Muppets rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A

And the flurry begins. I have so much to do in the next 2 weeks, it's scary.

Thanksgiving was nice. Went to a movie with Mom, as is our Thanksgiving tradition, and saw Bolt. I figured it would be an investment in my pursuits as an animator/artist, but it was surprisingly not bad. Besides, we'd seen Changeling which was great and Australia had gotten less than enthusiastic reviews, so Bolt was our hope for a good movie. Definitely not disappointing. After the movie, we headed to Mill Valley for dinner with the family at the Buckeye Roadhouse. Food was good, ate too much. It was nice to see everyone again and I'm looking forward to another visit at Christmastime.

Eric and I ran around town for Black Friday madness, and had some good luck with Fry's, burritos and Wii brain games. I didn't get as much done for school as I had wanted to and had to make up for it later. Fell when bouldering on Sunday (yeah, it was my first time), which was shocking and embarrassing. Happy to be mostly intact, though it hurt to move my neck/shoulder the next day and I had to get it fixed.

I have a nice laundry list of things to do before school is over, so I'm trying to budget my time and pace myself wisely. I have to:

Finish posing, animating, lighting and rendering my model for 3D animation.
Draw the last 150 panels for story boarding,scan them, crop them and time them.
Upgrade my flash game and/or website and put it on the school server.
Finish the last exercises and quizzes for 3D spatial visualization.
Write the Phi Theta Kappa leadership hallmark essay.
(Semester ends. Breathe a little.)
Make more logo versions for Shelby's wedding.
Draw assets for the game project, post them to the wiki.

I'm probably forgetting some stuff, lots of stuff. I don't know when/if I'll be making Dickens, depends on how my projects go. Want to see people, hang out, make things and finish personal projects and take a little roadtrip maybe.

Preparing to be busy, see y'all in a few weeks.

Still not dead yet.
I feel fine. I feel happy!

School is good, and as always too much to do in too little time. I'm enjoying my classes a lot (in between projects). My 3D modeling and animation class is really interesting, though I think I enjoy modeling more than I like animating. We'll see if it sticks.

I'm down to 2 jobs now instead of 3, which is a welcome relief, but I'm having to stretch my budget impossibly thin to make it work. Bleah.

The b/f and I are still happy campers, which is great.

Don't know if I'll do anything for my birthday, I'm still reeling from the fact that it's already October.

On an October note, I have a Gold Pass to Great America, which means that I get to go the Halloween Haunt for free, with free preferred parking. YAY! Except that I don't know if anyone would want to go with me. =/ I've got some coupons for discounted tickets and, better with notice, I have someone that can get me $25 tickets (as compared with the $40 normal entry cost). So if anyone is interested in tagging along, that could be fun! I tried going by myself and it was, well, sad-making. Much better with friends, so let me know if you want to be that friend. =p The haunt was pretty cool, I'm looking forward to going on Halloween with the K's.

It's been a while since I last posted, so let's recap. The holidays were really, really busy. I was working 4 jobs for a while which got kinda nuts and somehow still didn't get the result I wanted, namely, to be out of debt. Still got a ways to go there, but hopefully by summer I'll be clear. I felt like a big jerk that I couldn't buy people Xmas gifts this year and that I didn't even have time to write out Xmas cards. I was/am still so busy that I even forgot that a friend is getting married in August and was surprised when he wanted to send me an invite. I think my brain must be  pushing out the significant personal information in trying to absorb school/work junk. (Sorry Seth, I've since remembered you sharing the news with me.) I suck at this stuff. =/

So, I still have 3 jobs, which is more manageable than it sounds when they're all super part time.  My lab job is cutting hours though, so I think I might try to tutor more to compensate if I can find more students. We'll see how that goes, and if it doesn't work out, maybe I'll sell a kidney. Or not.

School has been in session for a few weeks now and I'm enjoying most of my classes, though it frustrates me when teachers teach right out of the book (especially when it's Adobe software and I know how to read, so teach me something I can't find in this book).  Flash will probably be my favorite class this semester, though Illustrator promises to be interesting.  Dreamweaver is still in the introductory phases and it's frustrating for me to wait for people to catch up since I had some experience with it last semester, but hopefully we'll get to the new stuff soon. Because it's still early in the semester, homework is manageable and my workload is stable. In the back of my head I'm dreading when all my classes will have beefy midterm projects, so the best I can do is stay on top of it now while I can. It's a 15 unit semester, which isn't the worst I've ever done, but with the job thing, it could be tricky.

Eric and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on Thursday. I bought him a hermit crab, which we have named Destrudo and have since gotten Destrudo a friend, which I have dubbed Davy Jones because he's got a peg leg (he's an amputee). We also got our friend Toni a baby bearded dragon for a super belated Xmas gift/not-so-belated anniversary gift, which she named Dylan. If we get more hermits, perhaps we'll continue with the "D" name theme. Destrudo and Davy are really social, which I hadn't expected, and they're super cute, which I also didn't expect. Maybe it's their anime-ish characteristics, ie. big eyes and no mouth. *shrug* Regardless of why, they're just as cute as they are creepy and we're looking forward for to them getting big enough that they can run around in their hamsterball with ease. Er, crabball with ease.

I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but maybe I'll post again later. When I have time.

I have 3 jobs now, soon to be 4 if things work out with scheduling. I'm concurrently working on final projects for school, and soon school will end (the week of the 21st) and the job that goes with it will be suspended til late January. Then I'll be down to 3 jobs. One of them is seasonal to compensate for the loss of the on campus job, so when school starts up again, I'll still have 3 jobs. Yes, I'm crazy. And tired. But I really really really want to be out of debt, so this is what I've chosen to do. Everyone is being really supportive, and somewhat skeptical that I can maintain my sanity, and I think I'll survive. Also, as a result of this madness, people are getting handmade gifts this year, if I have time to make them. =/
I'm determined to make it to Dicken's Faire this Sunday, before work #3 starts in the evening. I'm also going to try making it to the New Years Eve ball again after work #2 or #3 ends (not sure which it'll be yet, they haven't given me the schedule), though I may be tired at both events. Forgive my fatigue, I'm a busy girl.

I'm not dead. Getting over a cold and really busy, but not dead. I miss dancing, fighting, sewing and doing all the fun things that I was doing before school started (yeah, back before when I had time and money), but things are a little difficult at the moment, so a second job is forthcoming. I'm currently a lab assistant at the college I'm at (where I'm studying graphic design, oooo, yay photoshop) and my free time is spent working on homework, toiling at work, or helping Eric with philosophy that induces spontaneous brain combustion.  As a second job is necessary and probably will be necessary through the holidays, I'll probably have even less time for all the fun stuff I haven't touched in months. Joy. So, if I haven't seen you in forever and a day, my apologies, I suck at this. But on the upside, this nonsense can't last forever and I should be available again in ... 2008. Hopefully. But, as I spend most of my day in front of a computer, you can email me if I'm truly missed.  If I'm not missed, I won't be too broken up about it, so don't worry.

Oh. And Elonwy is the cutest penguin. Ever. =p

Current eye color: Blue green
Current song stuck in my head: The theme to the Muppet Show
Current temperature: Warm

Normally, I only see purple or (recently) blue hair when I visit Anna, but this weekend there were brightly colored wigs everywhere I glanced. Of course, I was at Fanime Con and there were cosplayers galore. Yikes. So...much...glomping....ew. I was on staff for the E-gaming room, hanging out and helping watch over the gaming equipment with Eric and his buddies Brad, Cheetoh, Robert, Spanky and Matt. Met new cool people, like spritely Justin, and am looking forward to hanging out with these guys again. 
Briefly visited Baycon and a few cool people there, but the Marriott's space is so claustrophobic, I couldn't stay long before I had to shoot back down to San Jose anyway. 
More to follow. Eventually.

Current eye color: Blue green
Current song stuck in my head: Nothing
Current temperature: Too much office AC.

It's been nearly a month since my last update and much has happened. I'm 99% recovered from my sickies, though I still cough sporatically when I lay down and my ribcage/lungs seem really sensitive to pressure. I'm likely to find a respiratory specialist and get checked out, just in case. Note: I take my chest/lung health seriously as I had a spontaneous lung collapse 4 years ago and have been jumpy ever since.
Eric and I went to the opera a few weeks ago in San Jose and saw Madame Butterfly. I was unfamiliar with the story until I realized that I'd seen Miss Saigon some years ago, and that they were in the same boat. Though between the two, I'd take the opera any day. After the opera, I kept thinking of the Invader Zim quote "The pants command me!" may have had inspiration in traditional Japanese noble's clothing....
Eric, his classmate Robin, Brad and I made a zombie movie that Saturday. I did Eric's and Brad's makeup (more original Night of the Living Dead style than anything else) and that was way cool! We wrote the plot/script on the fly, and our zombies liked cookies, if that tells you anything. Eric = Zombie Stud! =D
Went to Gaskell's that Saturday and, although I've only been there a few times, that was the most lightly attended Gaskell's I'd ever seen. Wow....so much space! Christophe and I got in a few good swing moves in the middle of a waltz in the side wing, so awesome!
Had dinner with friends and family that Sunday at Skates in the Berkeley Marina. The dinner was amazingly tastey, the company was great and the atmosphere was wonderful (amazing sunset with the oceanside view, highly recommended). 
The following Saturday, we had a birthday get together for Brad at Malibu Grand Prix/Mini Golf/Arcade Castle in Redwood City. After a rousing round of mini golf (I drew pictures in my score box instead of tallying score), Eric and I tested out the bumper boats, promptly giving the presummer heat the finger. There was less bumping than I'd have preferred, but it was still fun (Do NOT take that statement out of the context of bumper boats!) We hit a few homers in the batting cages and played air hockey, and basketball, etc in the arcade. We got enough tickets together to all get minibubbles and blowing bubbles outside in the afternoon sun was magical. Christina and Anna joined us for dinner and dessert at Max's, which was full of Victorian word games and tastey key lime pie, cherry cobbler, chocolate fantasy cake and other treats. So tastey....
I've started constructing my own sword sheath and handle from hard maple with my friend Jan in Berkeley. It promises to be a great experience and I like triggering the memories of middle school shop class. 
And now, to shopping, dinner and dancing! Onward!

Current eye color: Bluegreen with grey highlights
Current song stuck in my head: Closet Disco Dancer by The Red Elvises
Current temperature: Warm

Been pretty sick recently, but I seem to be recovering. Worked part of friday, but didn't have the energy for dancing. Spent the weekend sick in Berkeley, missing Red Carpet Ball and Easter in St. Helena, but Eric took great care of me, so it was ok. We spent many hours curled up in front of the laptop watching the first season of Deadwood. I really like the characters, but wow, do they need therapy. And lots of hugs. Lots and lots of hugs.
Also, Eric turned 23 yesterday, huzzah! Eric, his roommate and I went to dinner at Spenger's, which had tastey fish and chocolate baggies filled with passionfruit goo and berries. Mmmm...scoopin' the goo.
I hope to be well enough for dancing this weekend, as well as catching up on all the sewing and stuff I've been missing. And now, to work!

Current eye color: Blue with green edges
Current song stuck in my head: The first track of the cd Eric gave me....I can't remember what it's called.
Current temperature: Not warm enough

Does anyone know a good massage therapist? My neck has never been quite right following the car accident, and it's been getting more....annoying.  I'm pretty uncomfortable and want to get it fixed before I decide to just amputate.

I am Vanilla Flavoured.

I am one of the most popular flavours in the world. Subtle and smooth, I go reasonably with anyone, and rarely do anything to offend. I can be expected to be blending in in society

Current eye color: Blue green and sleepy
Current song stuck in my head: It's not over by...some band on the radio.
Current temperature: Really cold

Super quick update because I have to sleep now. I'm alive and have been to see the doctor following the car accident over the weekend. Got a CT scan and it was normal, so I'm just recovering from a mild concussion. Joy. Well, I guess it's better to get the bad stuff out of the way at the end of the year. More to follow later, like details of accident, morbid fashionation scrambling, new year resolutions and haikus! Now for resolution #1, Sleep!