store and got most of my books, however when I though I had basically all of them I came to realize later that I had only obtained half of them. Walking out of the store with 6 books for classes is plenty enough. My first semester of Freshman year I had six books and that's the most I've ever had in a semester. Today, I learned that I will require 13 books for this semester. In one fell swoop I learned that this semseter already blows. Maybe I'm spoiled and maybe I'm not but no body needs that many books in a semester.

I think I got some good inspiration today for my senior project while reading the short story of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I'm thinking about taking some aspects of the story and combining them for my own. I'll work on writing something about it tomorrow while I'm working in the lab.

I watched "About Schmidt" last night. Good film that was, it was. Yes sir, a fine film. Tomorrow, I shall be returning to editing my short film "Shards of a Woman." I'm thinking about tearing it a new ass hole and reworking the entire thing. That would mean rearranging some scenes and taking out some of the dialogue because a lot of it doesn't work. Time to disect that mofo and put it back together in a new order, it hopes to make it stronger, better, faster. I have the technology.

Alright people, I'm outie 5000.

Beware of the dude with the pink eye! Yeah, I think I got it. There's no better way then going back to school with pink eye. I'm treating it so don't worry everyone. There is no zombie invasion going on here. Brad, if you're reading this then you have found a Blog which is an online journal. Welcome.

Too many damn freshman this year. Our video/film/theater department can't handle all the new freshman in our major. Come spring time shit will hit the fan when they are going to be editing. Oh well, I'm outta there after this year anyway. It is hot as hell in my room right now, it's like walking into a brick wall, you just don't do it. What does that mean? It means shut up and don't think about shit. Just stay out of hot ass rooms. I Love the 70's is playing on my tv right now. That and I love the 80's are really addictive. Right now they are doing 1978 which I've already seen about 3 times yet I still keep it on. Okay, I'm sensing civil unrest. I'll change topics.

New Topic: I saw the Disney cartoon of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow today in my Film Adaptation course. I've never read the short story or watched the Disney cartoon before. My only exposure to the story was the Tim Burton film from a few years ago. The Disney version is nothing like the Tim Burton film. We are going to read the short story. Dr. Brown says the Disney cartoon is very closely adapted from the short story. I was really surprised at how far the Burton film strayed from the story, they are two different animals. The Disney version was good, I enjoyed it. If you get the chance watch it. It's only like 30 minutes.

Okay, time to get something to eat. Peace out.

Howdy all, I just watched "Old School" with my friend Brian. Hilarious and it was the first time I saw it. I think I'm the last person under 30 to see it. What else, I played some basketball today. Made some great long distance shots. Neighbor Dori who goes to Goucher drove by and said hello. And you know what, a little compliment goes a long way as when she said I looked good. Ladies, little things like that are great. Just makes a guy feel good. And I and other guys should throw it back at ya. Roger, will do, over and out.

Tomorrow Brian and I are going to watch the directors cut of Stargate. A little sci-fi movie we both are fans of. It's one of those movies you see when you're young and you love it. Doesn't hold up so well anymore but it's still quality and has things that are still good. Ages 10-16, those are the best years for watching movies. Mainly sci-fi and action films because you'll buy into just about anything and not look into the flaws.

So tomorrow is Sunday, my last day of summer vacation. Back to school on Monday. Let's see what my schedule looks like for Monday. 12:00, Technology and Culture. Probably boring but it will probably have some interesting aspects. 12 o'clock is not bad at all for a class. I don't have to get up early for Mondays. Second class that day is at 5 and that is Film Adaptation which is an English Lit. course. It's basically about transforming novels into films. Atleast I think that's what it is about. I'm pretty sure about that. So, I've got classes all 5 days of the week but I don't have to get up early for any of them this semester which is good. Thank God, I don't have to get up early. However, I will have to set my work schedule in the lab which may end up having me come in early. I'll try my best to get later working shifts. That 12 o'clock class is my earliest of all classes. What sucks though is I have two night classes. Documentary theory and U.S. History since 1930 are both 7 PM courses Wednesday and Thursday, what a bore.

Ok, I'm stopping for now. Probably going to watch tv.

It's Friday! I didn't do anything today, just bummed around the house. Nice and relaxing. I watched "Punk Drunk Love" and it was very good. Watching it I feel happy for myself that I'm not messed up like Adam Sandler's character, Barry. That's one character with one messed up head. 7 sisters would drive me crazy too.

I've been scanning a bunch of pictures from the summer that I got developed the other day. Pictures from New Mexico and Philadelphia. They came out real good. I was fixing them up in photoshop as well, and I altered one into this cool swirling image that is now my desktop wallpaper.

Also, I got shirts in the mail from NFL Films and they gave me a dvd of "Inside the Vault: 1960-1970" It's a Lost Treasures special dvd of their never before seen NFL footage. There is some very good stuff on it. You can catch the Lost Treasures tv show on ESPN Classic. I worked on an episode of Lost Treasures over the summer when I was working at NFL Films. I'm still expecting another package with shirts from one of my bosses who said he would send me stuff.

So right now I'm bored so that's why I am typing this. Nothing else to say really. Maybe I'll do another post later. Bye for now.

It's thursday night as I am typing this. Went to a bbq at my cousins for his going away to college, UMBC that is. It had to be the most civilized meal this family has ever had. Although it's probably due to the fact that some of the family wasn't there like the Pines who are in North Carolina right now.

Right now I'm watching this new show on MTV that documents Jessica Simpson and Nick whatever his last name is. She is completely clueless. Her life is like that movie, Clueless. What a spoiled brat. He does all the work and she just acts ( act being not the proper word) dumb. I have to say though it's a good laugh.

Hmm what else. Oh I logged video today at school of footage I took at Ravens Training Camp. I'm going to try and do some stuff in Final Cut Pro that I haven't tried before. I hope it turns out well. I also rented Punch Drunk Love. I haven't seen it yet but I hear good things. I'll watch it tomorrow.

I'm real tired right now so I am going to go. Bye everyone.

Hey everyone I'm back with my second post. So anyway let me talk about today. I went to Cooper's Camera Mart in Valley Village on Reisterstown Rd. My friend Erin from school was working there today. I gave her 3 rolls of film to develop. I shot them all last week when I was still in New Jersey. That includes the roll that I shot while someone called the cops on me. Apparently people get suspicious when strangers are taking pictures of towers that hold gas in them. Who knew!? But everything turned out alright. I didn't get into any trouble, I just held off the rest of my shooting (film that is) for the next day. So I talked to Erin at Cooper's. Found out she is taking two classes this coming fall semester and then graduating in december. One of her classes is with me. That is Film Adaptation with Cathy Brown. I hope it is a good class. I hear Cathy Brown is good plus she is my friend Hobart's mother. He wanted to take that class but she wouldn't let him. Back to those rolls of film. I bet they are going to charge me up the ass for them. Getting anything developed at a camera store is expensive but they'll do a good job of it. Not like any other store like a supermarket or drug store where they give you back some real crap. Plus I'm getting them printed on matte paper instead of glossy because I hate glossy. It holds no artistic value at all.

After that I went to Terrye Grosshandlers house to help her out with her pc. She just got Norton Antivirus 2003 and wanted me to install it and do the updates. Did that, then I had to teach her how to use her scanner again. I did that about a year ago. Oh, she also gave me lunch. I'm always up for free food.

After that I just bummed around at home for the rest of the afternoon 3:30 onward. My day actually started early. For me that is. I woke up at 9:30. I haven't been able to sleep late all summer. I guess getting up early for work has got me in that mode. Also I didn't sleep well again. I woke up about 2 times this morning before getting out of bed at 9:30. That's been going on ever since after I finally met with Jaclyn. She's the girl I met online. That night we met I slept like a baby. All the other nights since then I've been sleeping terribly. I wake up multiple times and sometimes it takes forever to fall asleep. I'm sure she has something to do with it. Now that I've moved back home and she is still in Jersey and about to move back to school in NY it just makes things harder I guess. Knowing that I'll only speak to her online and on the phone. I never asked her but she didn't seem to be really interested in any serious relationship with me, but I was thinking about it with her. Obviously now I think it's pretty much a goner of an idea, being that we are now living so far apart. 5 hour drive between here and her school. Atleast I can still talk to her. I've come to accept this since last week anyway as soon as I knew we weren't going to get together again because she was busy with working and didn't seem to be able to get out of her night shifts.

On monday and tuesday I was shooting video at the Ravens training camp. There was the girl there working for Comcast Sportsnet, she had caught my eye since I had first saw her there the week before when I was working there with NFL Films. She was working there with a cameraman and I could tell she had to be either a PA or intern and most likely around my age. On Tuesday after the practice ended I finally went up to talk to her. Her name is Carolyn and she is an intern for Comcast Sportsnet and she goes to school at the UMD. So I just did some chatting with her and asked her if she knew a former instructor of mine from school who had worked there. But anyway I was a real idiot and didn't ask her for any contact information or anything. I really wish I had. She was really nice and definitely attractive. I really have the worst of luck with women.

Okay my wrists are getting tired so I'm going to go do something else. Hmm, I wish I was at that Radiohead concert tonight at Merriweather. I guess I'll have to ask my friend Rachel how it was since she is there. Bye everyone.

Hi, this is my frist ever blog so please bear in mind my newness to this. I've actually probably only ever read 4 or 5 blog posts before. I've never felt that writing an online journal was very interesting but here I am. I think I am doing this out of some subconscious feeling that someone really cool (female) will read what I am writing, like what I have to say and try to get in contact with me. Well I guess that isn't so much subconscious thinking anymore now is it? Excuse me while I open MS Word and do a spell check on subconscious.

Okay, I'm back. Apparently I forgot the "I" in subconscious. It is a tricky word to spell. Ever see that movie "As Good As it Gets?" Helen Hunt is writting a letter in the movie and she asks her mother how to spell "subconscious" because she wrote it as "subconscience." So yeah it is a tricky word.

Well that is all for the moment. Thanks to everyone for reading this. I'll probably be back within the hour to write something. Bye.