So the past few weeks have been pretty rough. It’ll all be over, soon, hopefully. Today was our last project portfolio class for the term, so that’s something off my back. Tomorrow will be our last career prep class, so that’s pretty exciting. Our projects are due tomorrow, but … ah, six hours of career prep. That’s crazy long! Today we had compositing, our cg spaceship on live footage was supposed to be due… but it got pushed back cos no one had it done. Haha. What else is due soon? Oh. XSI! Bah… I have a lot of work to do. All my friends are starting to get off school for summer… or they’re coming back for summer and I still can’t say no to coffee nights, or whatnot.
Crappy for me, but I couldn’t say NO when my friend already bought me a ticket for a charity banquet on Sunday. I seriously needed that Sunday to do all of my work. I am getting my ass dragged to that banquet, I don’t even want to go that badly. I wouldn’t mind… going as much if I didn’t have a lot of work to do. Yes. School comes first? I know why I can’t say no, it’s because I can’t stand missing out. I don’t like missing out on anything!
I just need to stick it through for the next few weeks, then hopefully the workload will start to lessen. I have my hopes up. Oh. Shoot. My relatives are all starting to come and stay over for a while. Right now, my room is the only place in the house I can stay in without any distractions (actually, there’s quite a few … but I’m resisting). Usually, I have the office all to myself too… bah. So sad, so sad!
I’ve finally settled with a demo reel idea. It’s not the best, but I think I’m going to have to stick with it, just because I have a little less than 6 months to work on my demo reel. If you’ve known me for a long time, you’re probably going to say that it’s very predictable that I’d do a beach themed demo reel. I just love beaches. I love painting beaches? I have one painting, in my room right now actually that I’m looking at… and wow. It needs so much work. I don’t even remember what my original ideas were for it, but Im definitely going to have to add more onto it. Sadly, it’s incomplete but framed. It was supposed to go in an art gallery for my school art show, … but I never finished. They still framed it though. … which is nice? I guess? I visited my old high school last week, my art teacher wants to see what I’ve done in 3D… I just laughed when she asked me to show my work to her. HA-HA.
Wow. So we’re a little more than half way through the year. That’s kind of scary because I really need to start working on my demo reel. Industry night was last week. It was pretty cool. Everyone did a kick ass job, I think. I’ll miss bugging some of the grads, especially when I’m bored. Haha.
Hmm…our XSI assignment is due on Thursday. I went to school today and yesterday to work on it, but …haha… I barely got anything done. Horrible. I’ll get it done, I swear. Our character model sheet is due on Thursday too, actually I have been working on that. … but agh I have to get my proportions right. What else, what else is due soon? Oh! Our project for career prep is due soon, so I got to start on that too. Bah. Lots of work to do!
I’ve been meaning to get my sketchbook from high school since September (everything I’ve done is in there!) I never really got around to that. Hopefully, it’s still there when I go visit on Friday. I doubt it though. I want to start painting again, but I don’t have the time. I should make time for it, because I have so many unfinished paintings from high school! Yeah, I’m such a slow painter… sometimes I can be a perfectionist? I remember one time I painted one part of my painting like at least five times because I either ran out of the colour (and couldn’t get the right shade again) or I didn’t like the colour. Yeah, my friend was annoyed at me for that. Pft, not like it was her painting anyway, right? I guess she got sick of watching me paint the same thing over and over again. Sad to say, but I threw away some of my old paintings from high school. Sigh. I regret doing that. I wasn’t thinking back then. I remember even using one painting, that I worked my ass off for by the way, as an umbrella (I was really pissed because I didn’t realize what I was doing… I was pretty sleep deprived at the time so I had no clue as to what I was doing). Yeah, I was really pissed off at myself for that.
I finally got a wacom tablet and pen. It’s actually fun. I’m starting to get hooked onto it.
Anyway, once again, I went to the mall almost every day last week. I was so stressed out. So… retail therapy?I need to find a better way to handle stress! My head was all over the place at work, on Saturday, my coworker and customers (the regulars) said straight up that I was a mess. Haha, losing my composure? Don’t I always? Sometimes stress affects my mood, it did, but I think … I’m not going to let the workload get to me. I’m just gonna go with whatever I have.
