My first earthquake
Oh my god, it’s almost over!! Two more weeks and we will be free…this entire semester has been circle after descending circle of Hell, although I’ve learned a lot, and I think that my art at least has improved a bit. I also know how to use Photoshop now ^_^
Summer is going to be amazing, as I will finally have time to sit down and do the things I didn’t have time to do during the semester. There’s still a lot I don’t know about various graphics and modeling programs that I need to learn, and I still have twenty or so pages of my sketchbook to fill before I can get myself a new one. I’ve realized now that the field I’m going into is extremely competitive. I like to think of myself as a good artist, but there are thousands of people much better than I am…so I need to practice -_-;
And reading! I can’t remember the last time I read a book for fun. My eyes are about to melt from staring at a computer screen fifteen hours a day…I have such a huge backlog of books I want to finish. George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series’ first book “A Game of Thrones,” especially, has been sitting on my desk for the past three months, completely untouched. It’s terrible to let such a great series go unread! Also, as depressing as they are, I really need to finish Sartre’s collected essays. His essays on Nothingness make me want to cry though…Finally, I’m almost done with the Ender’s Game “Shadows” series (Im on Shadow of the Giant), so I really want to finish that as well.
Also, I’ve got a full time job with my 245 Professor, working for his cell phone game company Morvid. I’ll be basically doing what I’m doing now on my current projects with Morvid, so I’ll get to do sprite art as well as get some experience in the game industry. Yeah yeah, I know, it’s a fucking cell phone game, but it’s a game nonetheless. It’s also between 30k and 60k a pop for a successful project, so it’s good motivation to do good work…maybe he’ll be kind enough to do some profit share..? It’s going to be a fun summer ^_^
On an somewhat unrelated note, we had an Earthquake here yesterday morning around 5:30…I believe the papers said it was around a 5.4 magnitude quake. What’s more amazing than that is that I was actually awake for it, scrunched up in our computer lab working on a CGT project, when the low 30 second rumble swept through our area. Everyone in the room was slap happy from pulling the same all-nighter I had just pulled, so our first reaction was to glare at the person sitting across from ourselves and tell them to stop shaking the &*#$ table.
And that was my first earthquake.
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