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Out of Control

I have officially lost control of my life. My senior thesis film has taken over.

I spent the majority of the weekend preparing for this coming weekend's auditions for my film. I answered emails for at least twelve hours (probably more) from people requesting appointments to read, asking for more information about the film, trying to get me to join their projects, etc. It was a royal headache.

Then I made the promise that I'd have sides (script excerpts to prepare for auditions) ready by Saturday Night/Sunday morning. I needed to have one ready for each of my five characters. I halfway wrote one Saturday night, then woke up Sunday morning to a slew of new emails. I answered those as new ones continued to flow in, attempted to fill in audition timeslots and organize headshots and resumes. 2pm rolled around, and I had no sides ready.

It's now a quarter after eleven, Sunday night. I have caught up on emails, sent out sides to all that need them, and played one round of Call of Duty on my new Xbox (more on the lack of control in the whole debacle of getting that later).

It's slightly terrifying how Karma works across the fiction-reality boundary line. For writing a film that deals with a girl who loses all control of her life while a series of bad things happens to her, I'm getting punished in the real world by losing all control of my own life.

Now it's time to start the homework for my other four classes.

Senior Panel Project

Painted on part of the walkway outside Addams Hall:

Today's Diet

Diet for October 6th, 2008:

4 Strawberry Pop-Tarts
2 16 oz Rockstar Energy Drinks (120 g sugar, 320 mg caffeine)
10 Wheat Thins (estimated)
1/2 Individual-Sized Bag Herr's Blue Potato Chips


Hello diabetes, hello ruptured coronary artery.

Wow

"Does the realization of the meaninglessness and absurdity of life necessarily require suicide?"

Now there's something to write an essay about.

I'm glad the answer he came up with was "No."

Shifty

More of the same. I did something and it's somewhere. It's nothing new, but now the Potato Pirates website is at potatopirates.com. There's buried treasure somewhere on the homepage. See if you can find it.

Endo Summer Update

Some things have changed since June.

mattemrick.com has not. The CreateDesignDestroy site mentioned before is no longer at the sas.upenn.edu address and has been combined with mattemrick.com.

The Potato Pirates webpage has also moved. The address, until issues surrounding the name 'potatopirates.com' have been resolved, is now potatopirates.mattemrick.com.

My senior thesis seminar has officially started in earnest and as part of it, continual updates of my senior thesis blog, And Hunt Soy, are necessary.

I'm planning on getting back in the swing of things with watching good movies. The MIWWAP blog should experience some updates too.



The artwork for the Potato Pirates self-titled first album is just about done. I really enjoyed working with Sterb on getting that done. The album itself should be completed and printed by the end of the month.

I'm thinking of starting a new segment called "Places I've Napped." For some reason naps have become (if not always have been) an important and much enjoyed part of my life. I have started napping anywhere and everywhere, and a record of the places I nap might be interested. Stay tuned on that one...

I think that's about it. Happy September.