Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
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11:48 pm - Sure, its a meme.
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If you are on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you.
I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know a lot about each other - I want to know you better!
Comment here and re-post a blank one on your own journal (totally optional).
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
26) Favorite band to listen to when you're mad?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favourite and least favourite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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12:21 am - Time expands to fill tasks....
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I finally got caught up from Akon (I posted a few pictures on Facebook -- just me with the Doc-tahs, and Utena) only to totally slack off tonight. Fun side note! I approached the doctor with a terrible British accent. I'm pretty sure I'm an idiot. I ran up like a total fangirl and shouted "DOCTAH! DOCTAH! Can I have a pik-cha?! (Doctor, Doctor, can I have a picture, for the non retarded)" I think I scared the crap out of him. The 9th? 10th? doctor I ran into cosplaying as David Tenant made my YEAR. He had the Sonic screwdriver and everything! HE LOOKED LIKE HIM. OMG. I grinned stupidly through the whole thing. I wished I had been in plainclothes so I could have struck a pose with him and lived out my stupid sci fi fantasy. :D
Anywho (heh), I'm happy my team's game will be making it to the Xbox, but that does mean I have to redo some art. I'm kinda scared about that, what if I can't make anything good? Our student "producer" is an artist from the class ahead of us. He's outspoken and he'll let me know if it sucks--I'm just bad at changing things without feeling like a total loser.
I'm wrestling with the idea of going to an art convention this weekend. There would be some artists from comics, film and the game industry there--this could be good. I don't have morning class on Friday so I could catch a workshop and I have time to book it back to class at the break. In fact, the only reason I'm a little hesitant is because: I honestly don't have a portfolio at this time. With nothing to review, I can't really get better in my art quite yet or really make any good contacts under the GUISE of art review... I've got a few drawings on Deviant Art and a mostly empty sketchbook. I need to get my butt in gear, fill up my remaining sketchbooks and take on the challenge one artist put to me at an A-kon panel: Fill up one sketchbook per month. If I want to get from crap to average (not GOOD, mind you) then I have to draw every waking second. I'm going to skip the sketching on the toilet, though. That's a bit much.
current mood:  anxious
current music: Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
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12:11 am - Can't do anymore work. Rendering.
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It's a parallel to this joke:XKCD Compiling. But for artists.
This Term we only had two projects for art class. This at first seemed incredibly easy to me...but at our level of knowledge I think they planned it well. We researched weapons, drew them and then modeled/textured them. That took a LOT OF WORK. How on earth do games get done? XD Just rendering the 3D models into jpegs, not pretty jpegs--just saving them, took 5 HOURS.
Of course our teachers are sadists and tell us faster ways to do things only after we go the long way.
So the next project was a car. I did a BMW Z4. Well, not the prettiest one because I got confused between model years...I think I hate the car industry. An 07 looks different than an 08. That doesn't help when you need several angles of the same vehicle. They don't have years on the side. Thank you, Germany!
This week is going to be pretty awesome. It's my LAST WEEK. Even if this week sucks and I fail every test, I get rejected for school loans and people pour pig blood on me it's all over for this term. I get a whole week afterwards to...do more work. But at least I don't have to go to school! although I might anyway
current mood:  amused
current music: Lili S'En Fout - Toufic Farroukh
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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11:14 pm - Oookay.
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Brief thought of the day. While I was taking a walk break around the neighborhood/mallplex area I saw this couple window shopping. The guy had his hand around the woman's neck like he was leading her around. Every now and then he would drop his hand to smack her on the butt.
The first time he did it I rolled my eyes and thought "okay, you're involving everyone in your odd little home life. Whatever."
But he just kept doing it. Grabbing her by the back of the neck and pulling her around then slapping her on the butt. I don't know why, but it really bothered me. Like he was pissing on his own personal tree. I guess she's a grown woman, its up to her if she likes that sort of thing but I wanted to sock the guy. He was probably an asshole anyway.
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1:02 am - Holidays. Weekends. Now I can get work done!
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That's mostly been the theme of this weekend...and every other weekend really. That and lack of sleep.
Today was kinda weird. Two projects have been canceled. When a project is canceled, the people are taken from the canceled team and placed onto other teams. One of the teams was dissolved due to some friction between the members. I'm very biased because I really like the girl that is at the center of the controversy. We didn't get any people on our team, and we take that as a good sign that the overlords believe we're on track. Shows what THEY know. XD
But I think that the project isn't bad. I'm not impressed with my art thus far...pixel art ain't my thang. I'll have to upload some of the stuff to deviant art soonish, but the non traditional look and feel to our game really makes me want to do something...traditional. I actually do want to learn how to animate a normal 2d character and do parallax scrolling backgrounds. None of this weird tiling crap and strange sun disk main character. I was happy to do some pixel art on the side for the Gendai crew. I'm hoping I can do more, Zelda/FF or Secret of Mana style.
I have today off so I need to focus on next week. Our vertical slice is coming up and technically all the assets aren't in. They are, but they aren't. I'm actually quite impressed though. Usually the overseers have a list of things for the teams to do for VS and they only do one level. Our producer/professor felt confident in our ability to finish two levels and only asked me to do one thing: a simple environment swap (which took me about 8 hours but I'm really slow, so...). Dude, I can get to the wish list that these crazy ass designers keep pulling from the ether. You want cinemas? A turret guy that spits sawblades...A swirling spawn circle that looks like "that thing from Fullmetal Alchemist". A credits screen with hand drawn PORTRAITS...? Ooookay. Soon I'm going to come in with a rolled up newspaper and start hitting them. NO! Bad designer! No cookie!
I'm glad there's nothing to do in this town or I'd like, be missing stuff.
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
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1:33 pm - Ah... glitches
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( Role Playing in Fable )
...so I'll probably reload and see if I can avoid the whole divorce glitch. If I can't, I'll just remarry a prostitute or something. It just bothers me having the title "the whore" after a person's name.
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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12:30 pm - Self love
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We have evaluations of our team members after every milestone of the game project. We've been advised by other cohorts to just rate people highly--they see the comments and the teacher really takes the grades directly from the evaluations. We could be honest--but these are graded. I wouldn't want to be the reason some poor sap got kicked out of the program because he doesn't enjoy 2D.
Yesterday I was really low on sleep during the evaluation. When I had to rate myself on the eval I got to the comments section and couldn't think of anything but "Eva is incredibly sexy. If I got erections, she would cause them and they would be GLORIOUS." The only thing that stopped me was knowledge that this specific teacher has no sense of humour and I was disabled from stringing together coherent sentences at the time. Perhaps more of the latter than the former.
Three more days to go before I have a few days off. We get about a week or so off. We've already been given homework over the break and my team wants to meet on Monday to start our demo. Gah, I wish these guys had families or girlfriends. XD
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
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5:17 pm - Tales of a Slacker Part I (the final chapter)
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Little work got done today and it makes me feel rather guilty. Perhaps overloading us with stuff is a good practice. Good thing this isn't ever going to happen again (weak laughter here).
Dropped by the school for 2 hours and did some art practice.
I also had the rare luxury to go see a movie today: Slumdog Millionaire. Really good movie: this probably means I'm getting less cynical in my old age and this worries me. They only dance at the end sadly, but it is awesome. When I find the DVD and the soundtrack they'll become definite purchases.
Another movie looked good (the one thing that sucks about going to movies is finding OTHER movies you want to see): Waltz with Bashir. Not only does the story make No Country for Old Men look like lighthearted fare, but it does some- cool things with 2D and 3D animation.
Lastly, there is a THING tonight. I do not wish to go to this thing, but I never do and usually enjoy myself regardless. It's at a bar/arcade type place and I don't know when I'd be back. Honestly, I wanted to do some more art tonight and study. I'm a hermit by nature. Plus, to quote a GUY: there's no reason to go to a bar unless you're going to drink. Maybe I could volunteer as a designated driver or something. I dunno.
Next up: doing laundry and getting groceries so I don't starve during the big storm that's about to hit. Starving would totally suck. And I'm pretty sure I'd be on the cover of major magazines: "Extremely well-fed girl starves after two days of not eating. Could this happen to YOU?!"
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
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9:49 am - Random thought of the day
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Why does "Crazy? I'll show YOU crazy!" never precede an act of extreme sanity?
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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9:33 pm - Delusions of grandeur starting to set in
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This weekend was awesome fun on Saturday sandwiched by hell. I had an enormous deal of homework due today which to badly quote Bender from Futurama: you won't hear me not complain about it. My ordeal sounded a little better than one classmate who apparently spent 8 hours doing the assignment to learn that they had completed it incorrectly--and had to redo everything.
Despite this (or perhaps because of it) I'm really enjoying the classes. Among the work that was mildly frustrating it was difficult to receive calls from classmates to go socializing and having to sound like Hermione when I had to say "Sorry, I've got homework." Endless articles, drawing assignments and an open world of application for the stuff I'm learning is really exciting stuff. I can't help but have my imagination run a little wild with my perception of the badass I might be at the end of the program. At this point I'm actually not excited about a job in the industry per se, because that's not guaranteed. I'm excited by the body of work we're putting together. I figure I don't have too many "my life is so awesome" moments, so I wanted to share.
Life in Dallas is not nearly as bad as I was lead to believe. The water tastes horrible, but I don't drink from the faucet anyway. The people are a bit surly here. I guess that's what normal cities are like or who knows, maybe I bring out the best in people :). I haven't been going to the gym as much, but I tend to walk to school with a 50lb backpack so I think I get a pass. So far the experience is pretty net positive.
I drew a few things. Using the Wacom is like learning to draw again for the first time. The pictures will be on my Deviant Art account here: http://energiae.deviantart.com/.
current mood:  creative
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
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12:57 pm - So dull knifes cut skin as well as sharp ones!
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
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9:05 am - Dreams
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Had a dream about a telephone booth that fell from the sky near a busy street corner. While everyone else was gawking I booked it straight there and peeked inside. I was disappointed to just see a pay phone. In perfectly normal dream logic (which is my real logic as well) I thought: "Well of COURSE its not the Tardis. It's green."
I picked up the phone on a lark and was shocked to hear a dialtone. I dialed an operator. When asked what party I wished to reach I stated that the phone booth I was in fell out of the sky and I didn't want to limit my options. Who was available?
current mood: amused
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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10:47 pm - And then life resumes
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Three more weeks till my last day and then I prepare for the most intensive program I've ever gone experienced. Not quite ready yet.
And ick, I think a friend might be mad at me. That'll make the gift giving awkward, I don't want it to look like I'm trying to buy my way out of anything. I was just really tired this weekend and didn't want to interact that much. The holidays were spent mostly with some great small events and I retreated into my little corner on Saturday...slept in, did Christmas shopping and ate at a restaurant with my husband. I hope I haven't done any lasting damage to the relationship.
Man, I just don't want to give up the holidays. I need more time to be a lazy slug.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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11:34 pm - Talking about Twilight (the vampire story) brings me down
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I don't know why. I think it reminds me of being a teen or something and that really depresses me. I think I'm still the oldest teenager I know.
I don't remember being very trendy in high school. If I liked something, I said so. If something seemed really stupid I was equally vocal. This got me in a lot of trouble. Twilight is the same cheap, trashy, star-crossed teen love junk that was sold when I was a kid, my mom was a kid and probably when her mom was a kid. They just probably had better vocabularies the older the text got. I think it will be HUGE. I'm not against it, it just pains me.
Anywhoo.
Trip to NY happens tomorrow. I let the workplace know I'm going to Guildhall and my last day is in December. They're still sending me to Manhattan, so YAY! I'm finally doing some work on the other project at Red Fly--I hope I can accomplish a lot before I leave.
And I'm rather addicted to Mass Effect. This is my second playthrough of the game (honestly just so I could date the sexy, assertive Ashley) and now I'm a studly McStudmuffin by the name of Edward Shepard. The codpieces on the EVAC armor suits are rather huge in this game. My penis apparently eclipses WORLDS.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
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12:10 am - Apathy
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The countdown continues until I hear news from the school. I was assured I'd hear something by the end of this week or the beginning of the next. My anxiety has gone through the roof. I can't wait! :D
And I don't know what form I'll take when I finally take charge of my life and feel like I'm giving as good as I get. I do know one sign: when someone calls me Ava, Evita or Eve I will correct them. Apathy is another way I tell people that I don't matter.
And if someone calls me Hell, Stacy, Her, Mary Jo or Lisa---its ON!!!
current mood: chipper
current music: Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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10:30 pm - Whoops, sometimes I forget and speak my mind.
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So, uh Post Mortems. I officially have a shipped video game title to my name. The company asked some questions, like "How did you feel about the work conditions, management, etc..." This is my first time around the block. I answered honestly. Ooops.
The QA version of the post mortem was the most uncomfortable hour of my life. I now understand why certain people are disliked by certain other intelligent people that are no longer with the company. I do not regret the decision not to leave my job and take employment offer from the MMO company but I am currently waiting on PINS AND NEEDLES as to the state of my application to school.
I no longer feel any sadness about the possibility of leaving. This was a great opportunity and I have learned a lot--but I'm ready to keep going. I believe I can do even better and have more to offer.
The next few weeks are going to be awesome. I have a few projects to work on, and if I can manage more than 6 hours of sleep a night, I'll jump right on them.
current mood: amused
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12:15 am - Surprised
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Wow. I'm actually really surprised by the turnout of the election. I didn't believe it would happen.
And really confused by a text message I got. Maaaaaaaaavrick. I lol'd, until I realized I didn't recognize the number. Curious.
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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11:32 pm - Quickie
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Blindness was a really, really, really depressing movie. For some strange reason I thought it was going to be a movie about the breakdown of society--instead I got a prison camp movie. Wow. I didn't watch OZ for a reason. To crib from DH: "I wanted it to end. Not because it was a bad movie, but just because I didn't want to watch anymore".
So now I need to watch something brain cleansing like MST3K or something. Gah.
Random thought of the day: praise from certain people makes me happy. Being told I am awesome is even better. Almost makes me feel bad that my mind is made up about my future. My first pass at the Guildhall (GS1) is nearly complete. I'll likely fail, but the next submission, or GS2 (Guildhall submission 2) will be more efficient and better planned. I will get in.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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10:59 pm - Songs that I will not miss passing into obscurity
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1. My Humps by Black Eyed Peas (however, the Alanis Morisette video is awesome)
2. I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry
3. Perfect by a Simple Plan
4. La La by Ashlee Simpson
5. Most of the songs on the BEAT 102.3. (sorry mom)
current mood: amused
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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9:16 am - Point: Counter Point
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The greatest theme in my life is regret. Not taking chances that I wanted to take, but was afraid of losing face somehow.
With that in mind, I have to ask myself about whether this new opportunity brings me any closer to my end goal: becoming an anime character.
Would I have to get a new haircut? Check.
Perhaps move closer into Austin and buy a motorcycle? Getting warmer.
Exercising more so I can afford to wear red leather while I barrel through the streets like Akira Kaneda?
hmn...
current mood: chipper
current music: Joining You - Alanis Morrisette
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