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thursday, march 19, 1998, 06:09 i finally found my mouthguard that i'm supposed to sleep with when i sleep at night. it had fallen into that little space between my desk and my computer, and up until this point i didn't really have the time nor the effort to go digging around to look for it. but at this point, i can really say that i'm done until after spring break. i have one more class this week on friday, and sure, i've got work to do over break, and meetings to go to, but i've got no pressing work for these classes. and this makes me happy. what also makes me happy is the fact that we had a very successful webcast tonight. surprisingly easy to set up, and even through our network's flakyness, we managed to broadcast jiggle the handle to a small but dedicated following spanning from florida to california. not too bad for a small-time record label in providence. slowly but surely we're getting up there, and we've got more of these webcasts coming. really, this thing was a lot of fun, and it gives me hope that somehow, somewhere, there's a job out there for me that doesn't involve groking c++ all day long until my eyes bug out of my head and all i have to show for it are a couple of new tooltip dialog boxes or something equally as lame. it seems to me that there's something out there for onsite concert broadcasts, web page updates and all the rest. it was so exciting, in fact, that i came right home, updated the page, and decided that i wanted to do a newsletter for the label. nothing big and fancy, mind you, but i've been reading all this about mailing lists and whatnot and it seems like the perfect way to get information out and to get people excited about the same things that you are. web pages are passive. you have to wait for people to come to you. but with a newsletter, you're shoving the information in their faces, and they want it, because they're the ones that signed up for it in the first place. so i'm happy. or maybe i'm just satisfied. maybe, for the first time in a while, things are looking up. or at least out. i spent the entire night working on a dumbass perl script that'll probably be completely obsolete in about half a year, but it was fun and i really didn't have much else better to do, and the most important thing of all. i could. i had the time. i had the energy. i wasn't completely worn out. i wasn't falling over dead on my feet. i was sitting here, not even noticing that the music wasn't on. not even noticing that i was a bit cold. just sitting here, listening to the rain fall pitter-patter outside my window until finallly i look up and see the sky turning that shade of purple which tells me that it's starting to become day outside. and i look out my window and see the sky getting that much brighter, and i notice that it's still raining and i see that there is no sky to speak of and i know that it's going to be a completely overcast day and i look and i really don't care because i'm going to get into bed right now and go to sleep. and not set the alarm.
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