Current location:	Dee Jay's desk
Current mood:	rejuvenated
Current music:	Louis C.K
Entry tags:	animation, mcad, relaxation, rest, spring break

It can't be!! NO!!
I can't believe spring break came and went the way it did! *sob*
Not that I'd done anything spectacular worth blogging about. Since Saturday, I've been going to bed at around 12, getting up between 12-2 in the afternoon, and taking walks outside. We'll go out on a whim, Dee Jay took me to the Utrecht art supply store downtown and I got some new ink pens and had a nice walk downtown. We also got some really yummy food at an asian supermarket in St. Paul. So, I need to go back to one of the closer ones here on Eat Street and stock up on pork buns, red bean mochi and lap cheong (chinese sweet sausages) which are soooo delicious it's not even funny. Slice those suckers up really nice and thin with some white rice...seriously, it's my new favorite breakfast.

I've done some homework (not as much as I should've been but whatever, it's spring break) but what's been killing me over and over that I've actually been working on since last week is my sound animation homework that was due...oh, LAST FRIDAY. Not that I wanted to bring it in late, it's just that I seem to have scanned in paper that Satan made I think. I spent days, weeks, storyboarding, character designing, looking at convincing run cycles and then putting the time into the drawing and getting good magazine clippings for the 2d pieces of it. The thing was working out well. Things were looking good and then I go to render it and...

it crashes.

Not only does it crash, it saves a bad copy of what I've done, and closes the AE program alltogether. I start it again, do it over, go to render it and CRASH again. It wouldn't bother me as much if it werent for the fact that it was crashing and dying and NOT letting me complete the thing for about 10 hours. I go to class as soon as I find out the teacher is there and I'm standing there looking at him, with my hair messed up, in my pajamas pretty much, with huge bags under my eyes because I've been working ALL NIGHT on trying to figure out why the damn thing wasn't working, just hoping for an answer to all my stress.

It's a sad day when your own teacher has no idea what you did wrong.

Thankfully, he told me that I seemed sincere enough in my dilemma and gave me the break to work on it. And did you know it's taken up till TODAY to actually find out that the solution to the thing that's been giving me all this grief and stress was a friggin' layer overlay problem. OMG I just about wanted to throw my computer out the window and switch my major to fine art studio. At least I don't have to worry about all this crap when I'm drawing and painting, lol.

I can't wait to get this thing done because I don't want to touch it anymore for the rest of my life, lol!

Other than that, things are great. I've forgotten about the luxury of nothing and how good it feels to be a part of it, lol! I know that I'm sort of dreading going back to school, but at least I've had almost 8 full days of rest and relaxation and recooperating from all the stress and pain from school lol! Now I think I'm ready to take on the last 6 weeks of school.

Can you believe it?? 6 more weeks!!! Whooo hooooo!!!!