Fun with observations, or how the pre-practicum sucked away my winter break

Well it's been a good few weeks since I posted my Amp of Glory. I've been playing a lot, picking up new riffs and fine-tuning my sound, etc. In the off-time I've picked up a Boss Metal Zone pedal in pristine condition at less than half price (yay ebay) and the difference is stunning. As I told my brother, it can sound like Satan himself is riffing when you turn up the crunch on that thing.

Other than that, I'm sorry to say the fun has gone down due to schoolish obligations (hence the title). We have to spend SEVENTY FIVE HOURS observing middle and high school classes over winter break. Come on now. That's overkill. We can call 20 of that out of our last semester's observations, which I'm doing whether or not I actually spent 20 hours in schools. The bright side of that is that I got to spend a good chunk of time with Mr. Mann (high school Latin teacher) and will be spending a day with Mrs. Webb (6th grade English... she rocks!).

But all has not been lost. I've been using the out-of-school time to catch up on 24 (aka the best show ever). I'd seen seasons 1 and 2, we have DVDs up through season 5. I'm now caught up and can't wait for the new one (starts tonight, but I can't watch it)! Jack Bauer is my hero. If you haven't seen it, watch it. No show in history is as addictive. I get almost no sleep when it's 24 watching time.

And now here I sit putting all my CDs on my computer (I had only done select tracks for most because of lower hard drive space back when I first went off to college, time to rectify that).

I think I'm the only person on earth (or at least in the USA) who owns either a) all five Spin Doctors albums (remember "Two Princes"? Yeeeeeeeah!) or b) more than five Blue Oyster Cult albums (I own eight... ten if you count the 2 hits CDs).

Song of the night is "Bad Horsie" by Steve Vai. Oh that guitar. It's heavy heaven.