shoo!

first and foremost, happy monday to all. i hope everyone's week has gotten off on the right foot. or something. mine has, i suppose. and i only "suppose" because i don't know how it could have started any better - which i guess can be both good and bad. all is well.

i went for a jog this afternoon after work. the combined heat and humidity made me feel like i was running through the sahara desert on ice skates. i ran as far as my legs (and rest of my body, for that matter) would allow me, and then i stopped. i didn't want to over do it - i haven't ran consistently in like 5 months. maybe more. maybe less. but it has been awhile. i hope to run 3 days a week if i can. i usually break my goal after the first day, but i'm going to try my best to follow through...

speaking of work - things are going pretty well. i've been working anywhere between 40 and 50 hours a week, and often times, saturday is included in that count. which is sad. but it makes my wallet happy (heh.....). i find the most discouraging part of my job is having shards of aluminum shoot from the sawblade towards my body. the pain that these shards inflict are the equivalent (if not moreso) to the sting of a 2 pound hornet. i usually try to step away from the saw if i'm sawing something that i know sends of lots of debris, but today it seemed that i forgot. alot. the favored target of the afternoon was my neck. needless to say, i'm learning my lesson quickly.

another lesson i'm learning is that i'm not cut out to work in a place like Cooper. i don't know if it is a matter of me not being man enough or what. if nothing else, working at Cooper for these few months is giving me incentive to go to college. yahoo.

nowww, speaking of college. i was recently (a few months ago) reminded by a friend of a college in Nashville called Belmont, which has a flourishing music scene and strong programs of study involving music and such. I had known about the school before. I'm just not sure why I never gave it a second glance. I checked their website, and as it turns out, it has a Music Business degree, which is something that i have sort of had my eye out for. I'm planning on visiting a friend who lives in Nashville (and is also considering Belmont) next month to take a look around. I'll keep you posted.

whewwf. well. i think i'm done for now. if anything comes to mind, i'll be back. maybe.

- Steven