The other day, Jared came over and we rerecorded “Give it to Me”. We added a couple things to it and it just sounds a lot better. He asked me before he left if I wanted to spend the night at his place and then go up to Chicago with him and a couple of his buddies to eat pizza. We spent the night there and were up til about 1:30. We woke up at 6:30 and ate at Waffle house, then went and picked up the 4th guy that came with us. We drove all the way to Chicago, walked around the city for a few hours and then ate pizza at a pizzeria called Quartino’s. The pizza was incredible, fairly inexpensive, and they gave us dessert on the house since we had come from Indianapolis. We will definitely be going down there again sometime. I really had so much fun.

Yesterday, I went over to best buy and bought two new CDs. I bought the new Incubus: Light Grenades and P.O.S. which is an indie hip hop artist. They’re both pretty good CDs. Then, Mike and I rented Little Miss Sunshine and Jackass 2 and ate Wendy’s. We went home and watched the movies and they were both pretty funny. Today, I’ve just been relaxing and recording. I recorded two songs. I redid “My Smiling Dove” and recorded a new one that I wrote today to test out multi vocal recording. I wanted to record and all vocal song with 4 or 5 of me singing. It was really funny and came out pretty cool. Tell me what you think. I go back to school tomorrow. My last semester. It’s the beginning of the end.

Presents are pretty cool. This year, I don’t really want much. My dad got me an iPod Shuffle. I really like it. It’s pretty slick… very small. I just got to my mom’s house and we got to open our mail from her family last night. I have plenty of money now to back myself up if I don’t get what I need for senior project. Last night I learned a TON of stuff about microphone technique and different recording technique and just a lot about how I can better utilize my preamp I got this summer.

I don’t ever get many presents for people… anything that I ever do, I just feel like it’s not nearly sufficient enough to give to a person. If I get a present or have plans for getting someone a present, it’s usually a really good one. I was supposed to have Lauren’s present ready yesterday. I didn’t get enough privacy to finish it, though. She already knows what she’s getting because she asked for it. I’m going to rerecord a few songs for her. After Christmas, I think I’m going have a lot of better equipment, and I can’t wait to finish it all. I’m really excited about it.

Pretty much, everything is going really well. School next semester should be good. Last one. Eeeeeee. I still don’t really know how I feel about that.

Today I read a bit about Christianity online. Jesus’ name was originally (most likely) Yeshua or Yehoshua. They mean salvation and yaweh delivers salvation, respectively. Greeks strarted calling him Lesus as Christianity started to spread and then Germans spelled it Jesus and that’s where the English language gets it today. I thought that was pretty neat.