Gaming
Finished, FITC, and Freedom
So… I’m officially a real person. Or at least I’m supposed to be. I’ve finished college, but I’ve yet to find a job… or even job prospects! I’ll always look back at my time at Seneca College as a good one. There’s been ups and downs, but I’d have to say I’ve been the happiest the last two years, learning to do the work I enjoy doing with people who share the same interests.
I’d like to thank a few people, starting with Samina Patel, Alex Steacy and Danielle Pepin. You kept me sane, you kept me on track, you were my partners in crime, as well as on projects. You were always there when I needed an ear to bitch to, or just a shout out for help on work in the middle of the night. You listened when times were tough, when I felt like giving up, in school or otherwise. Thanks big sis Samina, thank you ARECKS, and thank you Danielle… cause I never call you anything silly. Derp.
Next I’d like to thank Frank Duffy, without you I’d never have gotten that Flash site together in time, and Kim wouldn’t have either.
Also I’d like to thank Laura Kucharchuk, Amanda Davy, and Daria Magas-Zamaria (not that she’ll ever read this, lol) for being super-awesome.
Lastly, I’d like to thank Kimberley Hollett for spending many an all-nighter on work, cracking the whip (people will lol hard at this, but in all seriousness, I wouldn’t be where I am without her) lighting the fire under my ass (same applies to this) being my partner in almost every project possible, being my partner in dinner preparation, being my partner in Brawl, putting up with my sometimes grumpy moods, and being all around the best person ever. I love you. <3
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With that out of the way, after we finished classes, we all loaded up the truck to take our Senestuff to FITC. FITC was three days full of presentations, booths, swag, and dinners out. I manned the Seneca Booth a lot of the time, answering questions for people that came around, converting videos to show on our screens, and trying to get people to blog. Which they didn’t much. (If anyone’s wondering about the skin, Kim couldn’t get the FTP working with the info we were given. -_-; )
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Now for part three, freedom. What have I been doing, what will I be doing? What is next for Craig Follick?
Well, since I got home on Thursday night, I’ve just been hanging out at home, sort of winding down. I borrowed my friend’s PS2 and I’m re-playing my copy of Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil (one of my top five favourite games of all time) to prepare for the remake of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile that’s coming out for Wii next week. Also, Kim bought me Animal Crossing: City Folk and SSX Tricky, so I’ve been playing those too. In the near future (probably tomorrow) I’m going to start building a website for myself, probably simple at first. Finally, my domain will have a little more than just an “Enter the Blog” button! Tuesday, I’m going to a concert with Kim, Ben, Sonja, and Jess, and then I’ll be staying overnight at my place until Wednesday… I haven’t thought much further ahead than that! Job hunting will be soon after, no doubt.
Anyways, I’m gonna go have dinner with my parents now, then go hang with Cindy for a bit, then hang with Nate, Phil and Shayne for a little belated birthday celebration for Nate. Craig, out!
Blah.
I went to the gym again yesterday…
Then I ate half a pizza.
I’m going again today.
Hope it turns out better.
I’ve also gotta write a story tonight for my elective tomorrow. Not excited for that, as I’m super-exhausted today for some reason, despite getting enough sleep. Can’t find a song to cheer me up, and it seems that an extra large coffee wouldn’t help either.
Oh well. Not that I want to be away from Kim, but I really want the weekend to come. I’m in some kind of weird funk today.
Bit.Trip Beat is kind of cool. I haven’t gotten very far but I’m not very good. Could have been that I was slightly buzzed from our green-cider-cause-we-don’t-like-beer night for St. Patties. I’ve never liked chiptune style music, but it just seems to be freaking awesome in this game. More to come on this I guess?
Now… to work on print layouts. Whee!
This Weekend
Woot. I had a good weekend… Friday night was a… social night out… and was a lot of fun. Saturday I went up to visit Cindy… her family’s restaurant is closing soon, but that just gives me an excuse to eat more delicious Chinese food. I’m sad about it closing, because it was such a big part of my high-school life, and such a big part of her family’s life. Since her dad needs a more wheelchair-accessable place and they don’t need the hassle and monetary investment of running the place, I completely understand. Looking over floor plans for new houses was kind of fun, and brought me and Cindy back to our old days in Mr. Poole’s drafting class in high school… what a grumpy old bugger.
We ended up spending most of the night watching old Zero Punctuation videos and a lot of Iron Stomach Challenge and Man Cooking… all while eating a bunch of pizza.
Sunday I finally found some more blank CDs upstairs with the help of my dad, and he gave me one… I went downstairs right away and burnt Grandia 2 to it… popped it in the Dreamcast… and now I’m really addicted to a console RPG for the first time in years. I can’t wait to play it next weekend… so I’m actually getting the PC version right now. Lol.
Well, that was about it for my weekend… wish it could have been a bit longer. For more Grandia 2. I didn’t see Kim much either other than Friday night… because of her work obligations. The ideal weekend would have more of her too!
Also, FML for not spending more time doing digital media.
Updatin’…
So, the last couple of weeks have been busy, not busy, semi-busy… I’m not really sure. I’ve been all over the place lately.
Let’s see… Reading Week / Study Break was last week for me and the rest of Seneca, so I had a week off to… read or study. I did read, though. Go me! It was for a class, though. Actually, A Dirty Job has renewed my love of books, which is saying something. I’ve always loved reading… I read tons of books as a kid… I read at a Grade 12 level when I was in Grade 4… Just somewhere between schoolwork, video games, girlfriend, and the rest of life, the time I used to take for books got phased out. I think I’ll try to phase it back in a bit… even if I won’t be ploughing through the pages like I used to… it’ll probably be good for me!
Also over reading week, I managed to go to the gym. If you actually know me, your reaction to reading that sentence would probably be something like “Gym WUT? CRAIG GYM!?” and then you’d fall backwards out of your chair from the sheer shock of it. Me and exercise are like… two things that don’t mix. I’d say oil and water but that’d be cliche. And they still kinda hang together. If gym was water and I were oil… Oil would have skipped town. But I went. And went on an exercise bike. Samina badgered me into going, but I’m glad she did. Tired legs kinda felt good, not gonna lie. I thought I looked like a bit of a tool in my I-don’t-own-many-pairs-of-shorts cargo shorts, and my regular old street shoes because I only own one pair, but nobody said anything. Or even looked at me funny, really. I statically travelled some six miles on the bike in 20 minutes, which was cool I suppose. Samina and I got out of there once King of Queens came on the TVs. I don’t like King of Queens. I’m not even sure anyone watches it.
So, the “stuff done during reading week” tally has me reading a book and going to the gym so far… it also has me working all day Tuesday. It was such a quiet morning, and it would’ve been great if I’d remembered my book… but I didn’t. I went home to pick it up at lunch, but then I had constant help requests all afternoon, so I was unable to get much reading done. That and the painters had shown up… they were speaking loudly at eachother in Italian so it was hard to concentrate. I say that they spoke at eachother because replies usually consisted of grunts or ‘hmm’s.
I also went to school on reading week. Yes, school. Tim Willison, our Flash teacher, ran a workshop on Wednesday all day. We learned about the Dictionary functions of AS3, and how handy they are. It was fairly fun, and I think I picked up a few things… it was worth going to, I’ll say that.
I managed to contract some spyware or adware or whatever somewhere between using my computer for 5 minutes on Thursday, and then it being off until Saturday night.Which was weird… because I didn’t go anywhere but GMail or Facebook, really… I think I may have dropped by The Escapist forums for a minute, but I trust them. I’m running AdBlock Plus and NoScript in my install of Firefox too, so I don’t even know how it made it by that. I didn’t download anything. I’ve never had ad or spy wares as long as I’ve owned my own computer, so I’m kind of embarassed by it. Spybot Search and Destroy seems to think it’s called Virtumonde, and there seems to be about 2 or 3 variations of it that keep coming up in the scan. I’ve removed it several times over now, even trying to kill it before my computer connects to the internet or even launches anything else when I start it. That seems to work for a while. At least the ads aren’t ads anymore, as they used to come up advertising some bogus anti-virus software and doing that thing that ads do to make stupid people think that they’re part of Windows… I think it’s called being designed to look like standard Windows XP! Doesn’t fool me. It can’t. My theme is different. Hah. I think I’ve nuked most of it… now it just seems to occasionally pop up a window with the title “Windows Internet Explorer”, yet I’m running Firefox so it has a Firefox logo in the top right corner… again, nice try. The window is completely blank, as I’ve scanned like 10 times in 2 days and killed most of the files. It’s terribly annoying. I seem to have gotten rid of it, at least temporarily, for now. I thought I’d got it before, but it just came back a day later. I will not trust it’s totally gone until I don’t see it for at least a week. In the meantime, I’ll just repeatedly scan.
On Saturday, I cleaned my room back home. Like REALLY cleaned it. It’s like, crazy clean now. Like it used to be before I moved out/got lazy. It’s not totally done yet… my “junk table” still has junk, but that’s because I used it to clean the rest of the room… I’ll post a picture of its’ clean prettyness later, maybe. It’s nice to move furniture around once in a while, for a bit of a change. The rest of my house doesn’t really change, except when my parents renovate, so it’s nice for my own little basement domain to switch up.
The end of reading week, I finally got to spend some time with Kim. We’d been apart for most of the week, and I think we were both dying a little inside. Good thing we did, as yesterday we got back to school. The headaches resumed, with an essay for me to write and her brochure printing to mess with. Luckily, that got all done, and we relaxed for most of the night.
I played Opoona for Wii for a somewhat lengthy time last night, much to my enjoyment. Firstly, it was $19.99 at Staples. With Sonja’s discount and generosity, that’s turned into 4 Second Cup coffees. I’ve already bought her one. It’s 1/4 paid off! Yay! Secondly, it’s awesome. It’s cutesy, and takes a lot to get into it at first, with a lengthy intro sequence and sort of guiding you around the first town, but then you’re free to take on missions and fight stuff, using the somewhat unique battle system. I’m really enjoying the fact that the game is basically a full-blown world with all kinds of things going on and many terms and such to remember(which the nerd in me loves), all while staying simple to play and control. You only have to use the nunchuk! I love just sitting back and being able to control the game with one hand. It’s got just the right difficulty curve too. If I were a more hardcore RPG fan, I might find it easy… but its’ difficulty seems to be in the vein of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars so far. I just made it to the second dome. I also have to comment on the music, as it’s extremely reminiscent of Phantasy Star Online, which had an excellent soundtrack. In fact, I think I’ll go get that now for nostalgic value. The game is also similar in feel to that of Phantasy Star Online… although it’s only a one-player experience. Damn, now I just want to get back into that. Still, Opoona is fun.
Damn it all. Just got the pop-up again. For running Winamp. What the hell. Back to scanning for the stupid thing.
Brief Post – Will Update for reals LATER!
I made this, and I like it. Hope y’all do too… (lol @ y’all)
Busy Week – Things I’m Working On…
So, this last week has been pretty busy. Last weekend my Valentines’ plans fizzled out because Kim’s grandma passed out and wound up in the hospital. Kim and I only saw eachother for a few hours, and we were both really tired, so we had a Valentine’s day nap. It was nice. Turns out her grandma had to get a pacemaker put in, and she went in for surgery Sunday night, but she was pretty much out the next day and up and about as usual. A little scary, but I’m glad she’s okay… and that through a magical medical miracle she’ll be okay for years to come!
Tuesday at work was really busy, a lot of people asked me for help with the suites. I got through it, although I didn’t get to work on a lot of work… instead, I wound up working on a vector trace for a bit because it was something I could easily leave and come back to. Kim took me out for dinner at our usual Thai place in the evening, and I enjoyed it very much. It was a nice break from going there with everyone else, and it was good to get out on our own.
Wednesday morning, Project Management was cancelled… and we almost didn’t go until we found out from Samina that our groups had showed up anyways. By the time we got there, our groups were gone… but we worked on some stuff for Aviva’s Print class later in the day. I played some e-mail tag with one of my group members, and then we ended up meeting in the first few minutes of Aviva’s class and delegated our workload. I fired off e-mails to everyone so that they’d all have it in writing, and they’re supposed to have all their parts to me tomorrow. Only one person has sent their part so far. We’re to meet Monday night after Combustion class at 7pm. Hopefully that turns out.
Aviva’s class had us working on fictional brochures for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Mine’s pretty simple so far, but Samina seems to like what I have. I’m not too far into it yet though.
In the evening, Kim and I got down to business on our first real Advanced ActionScripting project. We had to make a tutorial on how to make a document class. I made mine in a .pdf file. I’ll tack it onto the end of this post. I found it to be a good project because I had to go through both actually doing it, and documenting how it’s done as well as how all the different parts of the code work. It was only supposed to be 1-2 pages, but I managed to flesh mine out to 6 plus title page when I added in images and made it easy to use. Overall, an enjoyable assignment I think!
Thursday morning, we had to do a debate in Art and Technology on whether or not the internet isolates people. Our side (Kim, myself, two others) was that it does in fact not isolate people. Our side won by vote of the rest of the class… and not only did we have some good arguments, but the other side seemed very wishy-washy. Their argument was basically “the internet does connect people, and allows you to talk to people all over the world, but it isolates us because there isn’t human contact and stuff”. Two of their group members were prepared, and the other two had no idea they were going that day because they hadn’t checked their Seneca WebMail in a week. How can you go a week without checking it? Silliness.
We spent much of Thursday afternoon finishing up our tutorials, and then we headed off to Flash. We just covered different ways to load different things, and a lot of people shoved off from the class early to “Ninja Pub 12″, a gathering of Digital Media Arts students that happens periodically, and enables networking among the students, as well as the ability to meet other people working in the industry. After Tim was done his talk, we headed there, but it was very loud and everyone was already pretty drunk at that point, and we’d had a long day, so we only stayed about 10 minutes before we headed home.
Friday we went to Motion Graphics and Jasmine was showing us how to put together crazy visualizations in AfterEffects. That looked neat, but I’m still not sure I like AfterEffects as a program all that much. Video has never been my cup of tea, AfterEffects is a little heavy on my poor computer, and I’m just not that into its’ interface. I prefers me Flash.
Anyways, I’m off to celebrate a friend’s birthday soon… I promised myself I’d keep this short because I’ve gotta grab a shower and call another friend to arrange a ride so… that’s all, folks. Toodles.
How to Make a Document Class Using ActionScript 3 and Flash
P.S. – Jet Set Radio’s soundtrack has got me through the week. Kudos to the crazies who scratched and mixed that.
This week
has been friggin’ long for no reason. Don’t know why. It just seemed really long. Sunday night seems forever ago.
Anyways, I did a lot this week. I bought a Dreamcast. I went to many classes. I saw Slumdog Millionaire. I watched Kim get over-spiced on Lamb Vindaloo. I froze to death walking to Steeles Staples only to find that they were out of what I needed. I went on a Viva Orange adventure right after that and froze to death more. Samina liked her birthday present. More lightbulbs turned on in ActionScript class. Sailor Moon is lolz. People seem unable to make plans for the weekend without getting really confused. (Well, just Ben.)
So… the Dreamcast was an excellent investment. I can burn games straight to CDs and play them with absolutely no modifications to the system. It’s awesome. I’ve been enjoying games from my childhood such as Toy Commander and Soul Calibur as well as ones I never got to play such as Jet Grind Radio and Bangai-O. Lots of fun! I can’t wait to play Soul Calibur and Power Stone with Ben and Max this weekend.
Classes this week weren’t terribly exciting, with the exception of ActionScript class last night. We didn’t go to Combustion cause it was just a work period… so after Intro to Print on Monday, Kim and I headed to the grocery store for some dinner supplies and grabbed a pizza for lunch. Wednesday we had two things due in Project Management but they weren’t huge assignments or anything, the rest of the class was kind of a brief on the existence of Microsoft Project and how it’s cool if you… manage projects. Aviva’s Wednesday half of our Intro to Print class was a bit of a work period as well, and we just worked on our business cards with the type logos we’d created last week and had them critiqued by her. After that class we headed out to get Samina’s birthday present, which I’ll explain later.
ActionScript class on Thursday was great. We actually started moving stuff around on the Flash stage, which was great because so far it’s just been placing images and stuff. I’m actually starting to grasp this stuff. It used to be horrifying before, but now it’s starting to make some sense. I think it just took a good teacher like Tim to really get the ball rolling for me. I hope that other people in the class are learning too… because this is a great learning experience while it lasts, and I don’t know if everyone sees it or not. Certainly the people who are visiting our class from the other ones from time to time have noticed I think… I heard they aren’t learning too much in their own class.
Today in AfterEffects, I’m getting confused by the program and sidetracked by blogging. That is all.
Work went pretty well this week. Nothing eventful. After work, Kim, Samina and I went to Cineplex Odeon Varsity to see Slumdog Millionaire in VIP 19+. This meant that the theatre was really small with really comfy seats and waiters. And hoity-toity rich couples who looked at us like we didn’t belong there. Anyway, the movie was great and I enjoyed it a lot. Happy end. I’m not spoiling anything… for the 0 people that read this… but go see it if you can. Or rent it if you read this when my blog actually has readers like a year from now. Lol. Anyways after the movie Kim and I walked all the way to the Annex and had dinner at some Indian place as our usual Thai place was closed (and Indian seemed appropriate after seeing an Indian movie with our Indian friend.). It was pretty good, but the Lamb Vindaloo that Kim usually orders from our usual Indian restaurant was SUPER HOT from this restaurant. I had her leftovers last night with added veggies and a half a can of coconut milk and it still took me a glass of milk and 4 glasses of water just to get through the bowl of it. SO HOT.
Wednesday night, Kim and I headed out to get Samina’s birthday present. We’d decided on the cheapest Wacom Bamboo tablet (as an introductory tablet for her, and incidentally the cheapest one of the bunch and the same one I own). We’d decided on the weekend to get it, but we forgot to ask Sonja to pick it up on Sunday with her 10% Staples employee discount… so we just went out to get it in Toronto. We hiked up from Seneca@York to Staples at Steeles and Keele to pick one up… but they were right out of stock. Of course, it was -13 degrees Celsius out, so we were a little (a lot) pissed and exhausted. We decided to take the VIVA Orange into Vaughan like my room-mate, Patricia, suggested. After hiking back to the university bus stop to catch it, we had some debit troubles but eventually got tickets and got on the bus. If you’ve never rode VIVA… IT’S LIKE, THE FUTURE, MAN. Everything is clean and streamlined and it’s kinda cool for a bus system. We passed a Future Shop and a Wal-Mart Supercentre/Sam’s Club and freaked out… and we were going to turn around until we found a Best Buy, TigerDirect.ca and Staples at the next stop. This proved adequate, as we picked up the tablet from the Staples. Don’t forget, it’s still -13. By the time we’d made it back to the bus Kim was laughing/sobbing at our terrible plight, and her near-hypothermic state. We made it back to the campus in one piece… albeit a frozen one… and made it home and bundled up. Kim’s leg still hurts from the cold a little, we think she got a bit of frostbite. At least Samina liked her present!
Lastly, Kim and I have been watching Sailor Moon episodes out of boredom. It’s funny because like 10 mins of footage is re-used every episode in transformation sequences, and it follows an extremely repetitive formula. I haven’t watched a lot of Sailor Moon before now, and this is really making me appreciate it’s terrible campiness and repetitiveness and… I don’t know. It’s kind of relaxing to watch a fluff show for once. However, I’ll stick to other anime that is good from now on, probably.
Anyways… I’m about to head home for the weekend. I hope it’s full of Dreamcast-playing, hangin’ out, and Combustion homework… but we shall see. Maybe I’ll even find some time to mess around in ActionScript. Woot.
Woot. An Update.
So I haven’t updated in a good two weeks or so. There’s a lot that’s happened… at least in terms of school.
We’ve been doing some print layouts for our Intro to Print classes… for our Wednesday portion we did a 2-page spread in Illustrator. Super Paper Mario seemed like a good subject. It was well-recieved by the teacher when she critiqued it, and I’d say it was one of the better ones in the class. I will upload it with this post in .pdf format. We also did a one page layout in InDesign for our Monday class. I did it on The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. It would look pretty good, if it weren’t for the fact that the project specs called for an outline on an image and a drop shadow on another, so I don’t think I’ll post it. Ugh.
In Combustion class, we’ve been working on doing some lightsaber stuff… which is kind of fun, not terribly difficult, but lame as I’ve never really liked Star Wars. Also we’re not allowed to make purple lightsabers, as our teacher, Gavin, hates the colour. Lamesauce.
I went back to work for this semester on Tuesday, which will now be the day of the week that I work. It wasn’t terribly busy, and I played Konami Krazy Racers for GBA all morning, and then browsed the internet and played DS for most of the afternoon. The help requests were plentiful later in the day.
In Project Management we’ve been giving the new teacher an idea of where we are in terms of Flash skills by recreating a sample banner ad he made. I’d say mine was extremely close to what his was. We’re to bring in our best work to class this coming Wednesday. I’m trying to convince Kim that we should bring in the Racoon site we made last semester, because it’s awesome. I don’t know what other work I’d really want to show. Maybe my frame-by-frame animation from semester 2.
In my Art and Technology elective on Thursday mornings, I’m to participate in a debate three weeks from now about whether or not the internet isolates people or connects them. Kim and I are on the “connects them” argument side. I’ve thought of some arguments but so far I haven’t really written anything down. We also have a project due in two weeks’ time. It’s a research paper and presentation, and the topic we picked to do was “Computer Games that teach us something useful”. I’m particularly excited to show off Crayon Physics Deluxe and World of Goo to a class full of kids that probably think of video games as Halo and Grand Theft Auto. I’d like some more games to show off though… so I’ll have to come up with something. I can’t think of something right off the top of my head, but I’ll talk to my friends Nate, Ben and Cindy and I’m sure one of them will suggest something. My friend Mike might also know of something. I’d best get on it.
In ActionScripting class, our late Thursday night class (5:10 – 8:50 that often goes overtime is considered a late night class!) we’ve been learning AS3 from the ground up. I’m actually beginning to grasp AS3. Really. Because before, the thought of scripting HORRIFIED me and I’m pretty good at timeline animation and tweening so I sort of steered more toward that. I talked to our teacher, Tim Willison of Oddly Studios, and he said that there is room for animators in the industry and he’d show us a way to create a workflow between an animator and scripter that works well for him. That kind of relieved me. I hope I keep picking up ActionScript, because it’d be great if I could actually be good at it. Good career asset I figure.
And finally, our AfterEffects class on Friday has had us dabbling in simple AfterEffects projects, beginning with Slideshows and applying one filter or so to things and making a short animation. AfterEffects seems exciting. As Kim says, if Photoshop, Combustion and Flash had a baby, it’d be AfterEffects. I guess with the marriage of raster graphics, video compositing and keyframed timeline animation in the same program, it makes sense. I don’t know if it’s my cup of tea though, and I also doubt my computer’s ability to run it properly after I messed around in it for a while. I made a 10 second long animation, and it could only render like 4-5 seconds of it before erasing what it had already rendered. I had to actually output the render to a file to see what it looked like. I think my problem was that my image was too big. I’ll try it with a smaller image later. Also what frustrated me about AfterEffects was the fact that I can’t seem to figure out how to save to legacy formats… i.e. saving for CS3 out of CS4. Basically, anything I make in class I cannot look at on my laptop unless I install CS4. Which I don’t want to do because I don’t want to risk losing my only working install of CS3. Also I don’t like CS4… yet? So ha.
In terms of the rest of my life, things are going quite well. I’ve been into Pokemon LeafGreen which I bought used from EB for like $12. It’s pretty cheap for re-living my childhood with pretty graphics. I turned 21 on the 18th, so happy belated birthday to me, I guess. I got Eats, Shoots and Leaves from Kim, which I’ve wanted for a long time. I also got a book about famous left-handed people from Sonja. I love being left-handed. We get special status. 
My mom also got me a cookbook for college students (which I won’t be for much longer…(!)) and a left-handed planner that’s bound on the right side instead of the left so that… you don’t have to deal with annoying binding when you’re trying to write something. People thought I was crazy when I started a sketchbook from the back. I guess one could say that my birthday was left-hand themed. Well, just two gifts, but… yeah. Ben got me Pineapple Express, which I’ve already seen twice now… but I suppose if I’m bored I can see it again and watch the extras or something. I can’t wait until my flashcard for DS (Ben’s (late) Christmas gift (they were sold out)) arrives in the mail though. That should be awesome.
Anyways, if I remember anything else to write about, I’ll certainly post it.
Back to School
I’m back in class today… and my first class of the semester is Intro to Print with Crisp. I don’t doubt the man is knowledgeable but he certainly gets sidetracked easily and provides a lot of useless information. We are fourth semester students, and although most of us have never touched InDesign before, we HAVE touched Photoshop and Illustrator which are probably very similar. He’s going on like we’ve never seen a Mac or an Adobe program before. He also has HUEG doubts about our math skills. To the point that we’re a little insulted. Doah.
I started playing Shin Megami Tensei: IMAGINE yesterday, it’s kind of fun, yet I don’t think I’ll really be getting into another MMO any time soon. I haven’t played one seriously in a long time, and with how hectic and busy things are in my life lately, I’ll probably never find the time. Sad, really… as it has some potential to be a good game. 
I also got World of Goo yesterday… which I was initially skeptical of, but now I think that it’s excellent. If you have a PC, get it. If you have a Wii, get it.
If the annoying dude sitting next to me in class dropped dead on the spot I’d throw a party. Some of us are trying to learn. That is all.
Almost back.
So tomorrow, I start back into my fourth and final semester of college. I don’t know what I’m going to get into after this… hell I don’t even know what I’m going to do for an internship this semester. Over the holidays, besides getting some kind of site started in flash, I didn’t do much else. I’m a little upset that I spent so much time watching 24 and various anime series and not a lot of time getting some work done. I did enjoy the series that I watched though (Gankutsuou, Infinite Ryvius, re-watched a lot of Cowboy Bebop) and don’t regret their awesomeness.
So I’ll probably update after school tomorrow, or possibly on Tuesday when I can find the time. Yay for Tuesdays off. I’m going to try my best at getting to work for A/V on Tuesdays, and Kim’s trying for the Tuesday night spot. If she gets the spot she can quit Galaxy! I’m excited.
Anyways, gonna get started on my last day of winter break, ever, with a nice session of Resident Evil 4, followed by some room cleanage. Woot. Just thought an update was long overdue, although I know nobody reads this. It was long overdue for me.
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