TheLeong.com

I know my domain name hasn’t been re-registered yet (why is it taking so long, Supreme Server.com??), I figured I’d write a quick entry. You can all read it when my website actually works again. I took Alicia’s advice and pretty much didn’t do any IUSTV stuff all day. In fact, to recover from the past week (or two), I didn’t do anything all day. I slept in until around 1PM, surfed the internet for hours, watched some TV, ate an entire Pizza Express Big Ten in two sittings, took a nap, and didn’t even leave my apartment except about an hour ago to take out some trash and get some books out of my car. I have a big group project I need to work on before I meet with my group at 10AM tomorrow. This may very well be the first all-nighter for schoolwork on a Saturday night ever.

So yeah, my idea. I’m going to make a sort of promotional video-type thing, showing behind-the-scenes type stuff at IUSTV. Working title is Inside IUSTV. I’m going to start with (a pilot, in a sense) the new Read studios Open House, and just pretty much show it off to everyone in a 22 minute special. Originally when I was thinking to myself about this (lying on the futon and watching Fresh Prince), it was just going to be a one-shot video, giving a tour of the new digs, interviewing people, etc. Then I realized that everything I wanted to put in it and do, such as interview every Exec and Producer, every show host/anchor, etc, would take way too long to make an attention-holding show. SO, I decided, I am going to do this first one and see how it goes, and if it works well, I will do one for a bunch of other shows. I figure I can put these out every month at the least, possibly more. I will take care of most of it myself, but will definitely get other people to help me out. This will give me a good chance to show off the station, get more (hopefully) people to want to work at IUSTV, and also take care of my editing bug that hasn’t been satisfied in months.

With all the other stuff I’m doing, if I can put out a show monthly or bi-weekly at the station, maybe others will wake up and say “Why can Anthony do it pretty much by himself, but our team of 15 can’t?” Not wanting to sound arrogant, but I think I can do it. And yes I realize this might be easier to make then, say, an episode of Unlocked, it will be fun and that’s the main reason I want to make it. I can take, for example, a DVD of the Inside IUSTV: Open House at Read, home over winter break (yes, I am planning on getting it done by then), and show it off to people at home. I’ll start planning this soon, but for now I have to work on this marketing project for class…

No one is going to read this post for a day or two, but oh well. I remembered to renew my host back in September (stores my files and this site), however I forgot to renew the domain name (the thing that points aleong.com to my stuff). So, I’m currently waiting for my re-registration of the domain name to go through. Hopefully I should have it back in another day or two, and the site will be good as new. As long as some asshole didn’t backorder aleong.com. Seriously, who else but me would use this address? (OK, there are a lot of A Leongs out there; shut up).

I’m now awake, got up at 6:30AM, about 2.5 hours later than I planned. In the next 10 hours, I have to start and finish a 5 page paper (ironically, about blogs), study for a test, do 2 phone interviews, go to a professors office hours, have a group meeting, and also write up a bunch of stuff for that group meeting. I was going to work last night when I got home, but I got lazy then tired, and went to sleep at like 2. I was gonna wake up at 4 and get to work, but we all know how that goes…

I’m finally getting around to organizing the first batch of pictures from this summer trip. It’s kind of weird; I haven’t been taking a lot of pictures, since I honestly haven’t been doing anything super out of the ordinary. Also, I take pictures either with my usual 3.2 megapixel Fuji FinePix camera, which I’ve always been using, or now with my 2 megapixel Docomo cell phone. See if you can see the difference, or tell which pictures were shot with which camera.

There are 2 pages: 1 of stuff from the first few weeks of being here, the other of just Kamakura stuff.

Most likely, this page/blog won’t be updated until around Christmas or the 26th. I’m trying to finish up the last few days here in Japan… it’s a weird feeling, packing up everything and leaving the country. Totally different from going 4 hours away to go to school in Indiana. Anyways, that’s all for now. If you’re in St. Louis, I’ll be there for a week or so, so let’s hang out.

Well, although I have my history midterm paper due tomorrow, I decided to waste my entire evening doing other stuff. Here’s a wrapup of what I did:

1) added a bunch of new pictures (including Nagano) to the pictures page

2) made a claw out of aluminum foil for my left hand (for the belated IES Halloween Party tomorrow night)

3) read some of the first volume of GTO manga

4) did laundry

Oh, but it’s OK. My History of Tokyo midterm paper isn’t as bad as it may sound. In fact, it’s ridiculously easy. I have to write a 2 page (double spaced) OPINION paper on why some people consider history to be useless. Oh man, let the BSing begin. Hope you enjoy the new pictures I put up. It wouldn’t have taken so long if I hadn’t been a moron and not realized that I messed up the caps in some of my HTML code (although I use Dreamweaver for the bulk of it). Ah well, it all works now…

Well I finally uploaded some pictures. Click on “Pictures” to the left there. 1 gallery of general Japan pics, the other is from the Tokyo Game Show.