It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you, without a dope beat to step to...

Refer to title. Yes, I am quoting Timbaland. What of it? So why has it been so effing long? Because simply, I gained too much ambition and lost too much motivation. I realized I had to go hard or go home and when I finally did, BAM, internship at Bite TV. I'm absolutely loving it there, and I've made a tonne of connections, but it's usually only for two days out of the week. The other 5...well the other 5 are too much like today was. Boring, unambitious, and inevitably unproductive. I found something worth doing, and stopped doing everything else. It aint healthy. Not just on the job front, but life in general. First thing's first, I re-cut my editing reel and I'm learning some Adobe After Effects to make myself more marketable...and that all kinda factors in to the bigger picture. That, is just one of the TEN things that I am to do for those 5 days that I just sit around. Okay, every now and then, there will be days when I'm not working, that I'll be out and about, but besides those...

You may recall in a much earlier blog post, when I was still in school that I had a countdown to the real world on my whiteboard saying "Life begins in 106 days" or something to that effect. Inevitably, I realized that was depressing, so I erased it. "What was I even scared of?" I thought to myself. But now I'm on another whiteboard kick, and this one, rather than being DE-structive is gonna be PRO-ductive...




I am to do at least half of these TEN things (for argument's sake, let's say 4 or 5) every day that I would otherwise be sulking around in boredom, each one for an hour or so, and if I do 6 or more, I will reward myself...perhaps with some mindless fun, like video games...or something sweet like a smoothie.

- Learn some more After Effects
- Edit something or cut together another Music Mashup
- Do some homework on a video assignment from my internship
- Read! (Because the only time I've been reading otherwise is on commutes on those internship days)
- Write! Work on a novel I started during last year's NaNoWriMo or just write something new.
- Work on a setlist for my next show whenever the hell it may be, or at least play some guitar and maybe learn a new song or two, record something, etc.
- Explore! Find a park or field nearby, or if I'm more mobile, go to a part of the city I don't frequent and just roam around, get some fresh air! (This one will be better and include bike riding once the weather finally starts warming up.)
- Work on what I call "Notebook Congregationals" and write some free-form poetry, stream of consciousness, prose and rhymes, write while listening to music, and "word doodle." Spend an hour with my notebook. =)
- Exercise! For god's sake I NEED to get back into my routine. (Again this will be easier when the weather is better, tennis basketball and biking will all factor in somehow.)
- Blog! What I'm doing right now. If I were starting this little project today, I would get point for it (because with things like blogging I suppose it would work more on a point basis because I can't necessarily blog for an hour. Unless I include reading other blogs...learning stuff. Hmmm.)

I'm Demetri Martinizing my life, and anyone who's seen "If I" will know exactly what I mean by that (if you haven't seen it I VERY HIGHLY recommend it.)

So that's that. I'll call it Project Productive...or something like that. Doesn't really need to have a name, as long as it WORKS! And all I need to do to make that happen, is follow through. Wish me luck!

Peace and love and everything in between,
Joseph Michael Chammas