Chicken Soup For the Paranoid Soul

(and now for a copy-and-paste of my video description on YouTube)

 Hello, everyone! You might be thinking to yourself, "Wow, what an ungrateful person! Rootsays spends half a video plugging her and she doesn't even mention it!" The truth is, I filmed an entire video just for that purpose (filmed it twice, actually), but when I was almost done editing it, my editing software crashed and now appears to be broken for good. It's actually quite fortunate that this video was already saved to my computer when it happened.

Basically, the lost video said three things:
1) Rootberry/Rootsays: totally awesome. (for all 16 of you who were subscribers before they/he sent the rest of you over, http://www.youtube.com/rootberry and http://www.youtube.com/rootsays
2) Thank you to everyone who subscribed, particularly those who went from my channel to blkfrhwk's and then subscribed to her. Blkfrhwk a.k.a. Jude was the first person to, uh, "discover" me on YouTube and has been an incredibly supportive and awesome friend ever since. Check her out if you haven't already: http://www.youtube.com/blkfrhwk
3) The promised "coolest responses for ways to die": Mister Flask: teleporter accident CallieLauren: flying a spaceship into a black hole DampRabbitVideo: being hit by a meteor Zjeli: having a heart attack onto the letter k (my Cliff's notes version)

Anyway, I don't know how long it's going to be until I get my new editing software, but despite that problem and all the homework I'm about to get slammed with, I'll be back as soon as I have any time to give.

P.S. Bet you five imaginary dollars that while they were watching the video, my parents were shaking their heads and thinking about how I was talking too fast.

P.P.S. For those of you sharp-eyed people who noticed a slight audio desync in certain areas, that was the fault of my now-dead editing software. I spent hours fixing as much of it as I could stand.

P.P.P.S. I don't want any debates about the definition of irony.

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And now for exclusive content!  Which boils down to -  ARG EDITING PROGRAM ARG.  Before it crashed, the editing software gave me another problem - when it imported a clip, it gradually desynced the audio and the video over time.  Identifying, learning how to fix, and fixing the problem ate up about a day of my weekend.  And right after I learned how to drive the metaphorical clunker, it died on me.  Oh well.  C'est la vie.

How I want to Die (as the coolest grandma ever)

7/11 is good for more than Big Gulps.

Sons of Admirals "Here Comes My Baby": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR5wKL...

Band Members:

Charlie McDonnell: http://www.youtube.com/user/charlieis...

Alex Day: http://www.youtube.com/user/nerimon?b...

Tom Milsom: http://www.youtube.com/user/hexachordal

Eddplant: http://www.youtube.com/user/eddplant?...

How to look suspicious at night.

Because I felt like it, that's why. I love how much accidental innuendo snuck into my discussion of nerds. And no, I really couldn't see where I was going. It was a very interesting experience, particularly when a whole herd of cars drove past multiple times. I have never seen so many cars in this area in my life. It's like they knew I was outside doing something stupid.

I mentioned someone named Toby in this video. He's a really fun vlogger and you should check out his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TobyTurner

I feel so weird linking to him like that because he's the famous vlogger and I'm just a young rapscallion with a camera, but if I know my audience (and I do know 90% of you personally), you probably have no idea who he is.

Time Travel

New video, new understanding of how to make YouTube HD work for me, new room to film in.  More videos will be coming soon.  I'm looking forward to not having to put a framing device in again, but hey, I like this one.  Also, why does dry ice only come around when you have no idea what to do with it?

It's been a while!

Hey everyone!  I'm not dead, but classes are slowly blinding me with science (I see what I did there).  I have four videos all filmed up (well, one was pretty extemporaneous and it might get re-filmed to increase transmission of what I wanted to say and decrease transmission of emo) and I'm now actively working to start getting them edited and posted.  I hope to get the first one up by tomorrow, but no later than Friday.

I'm actually getting a little distracted from homework because I keep wanting to go edit my videos and script and shoot new ones.  This is not necessarily great for my academics, but I'm still keeping ahead of my homework, so Mom, Dad, don't get too worried.  This is, however, really encouraging for me, as I like this hobby (as I have written, facebooked, and talked about to no end for the last few months) and would like to invest time into practicing and improving and creating quality output.

Also, I've just been reviewing the footage of the video that even I recognize is emo and a little melodramatic, and you know what?  I like me.  Once again, I've probably said that before, and I know it must be getting old, but it's always a great feeling to get, especially for a person whose self confidence is so small it could win any limbo competition in the world.  Every time I watch a video I've made and find myself laughing or smiling, I feel some childhood wounds make progress on their final healing process.  Now I just have to wait for the first troll to find my videos on YouTube and start tearing them apart with hate comments.

Actually, I'm somewhat looking forward to my first troll, if he/she ever comes (yay awkward political correctness!).  It will hurt, but it will also a sign that random people are actually watching.

Alright, back to homework or video editing.  Like I said, keep an eye out for tomorrow or Friday.  It's gonna be totally awesome.  Or mildly awesome.  Or maybe just mild.  :)

Update: The first edit of the video is complete.  It will almost definitely be ready by tomorrow, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's shaping up.

Fun with Post-Its

Probably no video tomorrow.  So appreciate what I have today!

100th post Bonanza!

And by bonanza, I mean the standard video.  Woot?

The good news is that I've started to pick up on a verbal tic I have that's rather annoying.  The good news being that I found it, not that it's annoying.  Luckily, it's pretty easy to edit out, but I apparently didn't do a very good job of it on this video.  Can you spot the easily editable verbal tic?