You may well have already seen, but there are news stories all over about U2 postponing the final leg of the tour, as they did the first, over the serious illness of a family member. There's no further official detail, but rumours have been saying either Larry's father, or Edge's daughter Sian again...

And Megs, who's been updating me with what she's heard, told me this:
It looks like it's Sian. Reportedly, at the end of the last show in South America, Bono said "Hang on, little Sian, daddy will be home soon. Hang on..."

...my prayers are with them, all of them.


(I'm not even going to talk about what shitty selfish things are going on over at Interference and other places, it makes me so mad that people can be so--- grr. I can't even talk about it.)

 
BWA! MY SONG IS DONE AND IT IS AWESOME!!!

download plzthx. it's amateurish, I know, I'm no longer a music student and only remember the basic rudiments of chords, but I think it's pretty. <3

Holy hell it takes a lot of work to get five minutes though. ^^;;; But so worth it. This is.. oh idek, probably in the area of 6-8 or so hours, not nearly all at once, tonight was the longest spurt and that was nearly three hours.

Finale 2006 (which I love but has an odd way of crescendo entry, for which I had to check the damn instructions. sigh. but the human playback option rocks like whoa.). Flute, alto flute (which is in a different key, which made for a hell of a time writing things for it, so there's a bit less of that..sounds the same on here anyway), celeste <3, and piano. Tom says it needs more strings, but he's biased, he was a violin player (the cute lil geekboy <3).

In case you missed, this is for my first video project of the semester (yeah.. we spent way too long on dumb exercises in that class.. stupid space monkeys), which's on mapping, more details are on my video blog. Idek how well it'll fit offhand, I haven't even played this and watched the video within like half an hour of each other, just tried to keep the mood of the video in mind...and then wandered off track a lot, and tried to get it back on tonight when I hashed out the entire second half. ^^;;

It doesn't have a name, at least not yet. The video is of walking through an old cemetary..well, rather, it's three videos, the project is to make three video tracks that play simultaneously, we're putting them to a dvd, and the viewer will be able to switch from one track to another whenever they want. So I have (1) walking through a cemetary, (2) remembering the walk through the cemetary, and (3) artistic interpretation of that memory (aka drawings and bits of writing).

So off to house meeting-- shit now lmao. Then back to the lab. Wheeeeee.

 
So, once again, life is ridiculously busy, and I don't think I can breathe until tomorrow. Even then, I need to catch up on my capstone like whoa.. had meant to get a lot more work done over the weekend, buuuut I got hit with a massive cold of DOOM. And was barely alive, let alone up to getting work done.

Feeling better now, still sick but it's managable, I can get through a class without stopping to blow my nose, which is nice.

As mentioned in a comment conversation with Megs, saw Haruna in The Glass Menegerie, and both she and the play overall were amazing, her ability to express emotion so vividly without even speaking a word never ceases to amaze me. The set really intrigued me as well, they set up the apartment all abstractly, as it was in the smaller theater, which's in the round, so rather than pictures hung on walls, the frames were all suspended in the air and things, it was really nice. What I loved most though, was Laura's collection of glass animals.. a few were set on a low table, but the rest were suspended in the air, in a gentle swirl, curling down the border of light set by a single golden spotlight shining down.. it was really beautiful.

I think it was Saturday, there was a drag show, which was originally supposed to run along with the annual Superdance, but carried on in spite of Superdance being cancelled, and I went because Daf-- excuse me, Adam Bonds, was performing. And omfg he was ADORABLE. Everyone was dying at the cute little geekboyness. So cute. All three drag queens and kings looked fantastic, and it was quite fun, I'd been really debating about going cos I felt like shiiiiit, but, I'm so glad I did, they were all pretty. I wish I were half as graceful as drag queens are. sigh.

Otherwise, I've been living in the lab again, hours and hours working on video, and now I'm staring at the front end of a render that's looking about like... bleh. A few hours, at least. Damnit. Best of all, is that in-progress critiques finished on Monday, some people (Tom included) had to reshoot and totally rework things. The project is now due on Wednesday. There are thirty people in the class, 21 computers in the lab, and 10 computers with the necessary video program on them.

Luckily I think I finished all my editing last night, but exporting.. is going to take a shitload of time, I'm glad Tom rushed us here to get in the second the last class of the day let out. However.. my song isn't finished, I started putting something together in Finale, to try something different, put my own music in (amatuerish as it is)... I have a bit over two minutes' of song. My video is definitely five minutes. There is no Finale in the lab.

So it looks like I'll be bouncing back and forth between the lab and my room this evening... oh, and then there's the randomly mandatory house meeting at 9.30 at the dorm. uh-huh.

And I'm so tired... Today was my afternoon at the daycare, and while the little kids are darling and I love and they make me smile, pulling them around two at a time on a sled around the playground, with them constantly demanding to go faster.. gets a little tiring when it's for half an hour straight. But they're cute and I had two of them following me and making sure I was going to come back again and things. <333