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Coherence @ 1:45AM?
2002-03-30 23:01:18
Kyburg: I'm trying to remember if I ever played with Photoshop 4 or not. I know that 5 was pretty easy to use for simple tasks (I have yet to take it to even 10% of its potential) and it's very responsive to play and learn. Good luck on XML and the NIC stuff.
EK: I know you have an LJ but dammit, reading your journal and seeing something new every time I came to the site made checking it all the more worth it.
Anyways on to my life....
Stayed up to watch dr. who tonight, they aired Robot here and I love Tom Baker's doctor, especially some of his first lines. Pity that the whole part about the robot wasn't so great, especially for the last 20 min or so.
I've had on "Cosmic Dare" from the Bebop Movie Ask DNA Mini-Album almost all day. I have the feeling that I won't be able to sleep tonight because it'll be in my head all evening. I've actually had some sleeping problems lately - brain trying to process too much during its free reign time and it's running on overdrive while I'm trying to power down. I can't even remember half the stuff that it was going through last night, but there was a lot of it. I think LoGH came up frequently. *sigh* tomorrow's the last day of break and I'll probably be sleeping up to half of it away. On the to-do list is a journal for German and some Norse work.
On the video front, I did a lot of tweaking work today, a couple scene replacements, all that good stuff. I've still got a couple bits to photoshop and then comes the fun of sending prelims to people so they can be reamed appropriately and I can make edits and corrections. I should probably comment on how annoying it is to be working in Huffy. While the video quality's great I'm effectively shut out of doing spot checks in Premiere 'cuz my machine can't fully handle it, so I have to go through the annoying round of edit->export->TMPGEnc->Repeat. I'd do fast divx exports, but I don't trust DivX for anything requiring precision - it's too easy for a frame to get jumped and that throws everything out of sequence.
I'm definately finding this one to be kinda...weak at the beginning. It definately get stronger as it goes on, but I kinda feel like I'm doing too much exposition with the characters and scene so that when the climax hits it's clearer, but it still doesn't feel right. I don't really have the time to spare on letting it sit for a while. Both Otakon and AMA have deadlines that are almost right next to each other and I wanna send this vid to both.
*sigh* I wasted so much of this break in front of the computer that it's not even funny. I really need to get a life and find an excuse to just get out of the house every so often. Maybe I'll go for a walk tomorrow to just enjoy some silence (or cool walking music) and take in the amazing weather that I've been missing due to my time as a lazy slob surfing aodvd, amv.org, ann, and a couple other minor sites. Oh, and checking my email obsessively.
I also need to start reading all these books I checked out from the library. It's all on good stuff, I just need to focus. Add to that drafting up part of my broadcast history paper so that I know how much more dumpster...er...archive diving I need to do.
I think I'll be busy tomorrow then, especially since I have to get this place back into a mindset of 6 people living here and not just me....ugh, eric will be home tomorrow and more than just for an hour or so. My nice quiet zone will be gone +(
Back to life, back to reality... -
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, which way to Neverneverland?
2002-03-29 12:12:01
For some reason I felt like checking the schedule of classes website today 'cuz I'm registering for classes in about 1.5 weeks and Spyral was mentioning it on IRC (#amvdotorg DALnet)...
HIST224 - Military History before 1815 is no longer being offered. Basically this means that my favorite professor has indeed gotten his full time professorship at the national war college and I'm officially fucked for graduating on time with a military history degree.
I guess that I'll be doing Military/Diplomatic as a pairing after all *sigh*
I have to wonder if this is an omen or something. It seems like everything that can go wrong for me when doing scheduling over the last couple semesters has.
tick, tick...boom. - It is my pleasure to inform you that we received your application documents. 2002-03-28 11:17:54 Yup. This came in my email this morning. I'll know in about 2 weeks if I'm going to Austria this summer or not. It's time for some serious hoping here.
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Break is good-nyo
2002-03-25 20:10:18
This weekend was odd for me. I didn't get a lot accomplished, but I did see my mother for the first time in 8 months. After a quick verbal spat and some arguments about politics (and how i don't agree with how she was cursing every time a runner in the marathon with a "free palestine" shirt came by) she randomly gives me money. Not like "go get a drink at mcdonalds" money, but like 1/4 of my monthly budget money. It made arguing a bit more difficult and while I wonder if she was just trying to buy me off or bribe me into behaving, I feel bad thinking that. It caused some stress Sunday but otherwise we're where we have been.
Today I got a lot done. Finished doing tape copying for one person, have to start up for another tomorrow. Also finished timing LoGh 53-54 and the marathon date/time are now set. Finally I've gotten some anime backlog (and frontlog) cleared up. I'll be able to start watching Brigadoon tomorrow.
Tomorrow's worklog looks like:
-Watch some Brigadoon
-Watch some EDF (now that I have all of it)
-Go nuts about not having Macross vol 7 handy
-Work on AMV
-Clean before the LoGH-A-Thon
-Do some norse
-Read for French Revolution
-Run another LoGH tape for someone
-Study German.
-Sleep later than 8:30
Yup, I was really up at 8:30 this morning. Having gotten up so early on Sunday threw my sleep schedule off so I was in bed around 10:45 last nite and up way early this morning. I'll prolly be in bed around midniteish tonite.
Tonite was a bit of fun. I got a msg from one of my friends on IRCnet saying that his girlfriend wanted to hear what I sounded like and wondered if I'd be up for a 3-way call. Me being up for most things to kill time was like "ok, i'll kill minutes on my prepaid calling card" and we talked for about an hour (which is fine, I theoretically had 7 hours left on it when I started the call)...but I feel bad 'cuz it was 3AM when I started the call in their time zone (yup, calling Germany) and I suck too much to have been able to participate in the conversation if we were speaking German. So we talked for an hour or so until his GF got cut off and we wrapped it up and decided to do this again.
Therefore I must figure out when Eric wil *not* be home for an hour and then make my call. I don't need him BS'ing with his underage partner while I'm trying to deal internationally.
My voice also echoed on this call. Very annoying. I also slipped back into my good old nebraska habit of picking up accents. This is bad, especially considering how warped my speech patterns have become after three years of watching subbed anime and 2 years of learning German. I *can* speak properly, but it's not in my regular patterns anymore.
Hopefully tomorrow will be fun - Wednesday sends me to the libraries and Thursday puts me into the archive until the weekend. -
Your Package has left Washington DC
2002-03-21 18:56:40
As the topic says, my forms are on their way to austria, and have probably landed by now and are hopefully going cleanly through customs.
i'm kinda excited about this - if everything goes through ok i'll get to spend a month in europe, and if i'm lucky after that i may get to spend a week or so and try to hop from Strobl over to Vienna and Munich and if I'm really lucky the train can take me far enough up to visit friends in Dresden or Hamburg. On the other hand, I'm kind of scared. The last time I did anything resembling a summer program i was rather miserable...then again the population of rosslyn, ny won't be there this time so that's good. just stay quiet, don't deal with people, and nothing bad will happen. it's an incredibly shinji way to deal with things, but if you don't deal with people you won't piss them off.
So anyways, got a C on my last german exam, was very disappointing. And it still goes to show how much of an overachiever I am: I got an 89.6 on my french revolution exam which is simply not good enough. I don't care that it rounds to an A officially, it's not good enough. Still haven't gotten my nazi europe midterm back yet, but I'm very scared. I need to get my shit together and up my productivity. I've been slacking so much this semester that it's not funny. Eric's bad study habits are rubbing off on me. I guess that after being the good example for two and a half years it's just too tiring to keep up.
I have to see my mother this weekend. I'm not looking forward to it. If my sister wasn't running in the marathon this weekend I'd have tried to find an excuse to get out of seeing her at all, but it's not going to happen. While my relationship with my mother has improved with my no longer living at home, I still have a lot of issues to work out and things to deal with, and hate having to deal with her face to face.
*sigh* at least I have 2 more volumes of macross to watch next week.
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