A week and a half later, and it’s one of the most seen of all the new videos. If I felt like I could keep doing videos like that three times a week, and if I felt inclined to pander, I’d exploit this fact. ^_^
I feel I’m getting into the swing of things by now as far as videos go. I’ll be breaking double digits tomorrow in my new format, which isn’t amazing but it IS more than I uploaded in the entire YEAR previous to coming back to Youtube. I’m not getting super-views, and I’m stuck with my iSight for the foreseeable future, but I feel confident that if I keep developing and I keep making videos regularly, I’ll get somewhere with this hobby of mine.
More importantly, I’m FINALLY working on my outstanding (as in “not done”) university work. I have two modules I need to finish before I can take my bachelor’s degree and run for the hills. I’ve complicated it slightly for myself by doing three videos a week (which take me three to six hours to make), but again, I feel confident I’ll be able to finish my work by end of September.
That’s pretty much it. I hope you’re enjoying my videos and I’m crossing my fingers I’ll be able to say “Finished!” by the end of september.
(Well, I’m not crossing my fingers literally, that would be stupid. If anything, it’d slow my work DOWN!)
I talk about a dietary choice that could help both your health and the health of other animals and the world. Every little bit helps, right?
(Yes, sometimes I will eat meat during the week, but I always offset it by having a fully meatless week following that, and sometimes I’ll eat meat if it would otherwise be thrown out, because at least then it’s made use of.)
I talk about exercise and my 100 Pushup failure.
I probably won’t progress much in pushups for the next month, since I won’t be doing any actual pushups aside from the tests. I might incorporate them into my next routines, though. Feel free to do something else that’s easily measurable if you’d rather not to push-ups.
NUDE FOOD FRIDAY! (I uploaded it yesterday) Wooh!
This is hardly even cooking, but it’s easy and cheap.
Also, my parents are in town. They’re leaving tomorrow morning. It’s been unexpectedly great to have them here. Don’t get me wrong, I always love seeing my family, but it was especially nice to have them over to watch my play. It’s probably the age-old need for validation from one’s parents coming back to haunt.
The parent-child dynamic doesn’t really ever change. When I’m my dad’s age, I’ll still be his kid, and he’ll still be my dad. I’ll probably still breathlessly be telling him about this new game I’ve been playing and he’ll still be looking at me as if I’m from another planet. We want to impress our parents, and our parents want to understand our world, but at the same time we do not and cannot ever fully understand each other. When my dad grew up, he’d play in the streets because a car would only pass every half hour, if even that. My parents were both grown people when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put their feet on the moon. They can remember a time when they didn’t have a TV. I can hardly even remember a time I didn’t have a computer. In fact, I can’t. We’ve had a C64 since I was four. My nephew was searching for videos on Youtube at three years old. We can never fully know one another across such chasms of culture, history and technology.
It’s a crazy, weird problem that isn’t really a problem once you think about it. Once we accept that we are different like that and that we will always be each other’s parents and children.
Anyway, so yeah. It was a great feeling that they would come to see my play even if it is just a half-hour children’s play and not even paid work. It’s nice you have the support of the people who brought you into this world, innit?
