disastermagnet

So, upon a second viewing of City of God, I have decided that it is indeed one of the greatest films ever. I had really weird dreams last night, and I think that may have been the cause.

You know something? Making electronic music is hard. No, that's not qute right--making electronic music WELL is hard. My grandfather has taught me much in my life, and one of the things he always says which will stay with me for the rest of my life is "Everything is easy, but anything is hard..if you want to do it well." This holds pretty true of making tracks. It's easy to smash a bunch of sounds together and not pay attention to what it sounds like. Ugh. Let's talk about something else.
But let's not talk about my day, because that was utterly retarded. I set out to find a lowly job today only to have the car break down after the first stop, which was for food, and not even in search of gainful employment. Determined, I walked across the street and filled out an application at the local Pier One. The story takes a horrifying turn when I realize that page 2 is a PERSONALITY TEST. A fucking personality test. I want to run screaming when I see those things, because I can't trick them. They always know that I hate everybody, no matter how hard I try to fool them. Those crafty, crafty fuckers. Anyone who gives me one of those personality tests is going to learn VERY QUICKLY that I'm not the kind of person you want working around the public.
So right. We're not talking about my day. Let's talk about my future. I'm hearing reports that tech hiring is set for a massive surge here in the Silicon Valley (well, alright I guess I'm a bit south of the SV, but close enough damn you!). As bad as I want to feel optimistic about that, I just can't fool myself into false hope again. For 3 god damn years I've been hearing that conditions are right for a massive tech recovery, and yet it never seems to come. On another front, I'm seriously examining the possiblity of getting some training and certification so that I can be a Japanese Translator. Turns out there's an accredited Tranlsation and Interpretation school about an hour and half south of me. I looked at the course list, and found out some very interesting things. Did you know that Tranlsation and Interpretation are 2 different things? So different, in fact, that you can major in One or the other or DOUBLE MAJOR IN BOTH?? God dammit, they aren't that fucking different! What the hell are you trying to pull? And for christ's sake what the fuck is Translation Theory? Motherfucker, I love studying Japanese, but there is no way I'm paying somebody money to tell me a bunch of bullshit. I'll sit here and read more Japanese and actually learn the god damn language myself thanks.

*ahem*

But anyway, how are YOU doing?