November 25th, 2009|2:38am.
So last week I finished up another trimester in for my masters program. This was my first terms as a full time student, and I must admit it was a bit more demanding. There were quite a few late nights and a great deal of reading, but I think it went pretty well. So now what?
Well, school doesn't start again until the beginning of January, so my schedule's opened up a bit. I'll be picking up a few extra hours at work, as it sounds like they've got plenty of projects that they need me for. This seems like an OK idea, what with tuition and everything. An old high school buddy of mine hired me to do the website for his company, so I'll be working on that a bit as well (hopefully getting it launched before XMas).
I've also picked up work on GIGS again. I just like this idea a lot and I'd really like to see it get some use. I'm working on a parser library in PHP right now. I need to finish up documenting the specs for the format and style the GIGS site a bit. Once I have something that's ready for people to use, I need to figure out how to get musicians and music sites to start using it, but I guess I'll just worry about that later. I have quite a few more ideas to go along with this format and hopefully I can see them come to fruition.
Finally, I'm going to be spending some much needed time promoting the new American Autumn record. We're really close to having things squared away for iTunes, which will be a lot of fun. It's exciting to have record that you really want to push out to people, so there's lots of stuff to do in that process (talking to fans online, submitting to labels, radio stations, zines, blogs, fliering, setting up promotions, etc). I couldn't do this for anybody else's band, but I love doing it for my own stuff.
I guess this time off of school will still be pretty busy. I really want to get a ski/snowboard trip together before Xmas, too, so let's find a good day for that!
Maybe we should take December 18th off, and head up to Cascade bright and early!