Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Schedule, weight loss, etc.

Today is Wednesdays, and as it turns out, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, I don't have class until 10:40. It's 8:42 as I'm typing and I still have two hours left to enjoy morning.

Today is actually pretty busy. I have Theory, Astronomy, Alejandro (my last semester!!!!) and SCHOLA with barely any break for lunch.

Yesterday, I barely ate, and as a result, I lost four pounds. Now my effort is to keep that weight off.

I wake up to Fleet Foxes' "Sun It Rises", and I try to stop it before the "red squirrel" part ends and the actual song part begins. I have my alarm clock on the other side of the room from my bed so I have to get off the bed and walk to the alarm to stop it. If it were right next to the bed, I would just slap it, roll over and fall asleep again.

I need to practice guitar more.

Monday, January 12, 2009

I've gotten fat again.

When I got back to LSU last summer, I was lean and awesome. I've slacked off, and after an awesome Xmas break full of Reese's, I'm fat again. I need to lose weight. I woke up at 6 this morning. I was planning to go to the gym, but then I realized I didn't have any earbuds for my iPod. I practiced guitar instead.

I need music to keep me running. I need music to make me forget I'm running, because if I realize I'm running, I'll stop running because I hate running.

I got a Gibson SG standard, and it is really really really really really really awesome. It's a piece of work. I really think it's one of those perfect marriages of dude and guitar. It looks good, it feels good and it sounds good. Awesome!

My music has become less lyric-based. I've never been comfortable as a lyric writer, so after I write lyrics, I scratch out all the verses I don't like and just leave it at that.

"I'm gonna do something I've always wanted to do
I'm gonna do something awesome today"

simple and stupid.