Blog of Josh Hall

New songs up on the myspace and new videos on the youtube. I want to get 1 more song on the myspace page soon, so check back. leave comments and ratings on the youtube vid!

http://myspace.com/joshuadavidhall

http://youtube.com/sixf00t4

I’ve been busy, alright!!?  let’s break it down….

Work – the office 2003 project is rolling well.  I don’t think i’ve messed up yet, so i think people are impressed or at least liking my work so far.  I’m also helping out on an unrelated project just for this weekend, flying to philly to help out with support.  Should be awesome exposure and fun since they only expect a few hours of work from us.  There’s also talk of another project to move 5,000 people between all the different offices, so seems like i could be busy for a while, GOOD!

School – B’s so far in the first 2 classes of the semester.  I should be able to at least maintain that for the rest of the 3 weeks.  Then 2 more classes for the second half of the semester, and then FIN!  Bout effing time.  I’m tired of people assuming i’m going for my masters.

Music – Still playing open mics when i have some free time.  I’ve been trying to post new songs to the myspace page, but i just want to get 1 finished before i announce them.  3 new ones have been up for a week, and people are listening, so i’m totally feeling pressure to finish that 1 song!  put some new videos on youtube as well.  Jordan Otto is back in town, and we talk every so often, and I’d really like to get together with him and a few others and jam around.  we’ll see if that ever materializes.

Love – Rachel and I are talking pretty much everyday in one form or another, and i think it’s great.  We went to cedar point 2 weeks ago, but the new roller coaster, the maverick, was closed!  totally dissapointed.  Rachel is coming home this weekend, and i just found out about the flight to philly, and she is totally understanding.  She’s awesome when it comes to compassion.  Sometimes too much though, i’ve told her I wanted her to make really crazy expectations of me that I can’t meet, challenge me basically, and then get really mad at me if i can’t meet them.  she said that was a terrible thing to say…which may very well be true, but i’ve said worse.  🙂

Home – Deirdre’s moved in, Alex is moved in, and the dish washer is running constantly!  those two use a lot of dishes.  Also tore up the front yard this past weekend.  I’ll try to get some photos up here soon.

Play  – Wow, booked a flight to vegas from november 14th – 17th and florida from dec 18th-20th.  Originally, J’aime was going to vegas with dan for a dental conference and i was going to hang out with her, but now that she has the baby, she isn’t going, so it’s just me and dan, and just me when he’s in his conference.  Not sure about why i’m doing that, especially over my birthday, but whatever.  I’m getting too old to care.  25?!?!  WTF.  Florida will be using the time share that Mrs. Marsh (step-grandmother) let me use down in bonita springs.  Rachel and I are going to go down.  Those are the only big vacations planned, but i’d like to go DC at least once more this year, definitely go out to see rachel a couple times, and whever else the road takes me.

how about a small pod like thing with 4 cameras on it, that you mount upside down in the roof of your car where the overhead light usually is.  the cameras would record video of all angles of your car for accidents, police abuse, or anything at all.  It could have a small hard drive on it that records a set number of hours of video, or for a monthly fee, it would upload it to the companies servers where they would archive it and you could search it and stuff through an online interface.

i woke up at 9 o’clock for a 10am calculus recitation. just went about my normal business, nothing out of the norm. got to class about 9:55, and no one was there. then 2 people walked in. and all 3 of us were wondering where everyone was. then 1 guy walks in and sits down and says "did you guys hear what happenned in new york?" we just said no. he said that someone had flown a 747 into the world trade towers. i audibly laughed and said "dude, do you even know how big a 747 is?!?!? there is no way, those are the biggest commercial planes, that is just insane." and he said "well it was one of those planes anyway, maybe a 737 or something." so he lost all credability in my mind by not getting the facts straight. 10:10, our prof showed up, and she said, in her ukranian accent, "go back to your dorms, class is cancelled." and she confirmed that someone had indeed flown a plane into the towers. got back to my dorm, found out that another one had hit. filled my hard drive with 2 hours worth of footage from CNN.  Jackie Mattassa was going to Penn State and her and I were IM’ing back and forth and she said some kid had a heart attack in the commons and died. His parents worked in the towers.

the Bodies exhibition is coming to the carnegie science center october 8th.  If you haven’t heard about it, you need to be a little more cultured.  It’s quite the topic for a few reasons.  The first would just be about the exhibit itself, how remarkable it is to see the human body disected like this in such well preserved fashion.  There’s nothing else like it.  The jenkos saw it down in DC and they said it was amazing.  The second reason it’s been so talked about is the origin of the bodies.  There are criticisms that the bodies are part of an underground Chinese body and organ harvesting community, where people’s bodies are just taken and sold without any paperwork or family notice.  Because there is nothing illegal about how they are obtaining the bodies, they are allowed to say it’s legal, despite how unethical it may seem.  1 lady even resigned her 11 year position at the Carnegie Science Center after it was released that they would be hosting the exhibit.  It is certainly creepy to think that these people did not volunteer their bodies to be used for this purpose.  You can read what the post gazette has about the exhibit here.