Thursday, April 2, 2009

No more foolin around...

Spring break was a bust. Nowhere near as productive as I had intended it to be. Essentially ended up back at home playing computer games all night. Finished Supreme Commander and a substantial portion of the GDI campaign in Command & Conquer 3. Can't speak highly enough about Supreme Commander as an RTS game. Spent a lot of time with the family. Missed out on a blizzard that overtook Boulder. Did get some anatomy studying in. Didn't get anything else done. Ended break with an all nighter at a videogame tournament that also cohosted an anime convention. First time seeing so many people cosplay in person. Weird. Played a lot of Street Fighter 4. My Chun Li's an amateur.

Watched The Wrestler. Loved it. Tragic protagonist. Macho sport. Marissa Tomei as a stripper. I'll have to pick it up on DVD when it comes out.

Just watched JCVD. Loved it. Jean Claude Van Damme's best acting film (not that that's saying anything.) A meta film. Incredibly intimate. Makes you wonder how much of the film is him acting and him being himself. Perhaps a bit of both. Perhaps that's why he's so amazing in the film.

Boa released an American English album. It's limited in terms of its availability but its apparently at some best buys and definitely on Amazon.com. It's the first Boa album I've listened to in a while and it's actually rather good. I think the music can compete with a lot of the other pop r&b stuff that other American artists put out, if only the exposure was there.

April is packed. Nate's coming to visit which is great but unfortunately he comes at an inopportune time. Means I'll be trying to divide my time between Boulder and Colorado Springs most likely. Last month of school. I've got three lab practicals. Three essays. Actually most of my classes don't have finals, so instead of all my final exams coming in May, everything instead falls during this month. I've got like four concerts I'm going to which I'm also excited for. I've got to figure out what I'm doing after college. Possibly find a place to live, otherwise I'm heading back to Colorado Springs to move back home, which I'm not excited for. If I can find a full time job or an internship I'd have more reason to stay but neither opportunities are present at the moment. And at the end of the month, there's talk of a kickboxing "smoker," so somewhere in all that mess I have to find time to train for my first amateur fight.

Most of the time I'm just tired. I'd rather be sleeping but I guess I don't have much of a choice. I have an incredibly busy month full of work and play. I should be more grateful. Either way, no more fooling around...