Playing Ketchup
Oct. 5th, 2002 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaLotsa stuff going on. Been a busy week and it's shaping up to be a busy weekend too. Got all my code done for work only to find out that the release date was going to slip to next Monday, but that's okay. It gives me more time to check and make sure everything is the way I want it. My boss is happy with my work, though I feel like I'm a little behind schedule of where I'd really like to be. I had planned to go in and work last weekend but the computers were down so I wasn't able to.
On the school front, things have turned a little frustrating. I thought we were going to do our first project individually but instead, he wants us to do it in groups of five. Worse than that, arbitrary groups of five. My group contains three people who don't care about the assignment at all, me, and a managerial-type who doesn't want to do anything inventive, just get the project done. Blah. :( Ohwell. I get to do the others with my own cast and crew and this is only a one-day assignment. I guess I'll live.
Oil painting has been a little less humbling. It's a mix of first through third year students and as our paintings have progressed, I can see that I'm actually pretty high in the class. Though the instructor frustrated me a little because he mentioned that if you only do the class work, you only get a C. To get a better grade, you have to do bigger and more work. I dunno. I don't believe quantity is quality. I think I may do a piece about that later in the semester if I can figure out how to transport it. *sigh* Also, I still feel like I'm not getting a lot of instruction on how to do things. On the whole though. This class is very relaxing and calming. Get to class, listen to classical music and just paint for several hours. So it's not all bad.
Animation is the definite YAY class! I love it! I'm learning tons and tons of stuff that I can put to instant use. I can already see big improvements in my work, and I'm at the very top of the class. ... There's that competitive ego thing again... It sorta bothers me that I think this way. It seems kinda juvenille, I guess. At the same time though, aren't I supposed to push myself to be the best I can? So confusing.
Anyhow. Just to prove there's more to my life than work and school, I can report I spent three hours at the Dentist on Thursday! :/ I had a root canal a few weeks ago 'n' the tooth still hadn't heeled. It was wobbly and I thought it was gonna fall out and it was still badly infected. It turned out though that it was just that the crown was bad and had been bad for a long time and was probably the reason I ended up getting a root canal. So my dentist cut it off and put a temporary on 'n' stuck the bitter-tasting anti-biotic strips in my gums. So now instead of yucky infected taste, I've got yucky antibiotic taste and I look like I've got food stuck in my teeth. :( But they're supposed to dissolve over the next few days 'n' I have another visit next friday to get a fitting for a new permanent crown 'n' hopefully that'll fix everything and I won't have any more trouble. Total cost on this adventure is going to be around $2500. (Xrays, more xrays, root canal,
more x-rays, antibiotics, consultation, second opinion, and new crown)
You know... The root canal didn't hurt a bit and I'd wondered what people ment when they said, 'About as much fun as having a root canal'... Now I know.
And finally, on the lighter side, my SO bought me a video game for the PlayStation 2! It's called, 'Okage: Shadow King' and it's really really really really really cute! I can't believe it was only twenty dollars! It's like a light and goofy version of Final Fantasy 7 with a good dose of Tim Burton style added to it! :) Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm so set on being the best in class or I'd be off playing it right now. Anyhow. I should get back to work! Bye!!!! :)
On the school front, things have turned a little frustrating. I thought we were going to do our first project individually but instead, he wants us to do it in groups of five. Worse than that, arbitrary groups of five. My group contains three people who don't care about the assignment at all, me, and a managerial-type who doesn't want to do anything inventive, just get the project done. Blah. :( Ohwell. I get to do the others with my own cast and crew and this is only a one-day assignment. I guess I'll live.
Oil painting has been a little less humbling. It's a mix of first through third year students and as our paintings have progressed, I can see that I'm actually pretty high in the class. Though the instructor frustrated me a little because he mentioned that if you only do the class work, you only get a C. To get a better grade, you have to do bigger and more work. I dunno. I don't believe quantity is quality. I think I may do a piece about that later in the semester if I can figure out how to transport it. *sigh* Also, I still feel like I'm not getting a lot of instruction on how to do things. On the whole though. This class is very relaxing and calming. Get to class, listen to classical music and just paint for several hours. So it's not all bad.
Animation is the definite YAY class! I love it! I'm learning tons and tons of stuff that I can put to instant use. I can already see big improvements in my work, and I'm at the very top of the class. ... There's that competitive ego thing again... It sorta bothers me that I think this way. It seems kinda juvenille, I guess. At the same time though, aren't I supposed to push myself to be the best I can? So confusing.
Anyhow. Just to prove there's more to my life than work and school, I can report I spent three hours at the Dentist on Thursday! :/ I had a root canal a few weeks ago 'n' the tooth still hadn't heeled. It was wobbly and I thought it was gonna fall out and it was still badly infected. It turned out though that it was just that the crown was bad and had been bad for a long time and was probably the reason I ended up getting a root canal. So my dentist cut it off and put a temporary on 'n' stuck the bitter-tasting anti-biotic strips in my gums. So now instead of yucky infected taste, I've got yucky antibiotic taste and I look like I've got food stuck in my teeth. :( But they're supposed to dissolve over the next few days 'n' I have another visit next friday to get a fitting for a new permanent crown 'n' hopefully that'll fix everything and I won't have any more trouble. Total cost on this adventure is going to be around $2500. (Xrays, more xrays, root canal,
more x-rays, antibiotics, consultation, second opinion, and new crown)
You know... The root canal didn't hurt a bit and I'd wondered what people ment when they said, 'About as much fun as having a root canal'... Now I know.
And finally, on the lighter side, my SO bought me a video game for the PlayStation 2! It's called, 'Okage: Shadow King' and it's really really really really really cute! I can't believe it was only twenty dollars! It's like a light and goofy version of Final Fantasy 7 with a good dose of Tim Burton style added to it! :) Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm so set on being the best in class or I'd be off playing it right now. Anyhow. I should get back to work! Bye!!!! :)
