"Can you hear that hopeful heart?"

Oh, man. I know what I'm going to be doing over the winter break. The vid muse hit me hard this week, and in between finishing my syllabus and paper assignments for next semester, I'm going to attempt no fewer than three vids. (No prizes whatsoever for guessing the subject of said vids.) I just hope the library is prompt in getting me the DVDs I need for source material.

With the source I had, I started one tonight after tinkering with the thesis until I could tinker no more. Granted, I currently have enough source to get me through the first twelve seconds of the song, but they're twelve nice seconds, if I do say so myself. The song is "Happiness" by the Weepies. Given the clips I have in mind (and have written down on my little Excel spreadsheet along with the lyrics, instrumental figures, and times-down-to-the-second of each, because I am a giant organizational nerd), it is going to be the perkiest damn vid you ever did see. I'm so excited.

Snow day

Huh. It did snow last night. It is in fact still snowing. You know much as I dislike the white stuff after my winters in Ohio, this is just about the perfect snowfall--it's just warm enough that the roads and sidewalks look to be perfectly clear, but it's sticking to everything else and making it look rather pretty. It looks like there's about an inch on cars and trees, slightly less on the grass. And it's Saturday, so I have absolutely nowhere to go, and can stay inside where it's warm and watch it melt keep falling.

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Thank you for the snowflake, anonymous v-gifter! It's especially apropos for today (although of course everything melted by this afternoon).

Victory will soon be mine!

Hooray! I finally found the point I'm going to make in this section of my third chapter after searching for it all day!*

Now, if I can just elucidate it before my brain shuts off for the night...

Also, I appear to have become a tenor in the last several hours. Possibly a tenor who occasionally shapeshifts into a seal. *bark bark*

* Uhhhh, well, minus a few hours of vidding, anyway. What can I say, most of my source material came in to the library today, and it was just lying there, calling to me. I couldn't help myself. And now I only have about twenty seconds scattered here and there that need footage, which, let's face it, I'm going to go down and get from the library tomorrow, because I am weak. But the whole project puts a smile on my face every time I think about it, so that's a good thing, right?