This journal is a mixture of my artistic and my personal thoughts.

Whereas many entries will be available to be seen by the public, there will be many posts that will not be available to be seen by anyone other than friends. And because they are very personal, my friends will be chosen wisely.

haven't posted in a while

school has been busy

oh wow

so busy

with finals looming ahead

i have to go for a checkup at the doctors

whatever i had last quarter is coming back


yay for me

So it's been almost a month since I posted last. A lot has happened. Little talks with Bakia - lots of classwork to do.

The 4th 24 hour challenge was last night. I had class yesterday morning so I was here at 8 .... and I'm still here cause I have work. ... YAY!


Hey. I just noticed I have one Livejournal message. Huh?

Finals are over.

GOODBYE BREW! Fucking Brew. I am done with that Bitch's class. And she's in this class right now doing her grades.


Whore.

Finals are almost over.

I went to bed at 4:30 in the morning Monday night/Tuesday morning. Ended up waking up at 7:55. I had to be to work by 8. Ooops. Thank god I work at the school and my boss is awesome.

My book was finished by 4 - Due at 11. Turned out that only half of the class had the book finished - let alone bound together. There was a judging by our teacher, one other teacher, and our academic director. They chose the top 3 books. The prizes for the top 3 are a set of Copic Markers, a big ass sketchbook, and a big pad of bristol board.

For an art student in this school, those are all VERY good prizes.

Come to find out, Rebekah, Ashley H and myself have the top 3 books. Which is very odd because our teacher HATES Ashley and I... Oh well. We're not supposed to know - but I have skills. We don't know the order though - or if she's going to change it before we have class - considering she acts all nice in front of other teachers and our academic director.

So that's good news.

We didn't have to stay in class today either. We dropped off our books and got to leave.

I walked out in the hallway. Put my bag on the floor and ran up and down the hallway waving my hands in the air screaming "YAYE!"

>smile<


Bad news is... I have a final due at 8 o'clock in the morning. ACTUALLY, 9 o'clock since class is starting late, but still. It is currently almost 2 AM. I'm not freaking out JUST yet.

YET.

My timing is set up. My characters have stick figures placed in the scene. I just need to flesh them out. It's pretty simple too. I was making it hard on myself by trying to be PERFECT but I realized that it's just gotta get finished. Regardless of how it looks.

I also gotta do model sheets. I did the turnaround WEEKS ago. I drew out the expressions today in my sketchbook. I still gotta do the action poses. THANK GOD I decided to make these characters SUPER simple.




Oh a crappier note. I spent $92 on groceries and 2 days later, I had to go to the convenient store and buy more bread because Bakia has been going through it like crazy. Now somebody I live with has been eating my bread - the loaf is half gone. IN ONE DAY while I was at school. So that doesn't make me very happy.



But yeah, let me get off here and get back to doing my work.

So the final week of school is here. And I'm going to try not to rant about one particular teacher.

So I haven't been able to find time to make up the few homeworks from Critical Thinking that I need to make up.

My Intermediate Animation class is not so far on the back burner as Critical Thinking, but still there non-the-less. The frames and movements are all mapped out. The background is done. I just need to go in and lay in the characters.

They're really simple looking characters. The only hard thing left to do at this point is lip syncing to the audio.

That's supposed to be due on Wednesday. But we may not have class AGAIN because of portfolio. So we may have until Friday to finish and email him the finished animation.

Now, for Advanced Drawing. The class that I am trying not to rant about.

I have SOO much work to do. And not a lot of time.

I have to finish this Comic/Animation book.
Requirements (What I Have) :
- 8 Pages (9pages)
- 3 Colored Backgrounds (7)
- 1 Worm's Eye View (1)
- 1 Bird's Eye View (1)
- 1 Foreshortened Panel (1)
- Dramatic Cloth? (LOTS)
- 3 "Animated Sequences" (4)
- 3 "Animated" Head-turns? (2 - Oops.)
- 3 Silhouettes (4)

I'm done with my pencils at this point. My inks will be started today (though I wanted to finish those yesterday). At least 3 backgrounds HAVE to be in color, so I'll ink those first, so I can print a copy of those inks so I can color tomorrow. Any extra time tomorrow will be for inking (if I don't finish today) or doing animation or whatever. Monday, when school is open, I'll get my stuff lined up to print. Head home early so I can bind... actually... I'll bind the cover - OHH! and design the cover tomorrow - but I'll bind the cover and bring it with me to school just in case they fuck up my printed pages.

I want all of that binding and stuff DONE by Monday night before I go to bed. I don't have a lot of time, but it should be plenty to get what I need done. I'm not NEARLY as far behind as some people. I don't have any fears of NOT finishing - I just need to work on it.

Instead - about my teacher.

I don't even feel like dwelling into the whole story.

But she dropped me from the class 2 weeks ago and decided to tell me today.

She gave me 4 absences - thus I'm dropped.

Two are from the two days at the hospital. One if from a day I had a seizure at work and went to class and told her I wasn't feeling well and she told me to leave. And the last is from a day that 2 friends and I came back from lunch late... she marked me absent even though I was in class.

SHE DIDN'T MARK THEM ABSENT!!

So now I have a final for her due Tuesday.

I have a final due Wednesday.

I have make up work due Tuesday for another class.

PLUS I have to write this appeal letter to not be dropped.


Fucking bitch ass teacher.
Totally going to get her fired.

so while i wait "patiently" for my boyfriend to finish with what he's in the middle of (talking to someone else on meebo, browsing his photobucket, and posting in his new 3d forum for the school)... i decided to search around and get a new layout for my livejournal

including a new mood theme as well


i'm about to walk out. going home.


peace!



[edit] so the someone else ended up being his ex and i got so tired of waiting - that i left without him. he caught up with me and we sorted everything out - hopefully now he realizes i can't just let him get away with everything anymore.

So a lot of stuff has been going on in the family. A cousin of mine, Michael, that I met for the first time last year - he's 29 I believe - was in an accident over the weekend. He apparently was driving drunk and hit a car head-on at a speed of about 100 miles per hour.

He's currently still in the hospital - with a 25% chance of survival. I just got of the phone with my mother - they've put him in a drug induced coma and cut a gigantic hole in the top of his head to relieve some pressure from his brain but his chance hasn't gotten any better. His pupils are responding to light, but there's a large possibility that he's brain dead. If he survives this, he'll be a vegetable for the rest of his life.

And I was talking to my grandma about it the other day and she seemed really upset on the phone. And not just because it's her nephew-in-law, but it's hitting a little too close to home for her. My Aunt Robin died in a car crash - it'll be 29 years on Tuesday. So I have to remember to call her and give my sympathies.

So my thoughts go out to my cousin Dee and her son Michael.

But also to my Grandparents.
I never want to know the pain of loosing a child.

i have so much work to do

i really am stressing out now

my animation isn't done

my model sheets are not all finished

i haven't STARTED my advanced drawing work

i haven't written my essay and thus, haven't started my presentation

just a reminder to myself :

- Advanced Drawing :
- 3 Panel Book Environment (worms eye, birds eye, eye level) Due Feb 28?
- Mythical City (3 views) Due March 4?
- FINAL BOOK Due March ?

- Intermediate 2D Animation :
- Comedian Lip Sync Due March 3
- Comedian Model Sheet/Action Poses/Expressions Due March 3
- Final Project Dual Character Model Sheet Due March 3

- Critical Thinking :
- Final Paper Presentation March 4
- Final Paper Due March 4
- Make Up Journals Due ?

did a bookbinding demo in class today - i already knew how to do it so i breezed right through it

but apparently i left my headphones - my nice new ones - in the classroom





gone.

shitty end to a otherwise great day


thanks


thanks a lot

My roommate is silly. I was at work today and all of a sudden she comes to my job and she's wearing this bag on her head with a silly little face on it.

Happy Face Bag
Sad Face Bag
LOVEZ TWIZZLERS


AND NOW ON VIDEO : DANCE

She's doing a presentation in her Psychology class about Bipolar disorders.

Oh man. SO FUNNY!



In other news I'll be updating AGAIN in a bit with some other videos that I'm uploading to YouTube. Tillman's Wedding. Other silly videos that I found on youtube and such things.

So... we've been thinking about getting apartments right?

We can't move into the apartment without first breaking our lease with housing ($2000) and paying whatever down payment the apartment requires. Of course, payment requires money. Money Robyn doesn't have. Money Bakia and Courtney don't have. We have money if we transfer funding from Housing to Independent Housing... which we can't get until we get into the apartment.

>sigh<

So I was chatting with Ashley this morning. I told her about the housing bullshit and whatever. Apparently her mother is still thinking of renting out their other house.

3 Bedroom
2.5 Bath
2 Floors + Basement
Living Room
Dining Room
Full Kitchen
Laundry Room
Backyard

$1000 a month
Split 3 ways
No down payment


ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!

Only issue is the 45 minute commute.
Bakia seems interested.

We told Ashley to go talk to her mom about it.

I'm hoping.

I've always had a movie library in my house. Since we're hopefully getting our own apartment within a month or two - and planning on having an "office," I also wanted to have an extensive library.

We're animation students - we need reference right?
( right? )

I've been having an okay day/week....

until about 10 minutes ago.

I've been dealing with emo ass people all fucking day and now I'm goddamn tired of it.


Just because weekends tend to make you "think more" about stuff doesn't mean that you can get all pissy and take it out on me.


It'll all hit close to home when I start to actually stay at my own house without you.

"Think" about that.

this stuff is fun




i'll link to all the ones my roommate made too




but for now....








[edit : inset lj cut as to not break my layout]

I got my hospital bills in the mail.

Now, I went twice.

Tuesday's bill alone is $1,689.20

Ha!

And the payment is due on the 16th.