Monday morning math went by quickly today. After years of high school algebra practice, I seem to be grasping the concept of factoring trinomials. I swear I spent 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade doing the the same problems but using different textbooks. Now I have a chance to do all the once again, Monday mornings, eight-forty am.

Statistics has actually gotten to be educational (somewhat). Last week was actually the first time in my life that I really grasped standard deviation. Yay!

Despite my excelling math skills, I may not be able to balance my checkbook this month. All this invoice sending, guitar buying, amp selling, and wire transfers has me confused. All three papers I sold pictures to at the end of last month have said payment is being processed. No idea what that really means. My interpretation is that "payment is being processed" means the editor sits on my check until I send him enough emails.

Tomorrow I have a meeting at Starbucks with Inah, the Filapina-Spanish fashion student who contacted me about taking the pictures for her soon-to-be-launched advertising campaign for her new hip-hop clothing line. This job sounds like it should be interesting at least. The guy I sold my amp to within one night, P'Yu, called me up today to say he has a factory that wants me to come and take photos for promotional material. That sounds less interesting than the clothing line launch but I'll need to pay for this new guitar somehow.

Oops. Yeah.. My 1.5 year loan of a friends guitar is about up. I'll return it to her in the US next month and pickup my new guitar in Columbus. It was fairly cheap, got great reviews, was recommended to me by a few producers at Grammy, and is twice as expensive here as it is in the US -_-. $350 for the guitar and the hard case, it works and it's very cheap.

The next step is something to play/record through. This part isn't so cheap. If things go bad I can always sell here, break even and pay for the hassle of bringing it over. Zoom's new effects pedal is the most economical and won't break within a year. I can record with it, I can send it through amps, and I can play with headphones in my room. Sold. More money here ($290 vs. $250 in the US), but a month's worth of practice before leaving seems worth the difference. I'll think I'll head over to Bangkapi and listen to it again tomorrow, after the meeting at 2pm.

P'Ekk and I will be practicing/writing guitar parts after school/work three times a week until I get close to finals at the end of the month. At that point I need to rest and review notes.

I'm serious about resting and reviewing. Last year I didn't take that part so seriously and found myself crawling out of the last final.

I'll post again tomorrow night.