Night Owl

It's only 8:33 and I feel like I'm going to fall over in my chair and fall asleep. I went to sleep last night at about 3:30 am, and woke up at 10:30 so I should feel rested since that's about my usual. Maybe it was the beautiful rain that came today and made me sleepy. I admit, I love the rain in all its wonder and glory, but it takes the energy right out of me. So tonight, I might do some homework, definitely play some guitar, and hit the hay maybe around 9:30. But we'll see what happens, usually when I say that I get to bed around 2.

I recorded a song last night, my romantic song that I'm calling Waltz No. 1. The song doesn't have a chorus or a real catchy line in it, it's all very metaphorical, so the name will probably stay. I'm very happy with it though, a simple recording with just two tracks; my guitar and my voice. I'm going to toy around with it some more before I put it up because I want to see if I can add anything else to it. Tried to add a violin track and that just ended horribly and I gave up. I have my guitar lesson tomorrow and I'm also teaching tomorrow. And this entry just sounds very choppy because I'm not really thinking straight. OH but Brittney and I played on the Fort Lauderdale boardwalk again just yesterday and made $22 to split between us and we only played for a little over two hours. Towards the end, I started playing a two-chord progression on my guitar and we just sang for about 20 minutes about the people walking by and about some of the people who stopped to listen. We got some good money on that song and it was way fun! And last night I went to a bonfire with three of my friends, one of them being a new friend who I'd just met named Gio. He graduated from Cypress a few years ago, but he's a great writer and he sings and plays guitar. We each took turns giving him three topics to freestyle about and he'd freestyle sing and play for about 4 minutes without even a stutter. Probably the most interesting one that he sang for us was when we gave him the topics "One-legged prostitute, a monkey, and a bungee cord". That was a twisted one, but someone who can do what he can do is extremely talented and it's certainly a gift. On that note, go listen to some Eminem. He's another very talented artist, and love him or hate him, he's one of the only rappers I can stand and he's worked way harder than many people to get where he is today.