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It’s that time of the year

Finals week is upon us and my calendar hasn’t seen a blank second. My last one is Friday at 10:15…ugh.

I’m Zach – The First Snow

I’m Zach – First Snow from Zach on Vimeo.

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Thirsty Thursday

I’m sick

Realization trailer

For my Electronic Field Production class I have been working on a short film. My friend Zach Griffin wrote the story and we’ve been shooting since early November. Here is your first look.

Realization – Trailer 1 from Zach on Vimeo.

4: I hate haircuts

3: 83 degrees on October 14?

Despite having a test and a project due today nothing could get me down when it was this beautiful outside.

An entry a day

I have sucked at blogging lately and its depressing. But today I pledge to you that I will write an entry a day. I’m started it yesterday with this video. It could be a little blurb like this post, a deep thought, a video or whatever I want but I guarantee something will here everyday.

Mid-Summer Goals

I know it is already July 16, but there are still a few things I want to before its all over.

• READ! - I started reading a great book about Jim Palmer and Earl Weaver over my vacation in North Carolina. It is an awesome read, but I’m just a bad book reader. I want to finish it soon and I have a few other books I would like to read before I go back to school.
• Modify my car – So far I have tinted the windows and added an antenna and a German plate to my 04 Passat. I’ve got lots of ideas of what is next, I just need to financially be able to do make them all happen. There is a VW Show in York, PA on August 2nd that I plan to attend and a huge show on September 28 in Ocean City that I would like to go to.
• Save some cash - This might conflict with my second goal, but I would like to put away some money for the school year. So far I have been pretty good about saving, I just need to continue it.
• Learn to cook - When I first moved into my apartment I ate horribly, because I had never cooked a decent meal in my life. It was frozen burritos and canned foods for quite some time. It drove me crazy. So I have been learning to cook a few little things as I go and I hope to keep that going. I make pretty good chicken quesadillas, chicken tacos, and have even baked cookies. I don’t expect to be an expert, I just want to have a good foundation of meals for the next school year.
• Keep zamwi moving – I have a lot of goals for this blog. It took a bit of time off but I want to make sure that does not happen anymore. I would like to do more video work on the site, because that is where the internet is moving and an area that I love. I want to try and post good information as well as keeping my friends who are all over the world updated with what is going on in my life.
• Document – I bought a Flip camera about a month ago just for fun. I have been carrying it with me everywhere and it has become a part of my day. I want to film some of the exciting parts of my life and share them right here.
• Take advantage of every free second – I stay up late and sleep in, but I want to make sure that any free time I have I take advantage of. So far I’ve been to North Carolina, New York City, Washington D.C., and Hershey Park twice. I’d say I’m off to a good start.

So that’s where I am. I’ll check back at the end of August to see how I did.

What do you want to do with the rest of your summer?

A late Tuesday night…

I’ve been all over the place the past couple days. And haven’t slept a bit.

I just can’t turn away from the All Star Game though. Now its tied in the bottom of the 14th 3-3 and the Orioles George Sherrill has pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings, which is crazy for a closer. (MVP ?)

I’d love to see the A.L. win, but my 10 hours of sleep in the past 2 days is really starting to catch up to me.

By the way my ast day of break is tomorrow, I think I’m going to take it easy…but I’ll get back to you for sure for confirmation.

Update: The AL just won 4-3.

All Star Break part 2

I talked this morning about my 3 day break from work and taking full advantage of my time off. Today I went to New York City, where I was surrounded by Yankees fans who were all there for the homerun derby.

Major League Basebal had stuff all over the city, two story buses full of screaming fans were pretty common. Naturally, I hit Time Square and a few of the shops on Fifth Avenue.

My view of Time Square – July 14, 2008

I could not believe that wait for the new iPhone at Apple’s legendary cube store. There must have been 300 people waiting outside to buy and activate the 3G iPhone. Crazy.

I also took an NBC tour, which I have been wanting to do since my first trip to New York. I got to see the Saturday Night Live Studio, a few control rooms, and Brian Williams set for the NBC Nightly News. Very big studios, lots of nice equipment.

I decided to continue my break tomorrow with another trip to Hershey Park. As always you can catch me on twitter throughout the day!

All Star Break

As I’m sure many of you know the next 3 days in Major League Baseball include the Homerun Derby and All Star Game.

That means that I have 3 (yes 3) days off of work. I plan on taking full advantage of these days. I have had vacation earlier this year, but besides that trip this will be my longest break from work until September 30. In fact I have only 7 days off after the All Star Break.

I was in Hershey Park the other day, but tomorrow I begin with New York City, where I plan on hitting the typical tourist spots. I definitely want to do an NBC tour this time around at the big apple.

I’ll be texting updates to twitter all day, so stay tuned for day one of the All Star Break.