One Up Studios BBQ

There are several ways to go about posting this, none of them short. The basics is this: my best friend for the past decade, Mustin, owns a music production company. I met my boyfriend, Greg, through this as he plays violin for several projects for my friend, including the OneUps , a band that plays video game music. Anyway, this weekend is the third annual BBQ for his company and I'm really excited. People from all over the US are coming out to hear the band live, and I'm really looking forward to meeting a lot of new faces.

One thing, though. I've become a sort of icon for OneUp Studios, and with that comes a role that isn't as comfortable to play now vs. 4 years ago (when you're young, roles seem to come and go pretty quickly as you're coming to terms with who you are). Anyway, I'm going over to Mustin's tonight as a lot of people are already in town. It will be interesting to say the least.

Did I mention how painfully introverted I am?

Chelsea's dinner

I have a friend whos dad is a multimillionaire. When she was visiting from college last winter, she took a handful of her friends out to an expensive dinner at a very high-class Itallian restaurant. As we examined our menus, I noticed how all of us politely pretended like we could decipher easily the paragraph-long entres. I was trying to figure out if this so-called Itallian restaurant even had spaghetti while my brother stifled a giggle about one of the menu items that seemed to be composed primarily of midevil curse words.

That's when Amanda said, "Oh my god, can anyone tell me what the hell this is? I'm supposed to be figuring out what I'm having for dinner and I feel like I'm studying for a test!"

I always have admired that person. The one who seems to speak for everyone else; the one who is uninhibited to voice what I'm even too anxious to want to think. I wish I could be that person more. I mean, it's got to be comforting to be able to not care about what other people think of you so much.

dvorak

I got this thing on my computer that makes it easier to switch between dvorak and qwerty. Every time I restart my computer, it resets my keyboard to the old qwerty layout. Now, I typed 95 words per minute in qwerty, and I PROMISE you, even at that speed, it is VERY possible to forget it if you switch layouts after a while. And since I have forgotten qwerty, I cannot type a thing in that layout! It's particularly funny because the reset gets me EVERY time. I always forget that I need to change it back to dvorak, and it takes me all of 30 seconds of typing to realize this conclusion.

Anger Management

Update my computer, buy a new computer, do this, do that. My electric "experience" can be enhanced through this or that...

I'm just wondering. Without a sh*tty computer, what will I do with my anger? Will I have to join an anger management class?

... Just wanted to see how the interface was here.