overkill, in a good way?

as i mentioned on my twitter earlier i, in what could be a good way, went overkill on my paper i am working on. what only needed to be 3-5 pages describing a few treatment studies on a common disorder and then summarizing them turned into about 20+ hours of work. i researched the studies, i researched the studies they based their studies on, etc - and read them all top-to-bottom. even though i was only presenting the cliffnotes of each (3 pages isnt alot) i still was strangely interested enough to thoroughly read and annotate all of them. and its a holiday break right now. sad? maybe. promising sign that i am in the right field? remains to be seen.

what can be said is that for what might not even be a better grade i have put way more time into this than i intended or needed to purely because i was interested in the information i was reading about. the same will not be true about the law paper i will start tomorrow. (maybe secretly i was so interested in this because it meant i could put off moving onto the law paper longer while under the guise of being productive).

cheers.

covers

covers a, in a way, a bold act. you are taking a song that is seemingly known (in most cases) and recording your own version for people to hear. if covers were taken the same way remakes are taken in the film world - i think they would occur alot less.

anyway - after chris started his christmas cover blog post i wanted to post a few covers i heard today via Last.Fm

the first is originally by R.E.M. Has a different tone to it - much more introspective and somber.

The One I Love: http://www.last.fm/music/Rosie+Thomas/_/The+One+I+Love

the second is originally by Massive Attack. You will recognize the original as the music accompanying the opening credits to Fox's House, M.D. This cover is stripped down for the first 2/3 adding a drum section in later to build the song a bit more, in a way, that the original does.

Teardrop: http://www.last.fm/music/Newton+Faulkner/_/Teardrop

check em out!

happy thanksgiving part 2

thanksgiving was great this year because i got to celebrate it with friends last weekend (ranging from recent friends to ones i've known since before i could form memories) and with family this weekend. it's such an awesome holiday.

its summer again

not commenting on the weather or anything but on the movies and specifically the number being released weekly between now and december that i have some level of interest in. in the summer there was almost one per week and sometimes more and i ended up missing some big ones - namely Star Trek. these weeks feel like that is happening again with a serious man, precious, the road, fantastic mr. fox, etc. and more will keep being released.

breaks are a tease

not to say i am not grateful for it/them. but this sort of break is really just a few days without class so that i can actually get significant work done on the papers i have due. it was more obvious when we were younger - teachers would assign big homework over time off so it essentially was no longer time off.

ah well - thanksgiving is awesome - day dedicated to food and football - cant complain about that.

just have to buckle down on the other days

keating

i know i take a lot of pictures of this building but its is such a great subject for a photo and looks interesting.

and all the apparent astronauts