Spring Break '09

And not quite the conventional way of spending it, either! Instead of hitting the beaches or going to someplace warm, Candice and I are packing up her car tonight and heading up to Dallas where the high temperature is expected at sixty-eight degrees and we might be facing some chilly rainfall. She prefers to drive in the wee hours of the early morning, so we're aiming for a three a.m. departure time, and I think that might actually end up happening. Everything is just about ready to go, and I only need to decide if I should lighten my duffel bag by one pair of shoes or not. The plus? I'll have a more comfortable pair of flats to shuffle around in. The down side? Heavier duffel bag. But at the same time, Candice's car has plenty of room in it so I think I'll end up erring on the side of caution and going on the heavier side.

Yes, I am that much of a girl, thank you for asking!

I'm in my night class right now, and we're discussing Apple's wonderful piece of software known as Compressor and all of the lovely things it can do and get away with. I love Compressor - I'm not really sure where I'd be in my realm of editing without it. Converting that much Doctor Who from .avi format to .mov would not have been easy without it. Granted, there are other ways of doing that but Compressor gives a nice, crisp output and I'd rather go with something like that instead of cutting corners and have to worry about the output. Compressor is also going to offer an option in the near future to output to Blu Ray format, and that makes the geeky part of my heart swell up. I still lack a Blu Ray player and television that will play that kind of format but I think it's only a matter of time before I change that up and join the higher definition realm.

I really am looking forward to this weekend. The trip is coming at an excellent time, with midterms nothing other than a memory and an overall sense of accomplishment in my heart because that's what comes with feeling a job has been well done. I won't know the result of my law and ethics test until after the break, but I walked away from it happier than I thought I would feel so that has to be a definite plus.

On another note, Janine and I think that we should try and bottle up our professor's energy. This man has a great personality, and he's just so full of life. Every time I get to take one of his classes I feel lucky for the chance. He teaches us so much, and he really cares about what he's teaching. That's hard to come by in college.

I think I'll go ahead and close this out here. More about the trip will be coming soon!