Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Native is Rest-less

Well, I did it. I finally did it. I pulled my first ever for real, authentic, genuine all-nighter. It is now 8:13, I have been working nonstop on either my quilt or my animattion since 3:45. I'll let you figure out how many hours that is, I can't even do that math, I'm that tired.

My plan for the next 1hr45min, consists of....finishing my animation??? PLEASE GOD!!???!? I just have to come up with some sort of ending and then...animate that. Drat. I'm guessing you're all pretty curious about this animation, don't worry I'll try to post it. I wonder if I can...ooohh...interesting. Righto. Speaking of my plan for the next 1hr43min.....better stop lollygagging. More from me later perhaps.

I feel kind of wierd, is this what serious sleep depravation is like? I've always said that I "like" my sleep, now I feel how badly I "need" it. oof.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Don't be frightened

Ok, so maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that bit about the Ramen noodles, I seem to be scaring everyone. Perhaps I should also not mention that I've reached the Laundry Threshold as well, I'm wearing a skirt. Yes. It's that bad. After 3 o'clock next wednesday I should have my life back, so I should be able to eat, sleep, clean myself, clean my clothes and clean my ROOM. Seriously, you should see my room, it has a little path through the debris. From my door to my bed, from my bed to my computer, from my computer to my closet.

Last night I was debating going to bed or doing more work on my animation, so I decided to pray my night prayers and guess what the psalm was? Psalm 127, one verse being:

"It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil-- all this God gives to his beloved in sleep."

So I went to sleep. Thank you God ;) After all, "God wants His loved ones to get their proper rest."


I probably won't post, with any discernable stability of mind, until next week. And then my summer postage rate will begin, which is probably going to be pretty rare. Everyone can pray that I get a really good internship!!! I'm waiting for an email from an Ann Arbor design firm, I talked to the owner and he said they were still "debating" what to do for the summer. I take that as a sign that they're considering interns, which my teacher had said was unlikely since they're so small. So please!!! Consider me!!! I know your best friend's daughter!!! (apparently one of the freshmen who is applying to Graphic Design this semester and got the same degree as me from WCC, is this Designer's best friend's daughter!!!! So I talked her up (maybe I should go hunt her down and have her call her dad's best friend and tell him what a great intern I'd be). I'm confused, what is the status of my parenthetical comment? Nevermind. Must finish designing pancake package.

WAAAAHHHHHH

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

I have Reached the Ramen Threshold!!!

well. Lack of money and starvation combining equal: Ramen Noodles. Much as I have tried to avoid them since my first year of college, I fear they shall make a vengeful reappearance these next weeks. Sadness will ensue. I still have a few cans of off-brand bean w/bacon, but that supply is dwindling and I can no longer resist the 20/$1.00 price of Ramen "No Health Benefits" Noodles.

Food Satisfaction: Rest in Peace.

Also, I think I should give up snacking for Ordinary Time too.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Model T...Finito!

I thought you all might enjoy seeing my model T tea package, in it's completed stage. Yeah baby, I SO got an A on this project. And spent fifty bucks. But also got complimented on it in Junior Review. Yeah baby. Anyhoo. Enjoy, that's about the best thing to come out of me this semester. Perhaps excepting my quilt...I finished piecing!! Now I shall hit Field's and pick out some colors for the borders. Anything goes! Woot Woot! I'm skipping Graphics 4 because I can't do any work on my animation here at school until I finish doing all the drawing for it at home (with my Wacom tablet...ahhh...wacom...). So, anyhoo. later.

FRONT


BACK

Monday, April 17, 2006

This is me not posting...

because...I'm dead. I am five minutes past the time I wanted to go work on my quilt. Oh well. I will share with you my to do list:

1. Quilt!!!! Piecing, batting, quilting...yes...
2. Animation! Uh...drawing, photoshopping, Flashing...
3. Pancake Package!! REDOING the dang thing because of accursed "file corruption" then creating the bag
4. ? there's something else...


Righto! wish me luck!


HE IS RISEN!!!! (so who cares about the above mentioned stupid things) (well, I care, but not as much)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Oh dear. Oh d-d-d-dear dear.

Well I have a lot of things to do today. And in case you were wondering, posting on my blog was not one of them. Oh well. I am a little ahead of schedule since I thought my little wooden labels would take longer to make. I misunderestimated my speed and skill. Ha ha.

Bad news of the day: one of my projects from Graphics 1 is GONE. Disappeared, vanished, vamoosed. This causes me nervousness because we have to include ALL projects from EVERY class we've taken. (for some reason I just thought of Star Wars: "Shut them ALL down!"). I'm going to talk to a prof and ask her how terrible it would be for me not to have my Grid project from GD1. My only idea was to redo it without telling anyone because it's not likely that the prof will remember what they looked like...but the Honest Abe in me is saying that that would be a mistake. Plus, we're supposed to show improvement and I'm sure if I redid them now I'd do some killer grids, and they'd get suspicious because basically all of my GD1 work sucked. Hmmm... dilemnas.

Good news of the day: uh. I didn't have to get up early. But I still did because I turned the wrong alarm on! I have two alarms on my CD player and one is always set for 6:15 for a normal week, but since this week is spring break at work, I've been using my other alarm (set for 9). So, I turned on the 6:15 one naturally. I think this was supposed to be a good news section, and I'm complaining, hmmm. Well, I did go back to sleep for another 2 hours and that was almost as fun as not waking up at all. Oh, here's some good news (sort of I guess), remember my poetry book from last semester? Bob Dylan? Well, remember my irritation at the grade/teacher of that class? So I redid the dratted book for review last night, got it all printed at copymax (CURSE YOU BLUE VESTS!!!!!) for the modest sum of 10.59 and cut it on their nice little razor cutter thingy. All in all the redo only took me about 4 hours. Mwa haha. And not a typo in SIGHT!!!! Hot DAMN!

Dreams: lately I've been dreaming a lot of doom and gloom, probably on account of Junior Review on friday. The other night I dreamt that my hard drive fell off my desk and started bleeding everywhere and I was trying frantically to stop the blood saying to myself "Pressure! put pressure on the wound! Oh no, please don't die! Don't die on me!!!!!" It was a little odd. But now every time I look at my hard drive I see the oozing blood coming out of it. I don't like to have humanfied objects.

Cigars: so I went to Meijers yesterday on my way home from CopyMax. I managed to only spend 8 bucks (milk, yogurt and granola).....at first. Then I walked past the Tobacco stand....Ok, a little history. On Friday is my review (I've only mentioned it four times so far) and I had decided that when it's over I'm going to need some serious unwinding, I also decided that this unwindage would take the form of smoking a cigar on my front porch. I was informed by several people that my leftover Swisher Sweet (from a girls night last summer) would not at all satisfy this goal of mine. A few weeks ago you may recall, I went to the Guys house and we smoked these cigars called "Black and Milds" yes, awesome name, whatever it means. They were pretty tasty and celebratory and cheap. So back to Meijers, I walked by the Tobacco/Lotto station and saw the B+Ms there, hmmm...consumerism set in and I decided to purchase them. Only, of course I didn't want to just go up to the counter and say "I'll take a pack of Black and Milds please." Oh no, Meijer Lady might think I was a regular smoker. So I went to the counter and said "Uh, do you sell individual stamps here?" "No, you've got to go to the machine down there" "Oh, ok. Well. Oh then I guess I'll take a pack of those uh, Black and uh....Milds?" Yes, very smooth, very naive. I felt so wicked. But at least I am now in possession of celebratory Cigars for such occasions as Reviews and babies.

Holy Heifer, it's 12:17, and I've got to get PRINTING!!!! See a good deal of you on Saturday! That's the day after review by the way.

Monday, April 03, 2006

A Heffalump or Woozle's very sly sly sly sly!

I'm a dirty rotten scoundrel. But that's what is called for when I fight in such a desperate battle against such nefarious foe!

The battle is such: in the art labs the "Computer Technology Support" CTS for short (stands for Cranky Troubled Souls) have posted signs stating that "no paper other than that put in by the Lab Techs is allowed. Failure to comply will result in loss of lab privileges." Yes. They actually say "failure to comply." Those are words I expect to hear come from the mouth of Governor Tarkin. This leads to difficulties for the Design students. Our professors have pounded into our brain the fact that the paper "put in by the lab techs" is crap. You know saran wrap? yeah, it's about as opaque as that. You know filo dough? yeah, it's about as thick as that. So basically, if you try to print on it, anything, and try to turn it in, you will get laughed at. And then graded down. Do the lab techs care? Do they realize that we actually KNOW how to change the printer settings? do they realize that this is what we DO? print is our primary media! Honestly!? But "Failure to comply..." the words hover like a bee poised to sting an unsuspecting and innocent young child, happily playing barefoot in the sandbox.

But Lindsey, you ask, surely...surely YOU comply!? Surely YOU do not risk the loss of your lab privileges by placing paper of your own questionable choice into the very delicate and highly strung printers??? Surely YOU follow the carefully considered policies laid out by people miles away in the IT department basement?

Hell. no.

Apologies. Sometimes situations call for mild profanity. This is one such situation. Many of you know that I have Junior Review in four days. Some of you know that I am redoing some projects for that review. None of you know that I am actually pretty on target with my projects and ready to print. I cannot, WILL not show a poetry book printed on frickin saran wrap filo dough paper. So, today the battle was waged.

I brought my nice laser paper (honestly, it's not wierd paper, it's not like i'm trying to print on rabbit skin or something) cleverly concealed in a black folder. I carefully scanned the lab for a Blue Vested One. Scan completed, I went back into the graphics room to get my hard drive. I informed some classmates of my plan (a common plight, we all struggle against) and was informed of a new tactic employed by said Blue Vests! Namely: NO BLUE VESTS!!!! Yes! They are going UNDERCOVER!!! Just last night one of those sneaky Woozles busted said classmate for putting transparencies into the printer. Busted! By a streetclothes techie! Their evilness knows no bounds. So...no longer safe from the Unvested Blue Vests, I had to employ another method. Strike back with similar sneakiness!

I got my file ready to print...then casually, oh so casually, wandered to the printer and quietly, oh so quietly, placed my paper into the actualy tray. Most people get caught at this point because they try to load their paper into the Manual Feed tray. A very obvious sign to the Vest that something not quite up to their snuff is going down beneath their nose. My method allows for no visible alteration of the printer. I returned to my illustrator file and proceeded to say Print...print print print print....If I tie up the printer with my jobs then I'll be sure to get my paper out of there before anyone else has a chance to print on it. Ha! Success!!!! I now hold in my hand the 24 pages of my Bob Dylan poetry book...on Laser Paper!!

Tune in next time to find out if our Heroine is able to print on Vellum....