Alright, after coming to terms with school a bit, I’ve decided that it’s not nearly as bad as it seemed earlier. I think that I start to feel this way when it happens that a bunch of unrelated things don’t work by random chance. I think that I can turn this quarter around for the most part; it’s time to get the awesome back.

In other news, my music for Patrick’s dance piece went really well, people are already asking me to do sound / music for their pieces as well. For being a computer scientist, I think I’m actually really good at it. I mean, when the famous dance professor in the best undergraduate dance program in the US says your arrangement is good, that’s gotta mean something (I “suck less”, as Mick Shaull used to say).

I also heard something somewhat intriguing at dinner; evidently Patrick’s planning to move to Germany next year and start a company, of which I would strongly consider joining to do the music for, were he to ask me. I don’t think I’m quite ready to find myself boxed into a cubicle quite yet, and since moving to Europe was already pretty high on my list of what I want to do when I graduate, moving to Europe + writing music would be even better. No, I take that back; it’d be better than ‘better’, it’d be fucking amazing. Not only that, I could get involved in the huge Open Source movement in Europe. After I do that for awhile, I could possibly end up going back to school, get my Masters in CS, and settle down with a Real Job(tm), or who knows? Maybe I’d end up doing music for a long time. So many possibilities!

Now all I have to do is decide what I actually want to do…