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Sunday, 25 January 2009
Ah, another two weeks. Well, we’ll start with school.
I’ve finished my first thing for animation. It’s the bouncing ball assignment, and you can see it on my youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfyWvDZfPA. It’s a six-second animation created from 68-hand-drawn frames compiled and formatted in MonkeyJam, which is a freeware program available for Windows. Next I have to do a model sheet of a character (I’m using my little Hope) and 20 gestures of that character, plus I didn’t get to do my 30 regular gestures for last week, so I have to make those up. I plan on using a model session for that, though (30 minute-or-less quick drawings of a model). Oh, and I got the textbook for free as a pdf. Gotta love torrents. Plus my roommate has a copy that I can use IRL if need be. Niza is awesome.
I’m managing to do okay in History of Architecture. I ended up spending $26 that I don’t have in order to get half the text book for the class (it’s Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, 7th Edition, which I can’t find for free online ANYWHERE). The book itself is a hardcover, but it was also released in paperback. The only difference? The paperback version is a set of two volumes, because the book is just so huge that a single paperback would not work. Opening it once would destroy the binding if all the pages were in one paperback. So I have half of the textbook, which is fine for now. There’s actually only two weeks where the syllabus covers material that’s not in the book I got. Oh, and the full book is $144. So $26 was a huge improvement over that, even without a couple weeks’ coverage.
In my Figure Sculpting class I had a bit of difficulty finding wooden plaques on which to mount my armatures, but Slater is god-awesome and brought in lots of them to share with students, so I was covered! He also had loads of aluminum foil and epoxy. He even GAVE me half a tube of epoxy at the end of class! O.o I still have to flesh out my armature with tin foil (I took forever doing turn-around drawings before starting on my armature) and on Tuesday we start fleshing it out with clay – which I actually have now, thanks to another trip to Walmart. I’ve also got lots of clay tools for helping sculpt later, and galvanized steel wire, and tiny wire cutters (which turn out not to work on 14-guage wire) and needle nose pliers (which work perfectly and almost got stolen from me the first time I brought them to class o.o). The only thing I have to do for that class besides my sculpture is attend a model session and do 10 drawings (which I’m going to do for 2 hours tomorrow night and get my 30 gestures done, too) and make silhouette turn-arounds for my sculpture (I’m just going to scan my sketch turn-arounds into Photoshop or something and create outlines and block shade them or something… Either that or trace and fill with sharpie/India ink).
Last and with the least amount of work, Intro to Psychology. My teacher is very fun and interesting, but the class is pretty easy. There’s no required textbook, our first week’s homework was simply to get a clear-view binder and stick out syllabus schedule in it, and the class is lecture/discussion/activity. We takes quizzes every two weeks, excluding the first week (so weeks 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11) and the quizzes are all based off lecture notes. By far my easiest class.
Now, on to the work front. ChaCha hasn’t been very kind to me at all recently. I’ve logged on for hours at a time and only got a couple questions. Twenty cents or thirty cents a night for two hours isn’t working for me. Candy is in my Animation class, and she and Roxas will be moving soon to Newport Pointe apartments, since their old place got bought out and prices are skyrocketing. Plus it’s way closer to school. I’ve actually been looking into that place for a while, too. I need a job first, of course, and when Candy told me she and Roxas were moving, she also mentioned how a lot of places on Hillsborough are hiring! Me and Daniel originally planned on going out today, but yesterday got a bit out of hand (more about that later). So I’m just going to fill in all the applications I already have and make new resumes and maybe turn a couple in today before 5 o’clock.
Moving on to the social circles: Me and Daniel hang out all the time. I hang out with Kayla and Mike occasionally, and in school I’m apparently more known than I thought. People come up to me and chat and I honestly don’t remember where they know me from, or where I might know them. A girl from my 1st quarter Computer Concepts class, Megan, is now in one of Daniel’s classes and we hang out a lot, too. Once a week we go over her place and play video games and board games and watch movies for hours and hours. It’s a nice way to escape. It blocks out David, which makes me feel absolutely terrible when I realize it, but it lets me temporarily forget that I have no idea when I’ll get to see him again. It lets me forget the plans we made over a year ago to live together. It lets me forget my complete and total failure to get a job. It lets me forget that I don’t have a home, a room of my own, a space I could share with him. Sometimes I want to take a butter knife and destroy February 14th on a calendar. Sometimes I wonder why I bother. We’re at our wit’s ends, always miserable with loneliness, I’m inundated with homework and social obligations designed to bury my predatory depression, he’s always harangued to do chores and errands, nearly trapped in his own home, and it’s as bad as ever it was while we’re apart. But the only thing more frightening, more lonely, and more harrowing than this… would be not having him at all. I want to cry, and I can’t because I don’t have the privacy to do so.
He said both the most tantalizing and yet cruel thing to me a while ago. “Would you like it if I could visit for your birthday?” I couldn’t imagine anything that would make me happier on my birthday. My 20th birthday I’m going to spend alone, unable to go out during the day because it’s Palm ******** Sunday, unable to stay out late because a new quarter of school starts the next day, unable to hand with friends because they’re all WAY too busy, and entertained by the soul-crushing memory of a question that inspired a doomed hope.
I need to get along and do other things now. I have to list a ton of things on Amazon so I can have food next month, I have to fill out loads of applications so maybe I’ll have a job that’ll let me have food the following month, I have to make a new resume with my awesome Illustrator skills, I wanted to try to get more homework done (but that probably won’t happen) and I have a school-sponsored FREE lazer tag event at 5 that involves free food as well as free fun. Part of me doesn’t even want to go.
Asinametra · Sun Jan 25, 2009 @ 07:40pm · 0 Comments |
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