Nine.

 Man do I have some work to catch up on. Now that I feel genuinely better I feel like i dug myself a hole when I was in that bad mental state and now I've got to grab some climbing gear and scale my way out. Honestly I'm okay with it though. My professors have been incredibly thankful for me and I will always be grateful for that. Right now I'm just ready to buckle down and get things moving on all of the work that I had missed. I finally feel motivated to get going again, and I finally feel like I'm genuinely happy with where I'm at. I just have to catch up to everyone that's all.

Wish me luck

-Finn

Eight

 God was my fall break refreshing or what. I literally slept all weekend and caught up on class work when I was off on Monday and Tuesday. I even made sure that I requested work off a month in advance for that whole weekend so I could just stay home and chill. Over break I ended up finding one of my old childhood bins from when we moved house after my parents got separated and it had, and I'm not exaggerating, $2,000 worth of old Pokémon games in it. When I tell you I was jumping up and down and celebrating, I mean JUMPING. For one thing it was just cool to find my old stuff, but to find it and find out it's worth a huge amount of money I was beside myself. Anyway, I ended up playing some of the old games and I had a rush of old memories fill my head that I hadn't thought about in forever. 

Hope you all discover something that makes you happy this week.

-Finn

Seven.

 It's October and we are nearing fall break. I cannot wait to finally get a break from this school. Frankly I'm getting kind of sick of driving to school every day just for half of my classes to be cancelled once I get there. I just really need a break, I'm just exhausted from work in general. I feel strung out. This is probably going to be a short post because I just need to get some rest. I know it's early but I'm tired and I just need to go home already. Alrighty, see you when we come back!!!

Six.

 Not much new has gone on this week, other than the fact I went to a frat party earlier in the week. Honestly I have to say, isn't really my cup of tea. The people were okay and I managed to have a pretty fun time but the guys were pretty disgusting. A lot of them were very misogynistic and I don't know I guess I'm just not use to being around that crowd but it was definitely a culture shock. I don't drink that much if any so I decided to not drink that night and just kind of vibe. I played a few games and networked with a couple of people there who were musicians. At the end of the night I ended heading back to my buddy's to hang out with him and his girlfriend for a few before I had to go home. All in all it was a pretty eventful night but I don't really think I'll ever be going back there anytime soon.

Five.

 Today I played a show for the first time in Chicago in months. God was it refreshing. When I arrived in Chicago I met all of my old college friends and/or roommates and we drank and had an amazing time before the show. We spoke about all sorts of things, old dumb college stories, what we've been up to recently, and of course music. Recently I found out that one of my friends, Nick, was recently offered a record deal by a label and that is huge. I can't even correctly portray over text how excited I am for his success. he makes Indie Rock music and has been making it since high school so as you can imagine he feels very happy that all of his work is finally paying off. Anyway, my show was at a venue in Boys Town right next to a fake Harold's Chicken (don't ask I have no idea either). The show ended up selling out and getting to see a massive crowd go crazy for the first time in months had me in tears of joy. I love and miss performing and I cannot wait to do it again.

Till next time,

-Finn

Four: Introduction

     Hi all, I'm sorry my first post was such a downer i guess I was just feeling, I don't know... existential? Well anyway, my name is Finn (Finnegan), I'm 21, and I grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana. Ever since I was fourteen I have been making music and working in audio. The first genre I ever made was house music which is essentially clubbing music. Then I moved onto low fidelity hip hop which is essentially just instrumental studying music. Now I've finally arrived on experimental electronic music which I have been making now for about four years (a total of seven years in music). I will sell instrumentals to people for them too write their lyrics over, generally I can produce just about any genre for them. Two years ago I moved to Chicago and paid for my rent through shows and selling music while I went to school for Live Audio Engineering for television. Covid destroyed my living situation up there and I had to return to Valparaiso in Spring of 2021. Now I am attending PNW to collect some business credits before I return to my old school next fall.

Three.

 Sitting here thinking of things to write I've figured I might as well share my daily life to everyone, not necessarily because it's anything incredibly interesting but because I feel like it adds a narrative to the story of myself. I mean that's what a blog is right? Regardless, my life seems kind of monotonous right now. It seems like the same seven or eight things every day. I wake up, eat, drive to school for an hour, arrive, attend classes for two hours, drive an hour home, work on music, and then work a ten hour shift until I go to bed. Rinse and repeat that every day minus school on Friday-Sunday, and you have my full life schedule. Since I live in Valparaiso all of my old friends are in Chicago, and any I make here also live an hour away so it makes meeting people impossible. So without out the ability to make college friends and being stranded from my old ones I'm left alone with my thoughts and working 10 hours a day 7 days a week. I'm tired constantly and I don't think I could get through half the day without an energy drink. I'm the manager at Plato's Closet, by the way, I just now realized I had forgotten to mention that.

            Hope everyone has a wonderful day,

            -Finn