Moving?

You know when you were like 12 and all your friends had AIM but there was that one weird kid who had ICQ? I kind of feel like him, here at WordPress. I’m considering moving over to blogspot, mostly because you can upload video directly to it, which you can’t do here. This has it’s own advantages however (my stuff gets picked up almost instantaneously in Google searches, that little SNAP preview thing that comes up when you mouseover links) and I’m not ready to abandon it quite yet.

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In other news, I’ve been incredibly lazy lately. This is something that needs to stop NOW. I tried resetting my biological clock by pulling an all-nighter Tuesday/Wednesday but I still woke up at 11:30 today. I know for a fact my eyes opened around 6:50, but I opted for more sleep anyway. It’s too easy to roll over and go back to sleep when there’s no place and no one expecting your presence.

I grabbed NHL 09 yesterday and it is awesome as expected. The new Be-A-Pro mode is dangerously addictive. You make a version of yourself that you have to strengthen through gameplay and eventually get to the pros from the minor leagues. Pretty cool.

But yeah, playing the game and beating it is not going to get me anywhere fast. I need to self-discipline myself and use it either as a reward or something to do when footage in my reel (which I began work on today) timeline is rendering.

Time to get back to work.

Back in the saddle

My apologies for the hiatus. I’ve been quite busy at work lately. By the time I get home, I just don’t have the energy to write. My weekends have been rather filled as well, with weddings and concerts taking me away from business at hand.

Right now, I’m typing this from my girlfriend Katie’s place in Stratford, CT. This is the second time I’ve been here in a month’s time. I don’t hate Connecticut anymore. I used to despise it for being the place I got stuck in traffic on my way to Boston from Jersey. Now I’ve got a sunnier view of it, having met some wonderful people here (her family, mostly) and seeing where they live. I suppose you really can’t judge a place on its traffic problems. I still don’t have any interest in saying anything nice about L.A. or moving there though.

In terms of writing, I’m in kind of a funk right now. I can’t seem to stop backspacing over things. The perfectionist in me is taking over and killing paragraph after paragraph. So it’s kind of a perfect storm of being pre-occupied by other things, fatigue from doing those things, and obsessive-compulsiveness about doing this to the best of my ability.

I’m not sure I could work as a newspaper reporter or columnist. I think the deadlines would kill me. Too much stress, too much room for submitting subpar copy. I think I’d rather shoot video or photographs. I had my first experience as a sports photographer at a New England Revolution soccer game this past week, which you’ll see and hear more about in my next post.