You Don't Know Me. Yes I Do.

Sorry about the lack of update. I'm not sure who exactly I'm apologizing too, but I'm sure it's someone. So sorry anyway.

School has been rough; it's not a lie when I say that this is probably the hardest schooling I've ever experienced. Mostly just hard critiques and the complete inability to appease instructor. Blah, one more week, one more week of finals hell, but I can get through it. All in all though, I've learned a lot this term, so I guess I should be thankful.

So let's rewind.

Thanksgiving.


I had a great time. I was a little sad because I wasn't at home. Ever since I went veggie, the food portion of Thanksgiving didn't enthuse me, so it was quickly supplemented with being with friends and family. I made the best of my new situation and ate at Emilie's apartment here in Portland.

We had a great time! We went out and bought all the fixings; a Tofurkey, stuffing, potatoes, green beans, those crunchy onion things and of course wine and beer. Everything was unbelievably delicious. I was so full after it all:


Then we watched the rest of The OC season 3 and then started The Lord of the Rings before I passed out from Fake L-Typtophan and too many beers.

Since Thanksgiving, it's been somewhat crazy. A lot of school, a lot of ex-roommate drama and trying to afford anything remotely fun. Mostly school. Guh.

The Portland weather has been a little crazy. It rained for 3 weeks straight, without delay, then it snowed for about 20 minutes followed by more rain. Although for the past 2 weeks or so it's been fairly nice, albeit a little cold, but I'll take cold over rain (or the combo therein) anytime.

Sex Cells Records:

The label stuff has been going pretty well. We have a myspace, and the first record is all finished up except for mastering that is occurring in late January. After that, it just needs artwork (there's some good artists that might be working on this) and then off to the pressing plant. And then I guess I'll have to find places for CD's in my apartment. Still, it's all very exciting and I hope we can release some other stuff pretty soon after getting the Dead Mechanical stuff out the door.

Zine:

My idea for the zine took a wild turn. First off, the name is different and the whole concept is different. I'm going to keep pretty quiet about it until I start re-working things but I will say that this is all pretty intoxicating and I'm pretty fucking stoked. I plan to get working pretty hard on it when I'm back home.

Home!:

I'll be home here this coming Friday (the 15th) and I can't wait. I'm a little nervous to be away from Portland that long, 3 weeks in total, but I'm really excited to see everyone, catch an MU basketball game and I also plan to spend a few days with my (newly engaged!) brother in St. Louis.


Lastly:

I guess I don't have much more to say. I really hope to see a lot of people when I get back; I'm greatly excited by that idea. I feel like I'm missing out on so much, but I guess that's what comes when you move away. I feel very differently than I did before about my move. As things settled down here and when I established a routine and all of the fear and loneliness subsided, I really feel like I made the best decision to explore life outside of Columbia. I just don't care about things as obsessively, nor do I worry about the tiny minutia that goes on. I know longer care about who is with who, or running into some asshole. Being away from that stuff, even for just 5 months, has been really refreshing and it's really put things in perspective. I suggest everyone tries it.

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