gah.

After much frustration, I have a working copy of Reason (that will likely be upgraded shortly anyway...) I'm going to try to use it as a composition tool in the absence of my sampler, which new reports claim may be out of service for another four months. Ugh.

Makes me feel amazingly frustrated about getting projects done to have one of my primary tools break severely - twice - in such short a time, and to likely have it out of service for the better part of a year. They don't leave your *car* sitting in the shop four-eight months, why my keyboard? It's worth more to me than my car by quite a shot in more ways than one. This doesn't seem weird to me, but I guess it probably is. I also thought that, around the time it's scheduled to come back repaired for an as of yet unknown sum of money, I'll inconveniently be putting all my extra cash into the trip to Burning Man. Hate that feeling of the universe being against you; also have the nagging recognition of such feelings as self-indulgent wallowing when there're people with Real Problems. A lot of them in Iraq. Anyway.

Reason works; I'm glad.

I guess no one else knows if I should go to grad school either, eh? ;)
Oh well.