Well, I think this whole thing is starting to work. I'm starting to feel an urge to be productive. I just want to do stuff. Today wasn't the most successful day but progress is definitely being made. Creatively, I finished a remix that I've been trying to get done for months (aside from mixdown - I despise mixdown) and I sketched out two beats. I don't really like the sonic qualities of either beat but I'm reasonably sure that's just because they're unmixed. Patternwise, one of them is pretty solid and the other fucking rules. It's this skittery four-bar Venetian Snares sort of beat laid over a typical kind of ghetto groove. One of the things I really wanted to implement when I started to do this hip hop was kind of drum'n'bass/drill/breakcore rhythms so it's really satisfying to have one at my disposal. Still needs refinement but it's sounding awesome.
Outside of the creative stuff, I maintained the domestic stuff and I did the exercise. Crucially, I also looked at two jobs. One of them I can't apply for just yet because I need to finetune my resume and my references but the other I plan to tackle tomorrow. Oh yeah, and on the exercise front, I finally managed to hit the next level of one of my fitness routines. When I started, the directive was to do:
20 x Alternating Lunges
15 x Box Jumps (these made me cry)
10 x Push-Ups
20 x One Leg Deadlifts
15 x Hip Touches
10 x Dips
20 x Step-Ups
15 x Bench Squats
10 x Arm/Leg Sit-Ups
Five times in half an hour. I didn't do that. I managed three. For a long time, I've been stuck on four. Tonight, I did five - and it wasn't that big a thang. I think it might actually mean it's time for me to move onto another form of exercise. The usual ones are no longer as demanding. Fortunately, tomorrow I take my first stab at swimming. This kind of scares me. Swimming is hardcore.
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