Just a few Friday morning meanderings...

• October's been a slow month on the blog. There's been work and school and I've been trying to keep up between the two, but it ain't working so far. This weekend is going to be all about rest and relaxation -- I bought some games for the Xbox (Beyond Good and Evil, Forza Motorsports and Guilty Gear X2) and DS (Contact and Magical Starsign) and will be doing nothing this weekend but chilling out, eating pizza, drinking beer and gettin' some much needed R&R on.
• Speaking of school, it's been going great thus far. I got an A in my Advanced Telecommunications class (which included pulling a 10+ page paper out of nowhere) and my next class coming up is Managerial Statistics. It should be a walk in the park.
• RJ Helton from the first season of American Idol came out of the closet this week. In other news, water's wet, fire can burn you and fat meat is greasy.
• One thing I've been doing lately is listening to a LOT of podcasts. I'm a pretty captive audience at work, so I've been downloading and listening to some shows and trying to get a feel for the genre and see what I like and don't like so I can retool my own little podcast and make it better. One thing I'll probably definitely do is make them shorter. I found myself tuning out to podcasts that were longer than 20-25 minutes, and I can imagine people tuning out to mine when I just ramble on with no discernible end. Second, I'm going to try my hand at scripting some podcasts. I found from the last podcast I did that my delivery was much smoother and paced and wasn't full of "umms" and "ahhs" like when I'm just shooting from the hip. Scripting would also help keep the 'casts at a decent length for listening. Third, I might start the interview thing back up -- I'm not 100% sure on that yet though. Ultimately, I'd like the podcasts to sort of be a go-to resource for the weekly update in Black gay goings-on, but I'd be content just to get comments and e-mail about them.
• Where in the hell is Bernard Bradshaw? Sex and the Second City has been a straight-up ghost town for over a month now.
• I'm going to be on vacation from November 10-15, so posting will probably be light next month also. But who knows? I'll take plenty of pictures, I will be in a hotel room, and yes Virginia, THIS IS A REAL VACATION. Lord knows I need it.
• It's homecoming weekend at Morehouse...I might head on down to the ol' alma mater and see what I can see, but I highly doubt it.
• I was chatting with some random boy online and he appeared to be flabbergasted that I was single. Honestly, I've given up on the entire enterprise of meeting a man for intimate companionship or anything further. Call me a cynic -- I don't care. My time and energy can be spent on much more creative and fruitful outlets than running behind some snot-nosed man. They aren't checking for me down here anyway, so that just makes my job easier. Although with the seasons changing, it would be nice to nest with a dude. Que sera sera....
• I finally found out the reasons why The Snobbers have been so bitchy at work (as well as the general reason why everyone's been so fucking nasty since I've started). What, you think I'm gonna tell you now? You gotta tune in for this weekend's podcast for that bit of juicy info! I know...I'm such a tease.