Current Thought: I'm so glad my first class is in a computer lab...
Well, what an eventful two months it has been. Of course, I suppose any two months without a blog entry would be rather eventful, even if one were to live in a cave. ("Today a tarantula crawled into the fire and exploded. Most exciting thing that's happened in two months.") But anyway, in the interest of "Show, Don't Tell," I'll stop saying how eventful it's been and start saying why it's been eventful.
First and foremost, I am no longer working at the Popcorn Capitol of Hades. This has it's benefits-- I don't come home at 1 a.m. smelling like popcorn, with the angry complaints of customers stuck in my head. Unfortunately, the downsides (i.e. having no money) are considerable as well. However, I needn't worry about such things, as I now have the Coolest Job In the World. (Yes, I notice the Sudden Fixation With Capital Letters.) In case you're wondering what said Job is, it involves being a writing consultant at the college writing center. This is so cool because, as you can see below, I really, really like writing. Really. And now I'm getting paid $6.25 per hour to do it. Or rather, to help other people do it, which is possibly even cooler. So yeah. Coolest Job In the World.
The second really important and awesome announcement is that I got a Fender Strat. You may notice a sudden contradiction between what I wrote in the above paragraph and what I'm writing now. How, you may ask, can one be a jobless, penniless college student, yet still afford to buy a Fender Strat, and a rather nice Japanese 1957 reissue with upgraded American parts, at that? Three words, my friend: My parents rock. Basically, they saw that I really really really wanted a Fender, and that I didn't even have enough money to buy a Squier (I shudder now to think I was actually considering the purchase of such a shoddy contraption), so Mom looked around town and found, at the very place where I bought my acoustic, a beautiful Arctic White Strat (with pearlescent pickboard, the major selling point for me) with hardshell case for $450. We bought the Strat three days after Christmas. For the next three months, my paycheck is going to my parents. But it's all worth it...
But here's the really cool part. Mom mentioned the new guitar to Larry A., Sam's dad, who is quite probably the best lead guitarist I know personally, Sam being a close second. And Larry said that when Sam's old Strat was stolen and they were shopping around for a new one (playing every Strat in town just to make sure they covered their options), Sam tried out my guitar, and it was his second choice, right behind the really awesome Fat Strat he got instead. So that made me feel even better, if at all possible, then I already did. So right now my beloved guitar is sitting on its stand, pristine and sparkling and white. (At least, it's sitting there unless the cat has knocked it over. Great, I'll be thinking about that all day now.) My calluses are itching. I wish I was playing it right now... ::starts to drool::
Erm, yes, anyway. Okay, now to summarize the rest of what has made recent months so cool... I've started driving; I'm starting the spring semester this very morning; I got lots of money for Christmas (which, of course, went toward the Strat); I've gone to a Christmas party and a New Year's party, both at Natalie's house; I've seen The Two Towers three times already; I've been reading some really cool books (Eamon Dunphy's Unforgettable Fire: The Definitive Biography of U2, Bulfinch's Mythology, and Salman Rushdie's Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 among them); I got to see my more musical friends play two gigs, and I'm going to another on Friday; I'm addicted to the demo of Age of Mythology (which I'll probably be buying with my birthday money, along with Age of Empires II); and I made the top Springfield Bible Quiz team. There's more stuff than that to make me happy, but I can't recall exactly what right now.
And on top of it all, So Cruel is curerntly playing on my CD. Life is goooooooooood. ::turns up CD player::
