Spring Productivity

I'm getting a little bit more productive, but I'm still having pretty bad dreams. Last night, in particular, I had two bad dreams at the same time where I existed as a seperate entity in both dreams. I don't know how I could even think like that, but that's what happened. I just remember being so confused and torn that I stopped in both dreams and yelled at myself to wake up.

So I woke up this morning. Mitch was asleep on the couch. He didn't mean to, but he fell asleep here last night. We cooked breakfast and then went to the gym to work out. It was good to have a gym partner. I haven't had a real hard workout for a while becuase I don't have someone standing behind me punching me in the kidney if I slack off. After that I got pretty productive. I went and I worked on selling sponsorships for a benefit concert the fraternity is holding for a school that teaches poor children music lessons. It's difficult. I find it hard to convince people that it's important for their business. That's all a business person thinks about. Is this good or bad for my business? It's good, trust me.

When I got home I ate a pretty big lunch and then passed out for about two hours on the couch. I woke up and Viking came home and we walked to McDonalds and got dinner. Then we came back and we watched our show. During that this guy knocked on the door. I think I scared the crap out of him because Matt was going to open it without looking and I slammed the door closed again. I grew up in a neighborhood where you just don't do that. After I slammed on the door I looked out and this small guy was standing there with a frightened look on his face. I opened the door and he mentioned in broken english that he got locked out of his house up the street and he needed to use the phone. We let him come in and hang out until his landlord could come by and let him back in. His name was Gerald and he was here on a scholars program from France. Funny how things happen.

Finally, I'm almost done my pet project for the week. I've been engineering one of my friend's senior recitals. It's about an hour long of percussion instruments of all sorts including the marimba and vibraphone. I've never worked with any of these instruments too closely before, sot it has been interesting to mix, but I think he'll like it better than the recording the school provides for recitals. Mine will be done sooner too. I went above and beyond the school's methods because they just set up two room mics and go. The problem with that is on the marimba you can't really hear the attack of the mallet at all, and that's part of the beauty of the instrument. So I set up two room mics and two close mics for the marimba and the vibraphone and it sounds pretty good. I just finished mastering it and I'm printing it to disk right now.

Well Imma go to bed. Peace and love