{"id":254,"date":"2007-06-28T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-03-16T20:44:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T03:44:23","slug":"work-day-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Work day 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t really been updating lately, have I?<br \/>\nHmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly&#8217;s new CD came out on Tuesday. Out of the 17 songs I got (because I pre-ordered the deluxe version of the album from iTunes), 11 are really good (AKA my style) and only one is intolerable. I think my favorite on the disc Sober, which is an amazing, amazing song&#8230; but I also really like Hole and Judas. Also, the preorder-only track Not Today is very good as well, but if you don&#8217;t have the album by now, you&#8217;re not going to get the song, so nyah nyah :-P<br \/>\nOverall, the album isn&#8217;t as good as her previous one (although you can&#8217;t really compare them, given how different this one is from any of her previous work&#8230; and that&#8217;s definetly not a bad thing)&#8230; but it&#8217;s still a damn amazing album, and I recommend you get it. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>This review of her album made me literally roll on the floor, laughing:<br \/>\n<em>True, most will say, it is less mainstream as her sophomore hit, Breakaway. But this CD, WOAH, it so much deeper, the lyrics are personal (&#8216;Why can&#8217;t you just take me?\/I don&#8217;t have much to go\/Before I fade completely.&#8217;-Irvine) and are written by Kelly herself. Whoever said these songs aren&#8217;t catchy? Of course they are! Maybe not as catchy as Since U Been Gone, or Walk Away, but catchy isn&#8217;t everything. Some hip hop songs are catchy <strong>(My Humps for example) but that doesn&#8217;t make them good songs.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Work went well today. I&#8217;ve been doing bug fixes for the past couple weeks, and I feel like I&#8217;m getting better at this. I got really, really frustrated earlier this week because I felt like I was taking way too long to track down and fix simple things, but I think I&#8217;m getting faster now as I get a better understanding of the code and get more familiar with the codebase. Yay!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventure.alanv.org\">CMU Adventures<\/a> has had a couple updates&#8230; nothing big yet, but I&#8217;ll work on it eventually. I haven&#8217;t had much time lately between work and other personal commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Not much else happening in my life, really. Meh.<br \/>\n*is boring*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t really been updating lately, have I? Hmm&#8230; Kelly&#8217;s new CD came out on Tuesday. Out of the 17 songs I got (because I pre-ordered the deluxe version of the album from iTunes), 11 are really good (AKA my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=254\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gdc4s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}