Above is a travel video (or vlog, if you prefer) which lasts not much longer than about five minutes, and despite that it took me many hours of the day to create it. When I finally managed to upload it to YouTube, it was about two A.M. here, and the feeling is bittersweet. I should feel a sense of accomplishment because now I have something to show for all that hard work, instead of nothing which I thought I'd have because for a while there Windows Movie Maker was failing me so horribly. Making this video was such a constant rollercoaster, propelling me between the highs of "Hey, I might actually be making something funny and enjoyable" and "I feel so stupid filming myself talking, how do people like Alex and Charlie do this all the time?" or "Am I ever going to get this horrible program to work?"
At the beginning of this day I naively thought that this new vlog would be one of several semi-productive tasks that I might accomplish today. For instance, I fully intended to write a fuller, more legitimate blog entry, probably about how I lined up my new summer job despite being in a different country or (speaking of strikes, as in the video above) the teachers' strike that I've failed to mention in all of my rants and raves about how few times I actually had to go to class during my semester here. I also have loads of pictures from Wales, as well as a small handful of photos from stupid Manchester, that I've managed to edit but not to put up on Facebook yet, which sounds like it should take no time at all, except I made a pact with myself a long time ago that I would caption every picture I put online and for some reason I feel bound to that vow. Now it's well after two in the morning and I still haven't packed for my next big trip. Tomorrow I'm going to Stirling to stay with Dana because tomorrow morning we're both traveling to Edinburgh, where we're flying out to Brussels, staying there two nights, then taking a train to Cologne, one night there, followed by an extremely long train ride to Prague, my final big European destination, where we're staying a total of four nights. I've only just started to look into online travel guides that might tell us what to see and do in these cities, and tomorrow I have to print out loads of boarding passes, reservations, maps, etc. Classes and exams may be over until the fall, but the busy work never seems to end.
That's all I've got for you right now, and for a while actually, because of the aforementioned week-long trip. After that I'll have only two days left in Glasgow before I fly back home on the 29th. Hopefully I'll have time to write again within that narrow window, in between shifts of packing up all of my present belongings. If not, then the next time I talk to you I'll be stateside. In lieu of more textual ramblings, I hope you've enjoyed the video embedded above, and I encourage you to check out the previous three travel videos on my YouTube channel. Alright, enough self-promotion. Good night.
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