So being in AK with the fam hasn't been as bad as I thought; I've gotten to see almost all my friends, I'm spending new years @ a 5 star snowboarding resort snowboarding my ass off, and with my fiance and my best friend. wooot.  but alas the drama will begin on January 4th when I get back to Chicago and have to try to put everything back in order.  First will be classes; taking 5 classes and working about 24 hours a week is going to be a bitch but I've done more before so I know I can do it, but I also want to reorganize my personal life.  Exercise will be key, as well as putting down the video games and picking up the instruments and the textbooks, to make me smarter and a better, more well rounded person.  I'm also going to start biking to class once the snow goes away, so I will be extra healthy.

Right now, however, I'm enjoying snowboarding, which due to injury, I've been unable to enjoy in 3 years.  I won't be able to snowboard for at least another year after this, so it will be my last vestage of winter fun for the time being, and the memories will have to last. It will though, because I'm with my new family and my lifelong friends.

Reflecting on last year, I know I don't even care what has happened, only what is about to; wedding, graduation, and my own life evolving. I can't wait. Have a happy new year everyone!

Day before the trip, though if we leave early Friday, we're technically leaving tonight, because packing will keep us up most of the night. The sunrise is beautiful, though at 8 degrees, that beauty comes at a price.

I always get anxious before a trip; guess I'm scared of forgetting something, but I usually never do (fingers crossed).  What makes this time worse is the fact I have to crank out a full 8 hour day at work, then come home and pack, so I'll be mentally drained prior to having to physically drain myself.

I also have to hope the weather holds back enough to let me out of this place on time.  I hate busting my ass to get where I need to be only to have the plane pushed back by a couple of hours, because that's lost sleep, or lost planning time I could have and would have used. Oh well. At least I'll make my plane, and in all likelyhood I'll get to Alaska fine.  Wish me well!

--Matt

Done with classes for Fall Quarter! even had a two week supersmashup class, crammed my ass off and now I'm done!

Working off the time before I head to Alaska. Yes Alaska; born and raised, and drawn back there by family once again.

What is it about family that is so fucking terrible in the way that makes you not want to go home?

-Is it the obligation you feel to spend every last waking minute? because I have friends all over the city and state that I'd like to see, but when family calls, you better have your priorities straight. 


I think it is the obligation. You can miss your family and want to spend time with them but when you feel obligated to spend time with them you dread it, or at least I do, no matter how long it's been since I've seen them. I don't like the pressure that comes with family visits, the pressure that is nonexistant in visits with friends, even the closest friends.  But I'll still make my time, see my friends.

Now I'm just dreading the flight. Supposed to snow almost all weekend here in Chicago, or at least some form of preceipitation, which will royaly Fuck O'Hare.  If I make it back to AK less than 2 hours late it will be a blessing...

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Mac

As a film student, I have now officially solidified my status as one by purchasing a new MacBook Pro with all the bells and whistles. Since it is my goal to one day be a professional editor, now armed with my editing system that is 100% portable I hope to build my reel and expand my knowledge and experience. Woot.

Syndicate me Biatch!

haha Sweetness.. So now I am fully Syndicated, world FUCKIN' wide!  My first video went out on the 97.9 the loop newsletter today, and though it bordered on a foot fetish video due to the fact it was a "toe reader" (yeah I know already), I'm still proud to be a produced and syndicated promotion video creator (at least that's what I'll call it).

Not-So Psychic Toe Reader

Just finished recutting my second vid, a recap of a minor league soccer game the other station sponsors a concert series at.  Basically, lame soccer game, cool concert after.  The band this time is the Lovehammers.  Way too many puns can be made, but I'll post when it's up on the Tube.  For now, I'm off to a bar for Q101.1's guitar hero tourney finals, that should be fun.  Lemme know what ya think about my vid.. haha. wait no don't.

For Starters; The Cliff Notes of Me and Current Goings On :-)

So first, I used to LiveJournal, Myspace, Facebook, Pownce, Hi5, etc etc.  I still do some, but I've grown tired of updating 2500000 zillion profiles. I wanted one centralized place to let it out, talk, link everyone else, and screw multiplatforming!

In the big windy city called Chicago, Illinois, chillin in the Merchandise Mart at the radio station where I intern, for video ironically; I make promo videos that recap the promotional events thrown by the two conjoined (though explicitly separate publicly) stations.  Right now I'm waiting for a file to come over the server so I can start editing my latest project. 

The Cliff's Notes of me up to now:

Born and raised and Anchorage, Alaska, thats right ALASKA! With Moose and Bears and all that fun stuff.  Lived there 19.5 years of my life, and after a year of college up there (to save money) I transferred to DePaul University to major in "Digital Cinema", a fun new film degree that in its' 6 years of existence has grown into the largest undergraduate film program in the nation.  Anyways, I am engaged, living with my fiance, and 21 years old, also I am in a Fraternity on campus.  This really freaks people out (the engagement, not the fraternity) considering my age, but I'm happy, know I'm perfectly matched and happy to be committed to the woman I love (also 21) for the rest of my life, and planning on a 2009 Summer wedding post-college-graduation. 

That's me in a nutshell, and all I'm doing. What I'm thinking is a far different yet more interesting story (at least I think).

What I'm thinking is that, while I am lucky with my awesome internship, my awesome school, and happily engaged, I'd prefer to have an awesome job, working my ass off to get to the top, an awesome wife, and a couple little mini-awesome me's and she's running around with the pitter patter of little dudes and dudettes scrambling around a house.  Apartment living is ok, but living in a house versus an apartment is like having a slice of pie instead of the whole fucking pie.  Your own parking spot, your own four walls with no one up against them, and that wonderful sense of home we search our entire lives for (yes I'm paraphrasing Garden State, get over it).

My education is going swimmingly, though I sometimes get overwhelmed and think of taking all my college $ and running off to Australia to be a beach bum for the rest of my life, do menial jobs, live off of nothing, and chill.  But I know I want something bigger; I actually want to earn something, like a degree, like a promotion. I've never been able to do that in my entire life, just job to job, class to class, no recognition, no achievement, nothing. I've won awards sure, been in contests from hockey to debate, but nothing as satisfying as persisting, doing a great job, and achieving a goal that changes your life..... Now THAT will be a great feeling. 

Now that I'm done swimming in my own high hopes.. my file is in. Time to get to work.