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I've changed my mind. OK, OK, I guess I'm going back on my word. After six months or so of staring at my html revisions and discarded drafts, I haven't done much with Gid.space. Really, no lie, I had true ambitions of making a grandiose portfolio page.. but I suppose there was always a voice in the back of my head, pointing at the evidence: everybody uses site-building templates anyway! Also, I noticed that Blogger lets one edit the HTML rendered in ones blog page.. sooo why not use their awesome framework, and spend my time on less mundane problems as building a profile page? I think I'll use gid.space as a way to possibly host fun web-things where I need absolute control, like a game or app. For now, I'll go back to using this for writing posts.

What's new? Welp, Jessica and I are moving to Arkansas. She will be teaching art foundations at ATU, and I'll be attending as a student of Computer Science. I am so excited to go back to school, I really can't begin to express the joy with words alone. I feel that Comp Sci will allow me to combine all of my distant interests, and produce complete works from the ground up. I'd like to pursue a day-job as a programmer, and flirt with the prospects of getting into the video-game industry. More on this later.

I have some work to do to catch up with my lack of mathematical rigor, so I'll be starting off with Trig, until I'm ready to jump into pre-calc and Calc itself! As a musician who's studied basic signal processing, it will be a relief to finally be able to read equations and proofs. I look forward to the journey.

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