I spend too much time writing about my inability to write
I have an incredibly annoying habit of telling myself over and over again that I'm going to do something and then never doing it.
Take today as an example. Sam came round and we were determined to record the next episode of the podcast, dub some footage of Superman 64 and discuss that video we've been meaning to record for Computing club. I was also determined that I'd get some fiction writing done and do some of my other homework.
Needless to say, none of this got done. There were a variety of reasons for this. One is that Sam brought with him Budokai Tenkaichi and I finally got round to hooking up my second hand PS2 so, Sam being the Dragonball Z nut that he is, we spent a great deal of time playing that.
Another is that both of us are very easily distracted, particularly when faced with what looks like work. I wanted to look up some videos of the animated Superman series on YouTube to see if they had the actual voice actor for all three lines of dialogue in Superman 64, which I doubted. We ended up spending 15 minutes watching a documentary about how the makers adapted traditional comic book villains into animated forms.
Plans were also scuppered by my continuing addiction to Weird Al music videos and by Sam's desire to watch Ghost Light the whole way through. This would be my fourth time (once normally and once each with production subtitles and the commentary track) and I can more or less understand the plot now. The first few minutes went slowly but once we realised that we'd be there for the rest of our lives if I tried to explain every bizarre thing in the plot, it sped up.
Still, the day wasn't entirely unproductive. It seems that if I push my self to do absolutely everything, I'll fail but I'll still manage to get some stuff done. We did mess around on Superman 64, collecting about an hour's worth of footage and some insight into the seven circles of hell. Which, incidentally, there are nine of in the original Divine Comedy. Unfortunately, we never got around to editing much of it because iMovie decided to screw with the sound every time I tried to add subtitles. No idea why.
We didn't get the podcast recorded either. We kept putting it off more and more until Sam's mum was due in 10 minutes and we seemed to have no more time. James, my brother, then suggested that we record a quick trailer for the next episode rather than trying to do the full thing. Sam, Erin, James and myself quickly made a start on this idea. It would seem my brother has a hidden talent for ad-libbing humorous trailer voice-overs. Sam and I tossed in a few inexplicable one-liners, Erin did some even more inexplicable one-worders and James provided some music he'd downloaded to put behind the voices and over-dramatise everything.
You can probably expect to hear that tomorrow.
And I've just realised something. For all my blabbering about productivity or the lack thereof, I haven't done the woodle for today. I vaguely recall planning to get Sam to draw something for it but it seems like I forgot about that.
Oh, well. I'll try to do something about that in the morning. And write that post for the MacTake. I'm actually pretty useless, aren't I?
Take today as an example. Sam came round and we were determined to record the next episode of the podcast, dub some footage of Superman 64 and discuss that video we've been meaning to record for Computing club. I was also determined that I'd get some fiction writing done and do some of my other homework.
Needless to say, none of this got done. There were a variety of reasons for this. One is that Sam brought with him Budokai Tenkaichi and I finally got round to hooking up my second hand PS2 so, Sam being the Dragonball Z nut that he is, we spent a great deal of time playing that.
Another is that both of us are very easily distracted, particularly when faced with what looks like work. I wanted to look up some videos of the animated Superman series on YouTube to see if they had the actual voice actor for all three lines of dialogue in Superman 64, which I doubted. We ended up spending 15 minutes watching a documentary about how the makers adapted traditional comic book villains into animated forms.
Plans were also scuppered by my continuing addiction to Weird Al music videos and by Sam's desire to watch Ghost Light the whole way through. This would be my fourth time (once normally and once each with production subtitles and the commentary track) and I can more or less understand the plot now. The first few minutes went slowly but once we realised that we'd be there for the rest of our lives if I tried to explain every bizarre thing in the plot, it sped up.
Still, the day wasn't entirely unproductive. It seems that if I push my self to do absolutely everything, I'll fail but I'll still manage to get some stuff done. We did mess around on Superman 64, collecting about an hour's worth of footage and some insight into the seven circles of hell. Which, incidentally, there are nine of in the original Divine Comedy. Unfortunately, we never got around to editing much of it because iMovie decided to screw with the sound every time I tried to add subtitles. No idea why.
We didn't get the podcast recorded either. We kept putting it off more and more until Sam's mum was due in 10 minutes and we seemed to have no more time. James, my brother, then suggested that we record a quick trailer for the next episode rather than trying to do the full thing. Sam, Erin, James and myself quickly made a start on this idea. It would seem my brother has a hidden talent for ad-libbing humorous trailer voice-overs. Sam and I tossed in a few inexplicable one-liners, Erin did some even more inexplicable one-worders and James provided some music he'd downloaded to put behind the voices and over-dramatise everything.
You can probably expect to hear that tomorrow.
And I've just realised something. For all my blabbering about productivity or the lack thereof, I haven't done the woodle for today. I vaguely recall planning to get Sam to draw something for it but it seems like I forgot about that.
Oh, well. I'll try to do something about that in the morning. And write that post for the MacTake. I'm actually pretty useless, aren't I?
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11:24 PM
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