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Started with Seward breakfast, complete with VCCP. For the uninitiated, this includes cold press coffee, vanilla soy milk, and maple syrup. Enjoyed on a beautiful summer morning with good friends on the Seward Cafe patio, it is one of the best things in the whole world.

Since s4 went up to Stillwater, I had the afternoon to myself to get some work done on the horror movie score. yay. So far, so good, though I wish I could work faster. I'm not exactly the world's most prolific composer. It doesn't help that I'm doing more sound design-ish components, in a way... It seems that building mere seconds of a sound more or less from the ground up can take as long or longer than composing a minute or two or more of more straight up music. All relative, i suppose. I like designing, though, so this is an observation rather than a complaint. I guess I tend to work slow when I think I have the time. I worked for almost four months on the four and a half minutes of what is my favorite piece to date. One does not have that luxury for film scores, generally.

I went down to suburbia to have dinner with my Mom and Grandma. Grandma has understandably had a tough time this week. I can't imagine what it's like to lose someone who was a childhood friend and then a partner for over 55 years. I got to hear a lot of stories about my grandparents when they were young from her reminiscence, which is really neat. Makes me wonder if I'd have been friends with them or spent my time in any of the same ways had I grown up when they did. It also makes me sad that she can remember minute details about her life at age 20 with my Grandpa and simultaneously forget three times in 10 minutes that she left her shoes by the front door.

Went over late to

star5's house partially because working on a horror score alone in the house late at night was creepin' me out a little. (At least it's appropriately creepy. :) ) Heard a little more about the trip out west (I reallyreally wanna visit SF) and then we talked about convention stuff, which is coming up far too quickly much like it does every year. Hopefully we will get a sizeable dent made in stuff that needs to be done tomorrow.