is this thing on?

yeah i’m still here, just haven’t felt much like writing anything here for a bit. so time for a status update:

the bump is getting bigger by the day – not long now and i won’t be the smelliest, noisiest, least mature member of the household

and i think i am having sympathetic pregnancy issues – or it could be all the junk food and complete lack of exercise. not looking forward to my diabetes/cholesterol check next week…

on the uni front last semester i got a way better mark than i expected/deserve for one of my subjects which is a good thing cos it would have been really embarrassing to have a fail on my transcript for a subject called “How Should I Live” (it was a philosophy subject about ethical theories – why they couldn’t just call it Ethical Theory i don’t know). still waiting for the results on my other subject for last semester which haven’t been posted as yet – that’s what happens when the guy running the subject is a scatterbrained academic – makes for amusing lectures but is hopeless when it comes to paperwork. next semester i am taking a break to spend sleepless nights with the new arrival rather than last minute essay writing.

no i haven’t quit my job. yes i still work with incompetents and idiots.

and in the ‘jumping on the bandwagon after it has stalled and run into a ditch’ front i have discovered the sound editing software on my PC and have been making mash-up / noise CDRs. quality is variable but at least some have turned out kind of interesting – 15 to date.

also have started on my first collaboration effort with the venerable Shit Magnet – we have managed to complete two tracks so far and who knows we may even get around to finishing a whole CD at some point.

watch this space.

rattling around the void

 i am too lazy and too tired to bother with a proper post but felt like putting something on this thing.

so a brief wrap up of activity around void central:

the bump: growing nicely thanks, heartbeat was at 155bpm at last check up so  right on target according to the doc which is good. what’s not so great is J feeling knackered all the time and having stretchy ligament pain. i try to empathise but the only thing stretching on me is my gut from sitting behind a desk all day and eating too much bad food when she is not around…

work: for fuck sake somebody please just make a fucking decision already.

uni: deadlines rapidly approaching for essays that i haven’t even looked at the questions for yet – and a new and exciting habit i’ve developed recently of falling asleep in my lectures, literally.

so procrastinating a lot then?: you bet. procrastinating to avoid study combined with the fact that J was interstate for a few days and the cat didn’t care if i stayed up till 4 in the morning fucking around on the computer has meant some prime procrastination action. it’s amazing how many new blogs you can find and decide that you MUST book mark ‘cos you know you will OF COURSE go back and read them regularly if you really try. but i’ve also been mucking about with noise mash up/cut up manipulations which has been at least fun to make if nothing else.

the results so far:

the two women ep (cdr) – noise manipulations and a remix thingy of one of Kami’s shitfinger tracks.

search and destroyed (cdr) – an hour and a bit long desecration of the stooges song  search and destroy

mangles the classics (cdr)  – a big mash up mess – 13 tracks of wank jokes, mismatched guitar riffs, out of time drum samples and wholesale songs smushed together in a noisy, ugly stew.

pointless and stupid but it keeps me amused.

playing with crayons

yeah i’m pissing about with the look again instead of writing any actual content…

hello? anybody home??

yeah, i’m still here.

procrastinating instead of doing my uni essay that is due soon and the touristy thing here in Germany. there has been some action but that is being reported on over at the other blog (the family friendly one) www.michaeljerusha.wordpress.com

still, check back in occassionaly as i will sporadically update here with stuff that is not appropriate for the audience of the other blog. like the observation made in Austria last week that the further south you go in Europe the bigger the average bust size of the general population seems to get. apparently. not that i noticed or anything.

deadlines, schmedlines….

and so this blog returns to its original raison d'etre…

with two uni essays due and rapidly approaching deadlines i am of course procrastinating for all i'm worth. the fact that one of the essays is worth half the mark for the entire subject and panic induced reflux pain notwithstanding.

and to think, before i had a blog i used to just waste time by tossing off while listening to PJ Harvey records performing volunteer charity work

what I did on my holidays

1) slept in a lot

2) played with the cat

3) bugger all else really

4) pissed off my girlfriend (directly related to above)

procrastination strikes again

yeah yeah, another blog the world doesn’t need….

so why? well there are only so many hours i can waste playing free cell and i could/should be studying or preparing for the wedding or something equally useful but the procrastination bug is biting hard tonight.

don’t know what i will use this for yet or how often i will update it (i expect it will be sporadic), will have to see how it goes and what washes up on the shore. Jerusha has already claimed a regular spot to spout off as she sees fit. i could suggest she start her own blog but that would probably cut out a lot of my prospective content…

cheers,
michael

ps – thanks to J for suggesting the name of this blog