April 18, 2014

I slept in until 8:30AM this morning, and then in the afternoon I took a nap. I wasn't tired but I just felt like laying in bed, thinking and listening to music, napping off and on. When I wasn't doing that, I watched YouTube videos and looked into slideshow stuff. I was wanting to make a menu, even if it just says 'Play' on it, but I wasn't sure how to do that in my video editing software. It turns out there is another piece of software in the suite I got that can do all of the menu stuff I want. I'm not sure if I build the slideshow in the video editing software and then import it into the DVD software but I'm going to continue looking into it. I keep meaning to build a test project but I keep meaning to do a lot of things so I'm not surprised it hasn't happened yet.

I also worked on the purple scarf. And continued to work on it when I went to work at the theater. I think I started the day around four inches and now I'm almost to ten inches. It looks really good but I still have my doubts about whether or not I will be able to finish it in time. Not only because of time constraints but mostly because I don't think my fingers, wrists, and forearms are going to be able to keep up. I'm using small needles and the stitch requires a lot of wrestling with the needles and yarn, and that all takes a toll pretty quickly when I am already prone to pain and soreness. But I"m going to keep trying. I did some math and it was disheartening, somewhere around 24 hours to complete the scarf, so we'll see.

When I wasn't working on the scarf I finished reading a book, or novella, and watched the last hour and a half of Transcendence. The book was Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan, the same guy who wrote Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. This book was about a detective with a sentient server that was in training to be her assistant and traveled around with her in her earrings, that were also cameras so the server could see the world. That all sounds very strange and it should because it was a very strange story. And I liked it. Transcendence was also strange. I want to see the beginning of it but I don't see it being a movie I would watch again because it is a bit of a downer.

It is nice getting to sleep in and then take a nap before closing at the theater but it still sucks being at work late into the night and not getting home until 1:30AM or later. Maybe I would feel differently if I was doing something important while at work. Or at least productive. But I'm not. Not really anyway. I could easily read books and knit and watch movies at home. Granted, I wouldn't be getting paid for it, poorly but still getting paid. I would still prefer only having one job, with normalish hours, that paid well. I really wish the school paid better because I do genuinely like that job and the people I work with, but it barely pays more than the theater. So I need to find a job equally or even more enjoyable, that pays me enough money to live on. And it would be a definite bonus if it required a college degree because I didn't get two of them for nothing. I also need to do more than just talk and type about my future. I need to carpe diem and get off my ass. Take actual steps toward the future I want.