I just realized how wide widescreen really is

Sometimes I feel like I'm not learning enough. Through countless (not really) years of public schools, it's been hard-wired into my brain that if I'm not learning what other people want me to learn, I'm wasting my brain. Here's what my brain has been up to:

-Video production
I can't get enough of figuring out things in this area. Effects, transitions, shooting style, technical stuff like encoding and anything else I might have missed.

-Visual pleasance training; not sure if I worded that well but basically how good things look behind a lens or in a frame

-Audio engineering
OMG my love and life right now. EQ, compression, ADATs, mixers, mics, mic placement, all that stuff.

-Ear training, not so much in the sense of music theory anymore, but a different but related sense of space and EQ

-Visualizing music more linearly. I think looking at it left to right more like a DAW sequencer can help me write better melodies.

-Computer system security
I didn't think I'd be too interested at first but I'm taking a class about computer hacking and prevention. It's awesome.

There's a whole bunch of other stuff but I don't want to write so much at 2:40 AM. Getting sleepy. These are the main things anyway.

My driving philosophy is to be ready. For what? I don't know. At some level, it's more of a "for who" rather than "for what," but it's not a huge thing.


In other news, I think I'll grow my hair again for a little bit. Probably until my mom offers to pay for a hair cut hahahah!

Waking up in the middle of the night

11:15 doesn't count as "the middle of the night" but it felt like it anyway. I had planned to wake up at 4 so I went to bed at 9ish. I even had a dream (it was in HD).

And now I can't fall back asleep. I've been struggling for about an hour or so.

I did the only thing any sensible person would do. I got up, went to the kitchen and ate a piece of cheesecake. Then I went to the bathroom to pee. All without turning on a single light.