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4133 hits
2008-01-30 17:47:44
Wow. Holy shit. What a week. School started Monday. Because I don't have internet access at my house, I ended up following the wrong schedule & missing 1 class for sure, and 2 classes I didn't know I needed to add. At least 1 professor now hates me. Basically, I'm a stress ball. Alcohol tonite, for sure.
Sadly, Monday rite b4 my 1st official class, a cat in our neighborhood was run over. He was always at my doorstep, and me & my mom would feed him & pet him. When it rained, I let him into my bathroom with some food. I've seen road kill before, & I've have had beloved pets die, but not in combonation. The moment I saw Fiji (as I called him), he was being run over. I didn't know it at the time, but he had died about an hour earlier & people were having fun with his corpse.
After crying for a little while, I went to class, but couldn't sleep that nite til 4am. As a result, I slept in & missed my 1st physics class.
All day today I've been running around doing this & that. It seems like I'll never get a decent schedule. I want to drop physics, but first I need to add organic chemistry. And get my pre-reqs checked out by either the teacher or the advisor or the student access to science guy, I'm not sure which. I'll try the professor first, then go from there. Then talk to my physics professor. Maybe.
Seriously, I feel like my brain is going to explode. I just want to know my schedule & not have to worry about it any more. Thank God for dexadrine, or I'd never have been able to get as much done today as I did. Also, the disabled student services was super helpful. (I still can't believe I accidently dropped my latin american cinema class).
In other news, I really want to move out. In addition to being too small & depressing, my room doesn't have enough space for me to have a proper desk. Also, no internet. So many of my problems could have been avoided if I could get internet at my house. Unfortunately, I have no free time to work. Housing in California is expensive.
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Funner news:
Last nite, I ate ramen at a real apanese resturant. They spoke Japanese to each other to get orders. I know enough to say "domo" when they refill my oolong tea. The ramen was really good. I had hard noodles with bamboo & ginger. It also had pork & green onions, and I played around with the condiments. The less-salty soy sauce was really good. I was too scared to try the green tea ice cream, but the strawberries that came with it were awesome. What made it special was that I got to go with my boyfriend, and also his mom.
After dinner, I went back to the Hell that is adding classes. Not gonna talk about that.
Then, my bf & I watched reno 911 & jackass 2. I think he liked jackass 2 more than he will admit to. I saw him laffing ;)
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More stuff:
I've been working a lot on my new amv. I also want to finish my other older amvs, but that'll have to come later. I have all the footage I need, but no editing program. I want Final Cut Pro, or a version of After Effects that works on a Mac. I can use it to edit, but there's no way to sync sound with my system, which was why the end of "summertime guilt" was totally out of sync. I might actually re-do that one, but probably not. Maybe I'll just review it myself & call it a learning experience.
My new vid is a character profile of Nami from One Piece. I've been working on it for a few months now, with lots of breaks, but now that I've found a rhythm, it's going faster. The concept is I rotoscoped still frames of Nami & then put them on different backgrounds. I also animated either Nami, the background, or another object. So the whole video will be 4 minutes entirely created or altered by me. It's pretty ambitious, but compared to something like "the wedding rings," I still have a way to go. It's mostly pretty & colorful rite now, with some drug-trip moments. Almost every shot will have Nami in it, except the backup singers. To do that, I took still frames of various characters from the show and altered their mouths so it looks like they're saying "ooh la la." Not sure if that'll be boring. I also discovered that mmpeg streamclip can be used as an editing program. I came up with a very rough cut of the 1st minute of the video. Basically, I copy what's loaded in the program, then load another clip, then paste the 1st clip at either the begining or end of the 2nd clip. Pretty basic, but I like the flow of the video so far.
I wanna get online SO bad & download videos again!!!!!!!!!
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4111 hits
2008-01-07 20:05:20
Well, the holiday season is over, which means banks and post offices everywhere are open for buisness again. I used the opportunity to deposit my Christmas money in the bank, which will almost cover the cost of my car repair and a tank of gas.
In case you can't tell, I've been pretty down lately. Very down, in fact. Since losing my job in October, my financial situation has gone from bad to worse. I reapplied for unemployment yesterday, but God knows when I'll hear from then. Otherwise, I don't even have the gas money to visit my boyfriend.
To keep in good spirits, I've been eating chocolate chip cookies, which I will regret in about a week but don't care about now, and watching hundreds of videos on newgrounds, and some on youtube. I cried when I found a video of a Scottie, because he remined me so much of my own Scottie *Rascal*, who ran away many years ago. I miss Rascal terribly, even after 13 years.
In other news, I really want to get a job. I'll probably ask when I go see the science advisor tomorrow. Hopefully, she can lead me to an internship (even if it's unpaid, it'll give me somewhere to go every day), or job search website. Careerbuilders is just too hard right now.
To pass the time, I've joined gaia online. I have a bad feeling it's one of those sites that installs badware, but it's too cute to pass up. I'm so getting yelled at later..... -
4090 hits
2007-12-27 20:22:12
Merry Christmas, org.
I was sick all Christmas Day, so I watched movies in bed. It was calm.
The next day. I was even sicker, so I slept all day.
Today, I felt better, but crampy. All my fevered thought have left my head but one: new places are the most formal. I think it means that when you first go to someone's house, you feel the most nervous.
Now I watch Purple Rain. The acting is really cheesy, and it makes me smile more than the special on tourette's syndrome kids. Oh Prince: sodomize me, elf-lord. -
4074 hits
2007-12-20 02:19:20
worst...day...ever...
it was raining when the alarm clock ripped me from my long-awaited cloud-like slumber. i dressed forthwith, and drove sleepily to school, anticipating my final in the critical study of film. imagine my horror to discover that the classroom was empty, and my teacher was not in his office. Upon locating donna, the person in the csulb film dept who actually knows what's going on, I was informed that the teacher had given the final on monday, the time the class normally takes place, instead of today, the scheduled and posted test date. I turned in my final essay to Donna, and emailed the bastard. At least I wasn't the only person who made this mistake. If he doesn't give me a makeup test, I'll complain to the dean.
On the positive side, I ran into Jane, the transgender man who works at the library. He's my friend.
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4050 hits
2007-12-18 22:58:46
Turned in the story, the teacher asked me to write in prose, I did, he seemed to like it.
Last nite I turned in my final paper for my women in film class. I almost had a heart attack when I got to the classroom & no one was there. Turns out all I had to do was drop off the paper in her office. No test final. Yay!
I also couldn't sleep last nite. Perhaps it's cause I spent so much time online gathering katamari photos for my writing class final that the various hyper songs kept me awake by replaying in my head. Watching amv hell 3 in its entirity just to see the scene with katamari set to limp bizkit probably didn't help, either.
Today I woke up late, watched videos on newgrounds, and made a little video/slideshow of katamari pics for my final. Since I was lazy & used wmm, it crashed just as I was finished, meaning I have to start over. I feel like I have brain freeze lately. So anyway, that means I have to go to Eric's house, get a flash drive, come back, take the photos from the computer that has internet and put them on the computer that has editing software. I hate my life.
So tired. Have portal "still alive" song stuck in my head from listening to it so many times. For those of you who enjoy punishment:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/413839
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