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I'm heading back home on the 8th! It should've been the 4th, but Sophie's last final isn't until the following Tuesday, and she and I are sharing a storage unit. (She's from California and has no way of moving stuff currently. She's going to drive back here, though, so she'll have a way to move things. Well, I thought she was. Now I'm not sure. XD;) I cannot WAIT to get home and see people and my DOG. You have no idea how much I just want to have a lap full of excited Lola right now. I was hoping Mom could bring her down when she comes to get me, but the idea is really silly. Mom would have to leave early in the morning, she couldn't feed Lola because Lola gets sick in the car if she's eaten... it wouldn't work out. I'll likely have to wait until I get home. And even then, that might actually end up being a night spent in PA before heading back to Brooklyn, as the house is closer to Juniata than the apartment by two hours.

Tuesday I didn't give a crap about anything, and today, my body decided to give me a very unpleasant surprise, and I've been dealing with it all day. I skipped both my classes just because I could not leave my bed. This morning was hell. When I get back home, I need a trip to the doctor to sort myself out. Nothing serious, just major annoyance.

I've been drawing a lot lately... except a lot of that's been in a small sketchbook I picked up just to have a small wire-bound one. The other one I have is six inches square and has a spine, which irriates me to no end. I was trying to remember to draw in the book for Art Therapy--we had the option of doing a visual journal for extra credit--and I kept forgetting to do it until about a week ago, when I found myself missing Oliver a ridiculous amount and decided to recreate one of my favorite photos of him in colored pencil. I was super happy with the result, and my artmaking's just taken off since. I've been experimenting with watercolor in those pages, too. Right now the sketchbook is with Leah, so she can look at the pictures, so I'm using my large book. I've got a drawing of Skyward Sword!Link that I used a screenshot as a reference for in it, and I'm currently working on a redraw of two characters I've only ever drawn once before. I'm noticing a huge shift in the way I go about drawing since going through art therapy: I'm much less likely to hem and haw about what I should draw, and more likely to just start doodling and work it out as I go. This is what I wanted to happen from the beginning of the semester.

My life is in the ceramics studio right now. Lots of glazing happening. I was just in there tonight glazing something that probably won't look great once it's done. :\ I'm not overly happy with that piece; it could've been made in a different way and it would've turned out better, but now it just looks a mess. It's an abstraction of the flashlight I reproduced. I'm kinda hoping the abstract gets dropped by someone and gets destroyed, I feel that badly about it. On the plus side, a student saw my apple reproduction at the Liberal Arts Symposium art exhibition and liked it so much she wants to buy it. :D I only charged her $25 because she's a student probably making minimum wage and it didn't take me long to make the apple at all, but still, I sold something that I made. I think I need to thank Bethany for giving Patrick and me a relatively simple apple to make. Some of the apples she had were crazy, but ours was more or less what an apple should look like.

Also, the Link Making Faces Tumblr is the best thing ever. Especially this post. I'd buy that game just for the name. XD

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Feb. 26th, 2012 11:16 am
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Did I say I was going to drop Digital Video Production? Well, I didn't, and we're working on our documentary project right now. One of the teams (at least, I think it might have been one of the class's teams, it could've been someone separate) used our camera and removed some things from it. I can't remember if they removed our first tape of footage. I want to smack a bitch, because we need that footage. Tian actually has the bag right now because he couldn't return it to DMS, so if that other team needs the bag again, oh well. We were supposed to pick a camera and stick with it. Karina thinks it was Kelsey (sure I'm spelling it wrong) that used it. I'd say I hope all their footage is shot, but I honestly don't care at the moment. No idea what possessed them to use our equipment and not put our tape back when they were done.

As for the actual project, aside from directing, I'm also in charge of post-production sound once Jess edits everything together. It should be interesting. A lot of the time yesterday, we didn't use the shotgun mic (Open Mic night brings a LOT of people into Standing Stone, the coffeehouse we're doing the documentary on, and it was hard to move and not block people's view): It was just Karina with the camera's built-in microphone. She was close enough that it was probably fine, and people weren't really talking through the performances, but I'm slightly worried about how it's going to sound. It's not the kind of thing that we can shoot over. Also, there was one performer, a guitarist, who had a music stand in front of him, and for his first song we couldn't see his guitar or his body, and it got worse when he stepped away from the stand to do a little solo. I had Tian change positions at the next song so we were on the guy's side, and it was perfect. We're looking up at him from below. It's not an extreme angle, but Nathan might complain about it. I'm gonna tell him it was a compromise we had to make, because I was not blocking patrons' view of the stage. Maybe that makes me not suited for camerawork and directing, but whatever. (Nathan's view is that anyone will accept your behavior if you have a camera in your hand. Greg, the owner of Standing Stone, came over to us early, after one performance, and told us not to block people. Greg wins.)

We're supposed to be meeting today to interview Greg and some of the staff, and maybe some customers. I really hope Amanda comes this time. I can't remember if she said she was available this weekend. I know Jess has issues being available because of theater. I'm really terrible about thinking up questions, but Amanda's pretty good about it. Still, I think I should ask questions this time, just so Nathan can hear me actually doing something. XD;;

In other class news, I kicked the shit out of the first Mass Media test, I made a cool design for ceramics before it started cracking and falling apart, so I'll have to do it over (but won't get penalized because it was built and Bethany saw it), and I'm doing well in Digital Art. Thinking of possibly taking Digital Photography. And there's another digital art class that's more like a graphic design thing that could also be interesting. I'd like to take Intermediate Drawing, too, if I can manage that. I have junior status now, so hopefully I can get into classes for next semester before they close. Oh, and Art Therapy's still a lot of fun. I have to do a project next week with a child.

Sophie is 100% hooked on Skyward Sword. She's playing through her own file, and she's basically caught up to my Hero Mode game. All she has to do is go through the last Silent Realm, and then we'll be in the same spot. I'm going to try to get the Hylian Shield from Lanayru before I have to go back to the surface, because I want to save the game before the epic Link vs. a thousand enemies part. You only get to do that once, there's no way to relive it unless you manage to save beforehand. It's epic, and the developers REALLY should've let you save before you start it, or at least pull off a reminiscence mechanic like in Shadow of the Colossus. Sophie's kind of fun and irritating to watch at the same time. If things scare her or make her nervous, she actively avoids them, even if going through them would take five seconds while going around them takes a minute. I keep telling her she needs to have no fear and just GO. ^^; Then again, I control the game a lot better than she does, because I'm used to it. She still has issues steering sometimes.

Home on Friday! Spring Break approaches. :D Sophie and I will be riding back together at least part of the way: She has to go to Philadelphia to catch her plane to San Diego. Can't wait to get home and see everyone. Lola's going to lose it when I get back. Dad is actually going down to Oklahoma for about a month and leaving on Tuesday, so he's going to swing by this way and hang out with me for a while, since he won't get to see me next week. Makes me happy, because I really didn't want to wait until the end of the school year to see him again.

Also, there might POSSIBLY be a trip to California in my future. Not sure. Sophie's going to Comic Con and wants me to come, and we can just generally hang out for a week or so. Have to see what's possible. Tuition is officially paid off (well, as soon as the money's removed from my account), and I can focus on other things now, like paying the accrued interest on my loans, dropping the credit card balance down a bit more, and, you know, savings. When I get back home next week, I'm gonna have Amaria do my taxes. Getting unemployment's going to eat into my usually-good refund, but whatever. I think I was getting a good amount from the feds before I gave up trying to figure everything out. (TurboTax asks this question that completely STALLED me. Something about how much money did you pay to the school that actually went toward tuition, I think. Schools don't generally report that. It's easier for them to just give you the amount you were billed, because then they don't have to break your bill down into aid received, tuition payments received, fees, etc.. It's extremely annoying. And the info they give you doesn't even need to be accurate because the feds don't get after them for it.)

Anyway. I think that's it. XD;

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One of my new friends here at Lesher, I'm convinced, has super-low esteem. She's admittedly socially awkward, which I totally understand and can empathize with--I've been there and still find myself there. She tends to think people don't want her around though. We were all hanging out earlier, me on my laptop trying to write an essay, Sophie on her laptop looking up reference pics for a nail art project, and she asked Kymberly if she wanted to go get her laptop so she wouldn't need to get on the internet with her cell phone. Kym took this as "Go back to your room, no one wants you here". It's frustrating Sophie, because Kymberly gets like this a lot. What's kind of amusing to me is that Sophie's major is psychology. ^^; I know that doesn't mean she's not allowed to lose patience, but it's interesting putting the two concepts together in my mind. Kym's a really sweet girl, she just needs to learn to read people better. She strikes me as the type that has a small circle of close friends, and she gets along great with those friends, but plop her into a situation with new people and she clams up. It doesn't help that she's a new transfer here this semseter. She'll get better, though. We're all heading out for dinner in a bit.

As time passes, I still find myself worried about Mass Media. Originally my fears were with DVP, but after a couple of weeks, I feel better about it. I still need to learn a lot, of course--camerawork is not a strength right now--but I'm not as worried about that class, even not totally knowing what I'm doing, as I am about MM. Another girl who's in both classes with me (there are four of us, if I remember correctly) feels the same way. The MM professor is just so detailed about things. I'm not sure my essay-writing skills are up to it. The good thing is her essays are only a page. The bad thing is she says she won't read past that, so it's a matter of getting the important points down and discussed within that one page. That gets tricky.

I totally got some black and gold nail polish and painted Triforces on my thumbs. XD They were originally going to be on all ten fingers, but I decided they'd be too hard to paint on. I need a template. Sophie's painting Ghirahim's diamonds on hers. We're such geeks. She watches me play Skyward Sword, and we've both developed unhealthy obsessions with Ghirahim. I'm playing through Hero Mode right now. It's been an extended wake-up call. Kind of like sprinting through Halo like you don't give a crap, and then playing on Legendary. XD;;

We went rollerskating at the town community center last night. Holy CRAP. I haven't done it in forever, and I took a couple of nasty spills. I think I bruised the bottom of the palm of my hand, but I'm not sure. It took me a while to sort of get comfortable, but I need to work on my balance and turning. Poor Sophie had never skated before and clung to the walls while we were there. It was fun, though. We're gonna go again sometime. I got to know Sophie and Kym's friend Becca (Becks), and she's awesome. She found it awesome that I'm nearly 30 and went rollerskating at a community center with some college students, to be surrounded by kids younger than 18. She also got this freaking delicious milkshake from Sheetz that I didn't even know existed, and we shared it. I should not have found out about that. I'm going to very pointedly ignore it when I go in there. I permit myself one a month. They're really good.

This song. <3 I bought the album on iTunes and have been playing this one pretty much exclusively, although most of the album's great. (There's one song that I can't stand that plays right before this one.) The song's on repeat now. It loops perfectly. There's this little 8-bit riff in it that REALLY appeals to me.

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