A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

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Well now that finals are FINALLY over I get to get back to doing stupid shit like writing my blog post! Sweet! :P
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So like I said, my classes are over, and the grades are starting to come in. My freehand drawing class I've gotten a C in thanks to the grading points of improvement shown / final project / and sketchbook. I'm posting my final project drawing here so you guys can check out how much I'm improved in my drawing abilities. -- The other grade I've gotten so far is an A in my 3D design class, which I knew was coming, that class was perfect! Interesting, simple, easy, and creative! Just perfect, and I think I might make use of it later in my life as a job, hopefully. -- The other two grades have yet to come in, but I doubt they're lower than a C, which means I will NOT need to pay the tuition and stuff for next semester if all goes well! YAY! and that of course brings me to, next semester x_x
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Next semester is going to be quite hellish, seeing as how I have to take courses that I have no need to because the college doesn't offer the ones I need to take for my degree, and the ones it IS offering are happening at 9AM. *falls over and dies*
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My job situation is interesting right now, I've got a job selling knives for Cutco and Vector Marketing, which is a decent job, as I'll be getting 15 bucks for each sales presentation I do, never mind if I sell anything or not! Of course after my pessimist seeming parents go and blast the job about how "Anyone can get that job" and "You'll run out of people to sell to in under a week!", I'm still looking around, more casually now. The big idea at the moment is to check out Newark Airport for jobs, either with the airport itself or with the stores inside because damn it's a big place and tons of jobs there I would expect.
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One of the big things I'm also doing right now for making money is survey taking! Yes, I've registered for valuedopinions and so far I've built up around 12 bucks worth of surveys since December 1st. Not bad for spending a half hour every week or so to grab some quick easy money. Granted they only pay you once you reach 20 dollars and the surveys are all averaging about 2 to 3 dollars a pop, but hey, it's good stuff, and I get to have my opnion heard because I like making products better!
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I have discovered a few awesome jugglign tricks I'm capable of doing since releasing 19:87, got a little footage of them, but I'm still working on perfecting them actually. I have found an awesome new place to practice however! The Perth Amboy campus of MCC has a stairwell in it which has a platform that is about 12 feet wide, 6 feet deep, and the ceiling is at least a dozen feet tall, so with any luck I'll be getting footage there.
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I'm also going to be putting up a youtube video of my new room setup maybe because of the new paintjob and the new furnishings, lamps, and shelves up on the walls. It's not 100% finished, but at the moment it's close enough.
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Daily Life:
So I have a nice story to tall, about my last day of classes, well technically I had no classes that day, but it was the last day of the semester, and I was doing two things. Firstly, I was running the video game lounge for Tech.MCC in the afternoon as part of the end of the semester party. Secondly, a few hours after that I was going to perform in the Christmas variety show put on by the theater and improv club.

So let's begin in chronological order, with my usual rantings about how the bureaucracy of the college keeps getting worse and worse all the time. I had reserved the room and asked formally on the papers for the projectors and TV's we need at 11AM. I woke up on time and got there at 11, to find that the stuff isn't there and the room we requested is LOCKED. Luckily student activities is in the same building a few meters away, so I go down to see what's going on. THEY tell me that they saw the request sheet for the room to be scheduled for noon. Fucking A, alright, so an hour isn't that bad. I waited and grabbed some food while I setup the equipment inside after the custodians unlocked the door for me. Noon comes by, and the projectors and TV's I'd requested haven't showed up still, and the thing is only going to last until 5:00, so I give the AV department a call from the info desk, THEY heard 2PM as the time to deliver the stuff! FUCK!

Luckily the AV department isn't that incompetent, as I'd spoken to the head person there she sent out a notice to all the staff who were on their lunch brewaks to bring the equipment there as soon as their break was over. Alright, so finally 1PM rolls around and here's the guy with the projectors and a TV, and I can finally setup! Now, I personally brought in 2 systems, a N64 and a Wii, and I was hopefully going to have other club members come by with either another console or at least more N64 controllers, what a shocker, nobody from the club besides me and another guy who didn't have any equipment showed up...

It was alright though, for the next three and a half hours the game room went off without a hitch, even though I had a hell of a time with the signs, seeing as how if I put it over the door or the window it's be considered a fire hazard and the tape wouldn't stick to the brick walls. So people came in and out and played Mario Kart and Smash Brothers and things were good, very good in fact. Then we got the call around 4:30 to pack it up so the AV department can put back the equipment before their 5:00 ending time. Fair enough, thanks for telling me. So overall, a decent success, of course another problem I had was with the assholes of the college in charge of parking, where I had to get alkl of MY equipment for both my performance and the game room out from the loading area THEN go park in the far away student lot instead of the lot right next to the building, which up until this semester was a visitors lot... Oh well.

So a few hours passed and now came time to perform, I was pretty nervous about my act because I was doing such a heavily revised act and I hadn't performed since the summer. I started second act after the intermission. I started off with my 3 ball act, and holy crap a made a few nice drops right at the start of the routine, managed to cover them with kickups but still, I made my way through there to the 5 ball routine which went well except for one big drop right at the start of it. Then I tried my 7 ball run, as I planned, because I'm not great at collecting that on command yet, I did the usual run until you screw up and stop trying to catch them all. So that went well then I brought out a new thing, my three bat routine, that went great save for a stupid drop right in the middle and a big drop on a 1up360 I should have never attempted in the first place. So after that came the volunteer half of the act, and that went swimmingly, because there it's ok to drop and I even planned on making drops thanks to my blindfold portion. So that went well indeed.

Now, before that night as I was deciding what to perform, the idea came to me to bust out my Muffin Clutches act, but then i decided against it seeing as how it was a christmas show and there'd be older folks and maybe even kids. During rehearsals though I heard the rap group go through their set and HOLY SHIT there was a lot of swearing and crap in there. It was then I decided that I would perform it, and right at the end of my act, sure enough I came back out onstage without a shirt on, tucked two under my man boobs, and proceeded to perform, much to the enjoyment of the crowd. Chalk up another standing ovation for this stupid little routine of mine, that's three out of three standing Ovations so far.

After my act I went backstage to hang out on the couch in the dressing room and mull over how I'd done, I was a bit pissed and upset about the number of drops I had, but I eventually came around after even my fellow performers were giving me high fives over the act and saying how entertaining it was. So overall it was a good act :D I'm not gonna post it to youtube because of all the drops, but at least I achieved my goal of satisfying the audience.

So the rest of the show went by and then it was cleanup time, where I was FINALLY able to bring my car around to the stage door parking lot and put all my crap in the back, and then we all headed off to the Skylark for a traditional post-show diner dinner! Which was great because I'd never been to the Skylark yet and I was starving for a good burger. It was all great times hanging out, making jokes and everything, and then came 2AM and time to leave for home, full, satisfied, and tired as all living HELL! XD

Juggle This:
So what have I been practicing to get recently/have gotten recently? Well there's a few really good moves I've been looking back upon recently, stuff that I'd done 3 or 4 videos ago and have not done since, stuff like 720's (from Not Yet Famous) and 5 ring half overheads (from Slow Freeze). I recently got a full qualify back to a cascade in the 5 ring half overheads trick on camera. I actually got it twice on camera, the first time within 2 minutes, but that time was completely out of frame *facepalm*. Nevertheless, I got it again and it looks totally sweet. The next move I got recently was my first ever two stage 720, with three balls I got the first two up, then the third way up, caught the two, then threw in the next spin and made it. Of course that time the BATTERY ran out right as I was getting the damned trick, so i have to do it again now. I'll get it though, it's a simple move when it falls into place.

I'm doing quite a bit more training now than I used to do, and I've recently realized about lone of my favorite 5 ring tricks, the full reverse, that I could go into and run the pattern, but never come back out into a normal cascade. So I've been spending a while working on that and I've made it once or twice. I also spent some time and broke my record with that very trick as well, now I'm standing at a 36 catch to a clean finish run on camera for my next vid.

I do want to bring up one last thing though, and it's really bugged the crap out of me, what with all my classes and laziness, I haven't gone to a juggling club since going to the IJA. It especially gets on my personal nerves because at Philly Fest, I got my turn to have the Magic Club from Dan Eaker. It's sitting right there in my prop box, and I haven't done a damned thing with it, that gets me irked because I want it to do it's traveling, I want to see it go to the next person, but I want to bring it to the NYC juggling club at least and make a video with it before sending it off. Just something that's been irking me the past few months. Hopefully now that classes are over, I'll be able to make it to the Carmine St Irregulars either on the 31st or on the 7th and get that video done so i can mail it off to whoever is next on the list, I really gotta check that too...

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150