Jamming. I've been playing music almost every day and it's fucking awesome. I play the keyboard/piano, and I finally feel like a musician and not just someone who plays.

Here's my baby:

It gives me more joy than anything else in the world. It goes through this:

...and sounds like pure sex. I've got a wah pedal I put the sound through when I want things to get out-of-control funky.

I'm currently working on two projects:

One of them is a blues-rock band, who I pretty much instantly clicked with. After a couple weeks of practicing they told me they wanted me to play shows with them, and now a month and a half later we'll have played five. We had an awesome show last Saturday and we killed it--I still feel a positive afterglow from that. This coming Saturday we've got two shows: one's at noon, and one's at 7PM. I've got an hour and a half of work in between (I'm currently a tutor) but I can swing it. Just have to throw on a dress shirt and put on my professional face for a minute.

The other project is a twice-a-week jam with a couple old friends and a couple new ones. This group's music is a bit more complex, with less 1-4-5 and more complex progressions and lyrics. My friend has transformed his basement into a de facto recording studio and we've been recording twice a week. It's really coming together, too. Within the next couple months we should have enough material to put together an album, and my friend wants to start playing shows as well.

I really feel like I've got an opportunity to put something amazing out there with some amazing people, and I'm going to take full advantage of it. Bullshit career plans can wait.