The Marvelous Patric - 2008 Day 356

dear blog,

the year of the patric is almost over. i'm not going to do a year-in-review post like everyone else. that is just soooooo 2007.

so what is new with patric? well, i finally got a diagnosis on my terrible head pain. i have atypical facial neuralgia. with a diagnosis with that many big words, you'd probably think i'm dying. but, i'm not. actually, it's quite treatable with medicine. for like the rest of my life. but, it could be worse.

i've been playing my bass at my new church. i haven't played very much, but it's been a lot of fun. i wish i was better, but considering i haven't really played my bass in years and never played in a group before, i think it's going fairly well.

band is also going fairly well. we're on break now until the 5th.

my first semester of grad school is also over. i assume i did fairly well. i really don't care much about grades. it seems fairly ridiculous that i could get an A in the class i learned the most in and also get an A in the class i learned the least in. fairly arbitrary, wouldn't you say?

I really liked my Rhetoric of Style class. I think the most creative work I've written in a long time came from that class. far more creative than my actual creative writing class. I learned so much there and had so much fun.

i'm thinking of collecting all my writings from this semester into a pdf and selling it. the work would include 4 short stories and a couple of essays. i'm not sure how many pages, but at least fifty, likely more.

i ended up canning my secret project. the project was a 6 minute animated FNS holiday special. i have the voices and the artwork, but i was having trouble getting the lip-sync to work out. i decided i would rather keep it until next year. maybe i can get someone good at animating to help out. i'd also like to find some music and stuff, so i think it if i wait, it'll work out much better.

FNS is going to return next week. i'm going to devote the time i would have spent animating to drawing it. which is like, tomorrow night. but still, it's the thought that counts. oh, who am i kidding? i'm gonna waste time playing guitar hero.

i have to finish my xmas shopping tonight. i have only a couple of things left to buy.

and i get to work over break. it's "extra" money not included in my usual GA package. woos and hoos.

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