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great beginning
2006-01-01 19:58:57
My mom likes to say the way you spend the first day of the year shows how the rest of the year will turn out. With that in mind, at 2am this morning instead of going to sleep until noon, I cleaned a room in my apartment I'd been avoiding for months. Then I woke up to find my sister knocking wanting to take me to lunch - great breakfast considering I was about to open a can of black olives (the only thing in my apartment). Then my brother stops by with the usual cabbage an black-eyed peas my mom likes to make for new years - to ensure plenty of money for the rest of the year. Then I was playing around with ffdshow again and all of the sudden my media player works like normal - meaning wmm works again! Gagh! Great way to start the year. I've been uninstalling and installing various versions of ffdshow since my computer crash a few months back and nothing has helped. I didn't do anything different this time, either. Just means my luck was good today.
Here's to hoping the rest of the year continues this unprecidented trend of goodness. ^.^ -
Digi vid 1 - done
2005-12-30 20:43:06
So I just finished my first digimon vid, just made it available tonight. But all I feel from it is that I still want to make a vid featuring Matt and/or one featuring Gatomon. When I was making clips for this finished vid, I went ahead and got enough to make any one of the three ideas I had. That means I could technically start on a new one immediately. And I want to. It just feels wrong to start a new vid mere hours after releasing one - like that road leads to insanity or something. I just can't watch my new vid without getting ideas for one of the other two I had in mind. I'm going to force myself away from the computer tonight, or just burn cds so I can't actually run any programs. But knowing me I'll probably want to start one of these this weekend. I love the fresh rush of inspiration I'm getting to work with this anime, but it's a little excessive. I should at least be able to enjoy a new vid without being distracted by the vids I *didn't* make.
Whatever. Rewatching Digimon makes me want to do a Sailormoon vid, too, enjoying that nostalgic feeling. ^ ^; -
Digimon!
2005-12-26 03:11:18
Among other things, I've been watching Digimon in Japanese and really enjoying the nostalgia. It was the first anime I saw, back before I knew what anime was - I watched it on tv for years before I realized it was Japanese-made. I wanted to make some vids for the series, so I may work on that this week. My favorite characters (talking season 1) are Yammato and Takeru, and Nekomon (Gatomon). I'll probably do a general video featuring the guys, but I'd really like to do one focusing on Gatomon and her Wizard friend, and Hikari by default. A general vid from the pov of the digimon would be nice, too.
Mostly I need to do some searches for good digimon vids to watch. If I can find some vids to watch, I won't be so eager to make my own. I just haven't heard of any good digimon amvs, so it's like a given that I have to make some if I want to watch some. Not to say anyone else will think the vids are 'good', just that I don't think I'll have much luck finding ones I enjoy watching. It's not exactly a popular series, being so kidified by the dub, and I don't want to watch vids with crappy quality and subtitles all over them. But I like the series. I still like it the way I still like Sailormoon. It's just enjoyable to touch home with an old favorite like that. ^_^ -
new vid - done
2005-12-18 18:35:48
Heh, finished my little project. It didn't end up as explicit as I thought it would - I was aiming for softcore pron - but it's still pretty hot. I had so much fun gathering the clips that the editing was almost anticlimactic. I still wish wmm would work properly - this vid didn't need Premiere, and it would have been quicker and easier to make with a simple program. But it's all good. Short, shameless, fanservicey smut. ^___^
I think I'll announce it on the forum. It'd be funny to see if any guys accidentally download it. I've been keeping my shonen ai vids off the forum, but the year's almost over and there have been comments about not many vids coming out this month. ;p -
wannabe unemployed
2005-12-16 02:54:36
So I finally tried to quit last Monday. I went right up to my boss and told him I refused to work with his father there all the time, and since he told me he'd be in the office starting Monday, I wouldn't be coming back to work (it was Friday, then). Well, my boss called me no fewer than three times Monday. He kept saying his dad hadn't shown, hadn't shown, then that he just came and went like always and that really, there was no need for me to quit just yet. So I went back Tuesday and worked the rest of the week. He said that would be fine and I could quit starting this week - but by Friday he decided it would be best for me to work up to the 16th, since that's when they give out the Christmas bonus checks. So I stayed on through this week. Well, by Wednesday he was saying how he'd probably go ahead and keep working till the 23rd, when break starts, and then just not come back. So I figured, okay, I can work till then if I really have to. I tried to tell him my sister doesn't do anything and she can answer the phones for him instead of me, but he doesn't want to bother with that since it's only a week. And now he's talking about how his customers would really be better off if he came back January 2nd and did a week or two next year. At this point, I just want to quick, damnit. I don't like being there with his dad and his little brother lording over the place. He gets to go work on the yard and in the dimension building - I'm stuck in the office with them all day. The whole point was that I didn't want to be around his dad. I can handle the boy, but the old man makes me queasy, like he's a child molester or a pimp or something. I just don't like the way he treats people. He may be on 'good behavior' around me, but that doesn't stop me from bearing witness to the crap he pulls with everyone else. I just want out.
I keep putting things off, saying "I'll be able to quit next week" over and over. I'm still waiting to send my car in for a factory recall and I won't be able to drive down to USI and bitch at them about my still-missing diploma (from 2 yrs ago, since phone calls don't seem to help with those idiots) - the offices will be closed by the time christmas break comes and I can stop working. And now he's talking about coming back next year. He *has* his new yard and office set up - he's already making money off his new business. He can walk out on a minute's notice and start over there immediately. And he has to know by now that I'm not going with him any more than I'm staying there without him. He's being stubborn and egotistical, like it's so hard to just use the answering machine for a few days and let me leave.
Things would be so much simpler if he wasn't dating my mom. >.< Definitely the last time I go to work for someone who thinks of me as a friend more than an employee. No boss guilt-trips a person into coming back when she's been as blunt as I have about quitting, at least not without offering more money. He can't even do that since his dad had taken control of payroll and expenses. The only reason I'm still there is because leaving will inconvenience him for hower many extra weeks he decides to baby the usurpers. And I'm only worrying about that because inconveniencing him means giving my mom more headaches listening to him gripe about how miserable it is to be one of the richest men in the county. I think doormats are masochistic wimps. I hate being one myself. I'm a wimpy little momma's girl and I'm so sick of it I want to run away to California or Ohio or anywhere that is far from family members who expect things of me.
Better yet, I just want to quit. I never knew you needed permission to quit your job. wtf.
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