Boy, have I been slacking on the blogging front. That'll be my first and only new year's resolution.

So since I last left you, my good people, I was still in UT. And I'm still in UT.

As you may have guessed, nothing much has changed.

I am wrapping up my first year in UT. Can't believe I've been here this long. Er, there. I'm in ID right now 'celebrating' Thanksgiving with my family.

Oh- interesting/exciting/personally fulfilling: I decided to buy a second-hand sewing machine because I wanted to teach myself to make my halloween costume. Granted, I didn't finish it yet still, but it got me on the path, and I'm learning a ton.

So when the world comes apart at the seams, my clothing supply won't.

But really, it's pretty neat to see something come from nothing.

Besides new hobbies acruing jokes from my roommates... another thing of note in the month of October was a sweet party that my friends and I put on for Halloween. Of course, numbers rarely have little to do with the quality of an evening, but I counted it a managerial success considering we had 100 or so people total show up to the party. We also made 10 gallons of caramel popcorn (gluten free, awesome) and 10 gallons of homemade rootbeer.

I ended up needing to make a different costume (I'd spent the entire previous week rushing the one and not finishing) that day. It consisted of a torn-up suit (which matched impeccably- previous to being a zombie, I was a well-dressed stock broker), pale and red makeup, and a half cup or so of fake blood. If you're on facebook, check out my zombie-fied self. Rather scary, I've been told.

Another thing happened last weekend- I had the opportunity to direct and produce (minus the budgetary part- that had been done) a piece for my employer. Got to fly to Sacramento for two days and guide the production, making decisions along the way. And I better give a shout-out to the folks in Sacramento that made my job a dream. They were stellar. And the product will be infinitely better because of them... Can't wait to show the end result. But that is a month or three away, so don't get excited.

The subject of said production is regarding a process called 'indexing' where people ingest and transcribe analog records into a digital format, allowing them to be searchable through a database. This church oriented group was able to index one million names in one month. It was a pretty unbelievable feat. And we recorded a behind the scenes of how they did it. The end product will be for motivating others to use the same tools in similar ways.

Oh, one more thing. A friend of mine started a sweet get-together in SLC. It's a weekly jam session at The Hotel in downtown. You can prepare a number, perform, and have the band back you up. I think it's pretty sweet, and plan to do it one of these weeks. I've gone once, and plan to do attend it again soon. For the record, Taryn Scali is the bomb!