Exams, exams and more exams
I’m sure all of my fellow students out there will know what I’m talking about when I say that there are two times of the year that are busier than the rest. Those two times are of course the end of the semesters, and surprise, surprise, this semester is about to end!
As I consider myself a man who stays true to traditions, I of course went into this period severely underprepared and with far too few fellings of pressure and stress. Yet, with two of three exams out of the way, it seems like I’ll get through it with decent results to show for. The last one is on Friday, and after getting through almost half of the curriculum already I’m starting to get a feeling of being overprepared. That can’t be good, or?
After that exam I have a good week off from absolutely everything - No school, no work, nothing on my mind at all. I’ll be spending that week doing absolutely nothing except watching a lot of movies, maybe start following a new TV series (open for suggestions), listening to a lot of music and “working” on online stuff. I just got my “old” (around a year) non-functional TV replaced with a new one which actually works, and it’s great having a working one in my room again.
As for the online work mentioned, it’ll revolve mostly around Silent Sound Waves. Remember that music blog project I’ve been trying to get off the ground for what seems like forever? Well I finally got the ball rolling. I have one great writer on the team already, Matt Sanderlin (see his posts at SSW and his MySpace profile) and we’ve been publishing a few articles per week for the past.
Surprisingly, despite I haven’t had time to do much promotional work yet because of my exams, the site is actually being visited by around 50 - 100 people per day already, mostly thanks to search engines and StumbleUpon. I think that shows that we’re on to something with the concept, and it’s a good foundation to build on once I start doing some actual promotion and link-building. Right now I am talking to two other people about joining the team as well, and I hoping that at least one of them will pull through, as it will put us in a good position when it comes to publishing a new article every day.
The other thing I will be doing is redesigning this blog again. Looking at it, I can’t recall what I was thinking about when I did the current design because I absolutely loathe it. I want something cleaner, simpler and more “blog-like”. I am absolutely in love with the look of this blog, and I will be going for something similar to that. It should be ready for the two year anniversary of this blog (Christmas eve), or hopefully even sooner.
Now I’m off to watch the new episode of House, MD (what a terrific show), listen some more to my latest musical discovery, Bon Iver (not really new, I just discovered him for real recently), sleep a little and then continue with my exam preparations.