January

January hasn't quite gone to plan so far but I've been reasonably productive in-between avoiding every responsibility I have. The original plan was to record everything this month for my EP project. Whilst that may have been too much to ask, I have also become quite lazy. I can't pin point when it started but it was at the start of the month. I think There have been a total of two, maybe three days where I have been up and about before 12 noon. I've been oversleeping and feeling rather tired from it even though I'm not doing anything. Despite this, I've been itching to go to the gym but still haven't. One good thing is that I have managed to lose a small amount of weight that I gained over Christmas but there is still plenty more that needs to go before I feel fully comfortable with myself again.

I got my grades back on Monday. The weeks before that I had almost convinced myself that I was going to get a referral for one of my modules but turns out I've passed it so thats a bonus. In fact, I passed everything from last semester so that is something to be proud about, that I have survived thus far. 55% and 75%. I'm reasonably happy with that too. I'm especially happy with 75% for my recording module since to say it was meant to be group work, there were a few times when it felt like it was just me doing all the work. It was a hinder at the time as it meant it took longer to set up sometimes but it meant that I got to engage with it all more and I feel like I've actually taken a lot from it. We went out for a meal for dads Birthday last week, the same day I got my grades so I delivered the news there and then. We just went to the festival and then gave Dad his presents the next day, on his actual birthday.

It's been a strange evening tonight, I had my first go at faking what I do. I had a band in the studio to record a music video of which they had already recorded the music so was just in-essence playing along. It was a bit weird, but comfortable. I didn't have to do much and that was probably the weirdest part, in fact I probably made more work for myself than I had to.

I've been playing guitar late tonight and learning the solo from the song "Jane" by The Waking Hours. It's probably the most therapeutic thing I've done in a while. I got another guitar about two weeks ago, another Washburn but I think even after giving it the TLC it very much needed, I still favour my MG-47. More for reliability than anything, I really prefer the neck on my new KC-40V.

I must add that I'm really looking forward to the Live Performance module this year, but that could change once I'm sorted into groups. I'm open for anything, guitar or bass and not too fussed on genre and I'm just excited to rehearse and perform again. There will still other things I'll have to focus on, like the recording of my album that I've been neglecting and a small music business research project but actually when I think about it, it seems pretty short. This either means I'm know what I need to know and maybe am finding it somewhat easy or it's just an oversight. No doubt, I will find out soon enough when I start to panic about deadlines being close.