Muh Boddie

It doesn't hurt to swallow now, and my earholes oop nvm there they go, guess they do hurt still. But I can open my eyes now, so that's good.

So I was in the bathroom and looking at myself, naaaked, and I am one smoking hot specimen of human being, and I'm all, even if I could, I wouldn't change anything about this body. (Sometimes I think I'm a but pudgy but I really pull that pudge off if there's not any clothes over it.) And then I'm all, if I could. Then I'm all, well maybe I'd get a haircut, but then I'm all, wait haha that's, something I can do. 

But if there were anything in my life I could change, would I?

And then I'm all, yeah I'd have more money.

It's just, every time I see someone less fortunate than I, I can't just, not support them. And that's everyone (see the, how hot I am, thing above, etc.) And so I never have money, like, there's this kickstarter, which unfortunately went through. How am I eat, kind of thing.

Several mental hurdles later, though, maybe I can make MONEY, by ALSO blessing people, not with money but with my gifts??? It IS obvious, and it IS something I already knew, but it's one of those things you have to figure out for yourself.

Hellth

So my physical health is... getting better. I must have run into a cat or dog or just like a something somehow, because my eyes are just all, doing the allergy thing. Still don't hurt as much as my throat when I swallow, though that's gone down a lot. I've got this cough as well. And mucus. And still might be running a slight temperature. Whatever it was that I must have caught down in New Mexico, and oh yeah my ears deep down in 'em hurt a bit too, especially when I yawn, which I'm doing right now because it's, it'd be almost 2:00 if it weren't daylight savings, or, no, wait... I have become sitcom levels of stupid in terms of math ever since not needing such classes anymore, but spring forward should mean it would be, still last night, alright... whatever bug anyway, I think I may be able to not need a sick day from class tomorrow. Today. I still might want one though.

Mental health mostly. I spent the longest time today overcoming my anxiety by completely ignoring my homework/responsibilities, and hey what do you mean that doesn't actually overcome my anxiety, it just makes it worse? Haha, ha, yes. Yes.

Urgh, I am coughing my lungs out here. Maybe I WILL need a, physical health, day off tomorrow...

What Time is It I Don't Even

As long as I'm writing this down anyway WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST I might as well record that I should get one of those, a recorder, not a publishing/ hippopotamus magnate, I mean; by which recorder I mean a voice recorder (preferably with, like, ALL the storage space,) I can ramble all the good ideas I come up with. Does this typeface have serifed 
I's? It does, where have I seen that recently...

'Cos like my ideas are jerks, only comin' at me as I try an' sleep. Sometimes I get up to write them down (and thus paradoxically free them??) but gurgle Hitler Hitler... (the autocrat-type function sufficiently amuses me some times, such as with the word "autocrat" itself (anarchist, that time.))

Hurgle gurgle gurgle, I just want to sleep.

Is there a way to swap go-to-bed feels with wake-up-now feels? I should still get a recorder.

Also I seems to have losted my camera's mike's windguard fuzzy on the trip somewhere... You know what else is a good idea JEFF GOLDBLUM, if I'd have stickered my name on it somehow.

Dard-E Fewer Things

I didn't fall asleep last night so much as, went unconscious four or five times, for a few minutes at a time. Hopefully tonight the rest will be better. (Well, that means any rest at all, but you know what I mean.) It still hurts to swallow, and my head still feels like spaghetti squash trying to force its way through a sieve, and my ears hurt from the shifts in altitude from traveling around all day, but other than that I'm not in too much agony. And I should be getting plenty of rest tonigh.....

Daaayligghht saaavvinngs!!

My Everything Hurts... And I Mean ALL of It

I'm even more sore and tired now than I was last night, possibly. But I'm remembering to blog today. Remembered last night too, but napped woke up at 2:05, five minutes too late to get it in last night in the time zone... or, an hour five minutes?? Too tired right now to really consider which is right. Ugh. And we're waking up tomorrow morning way earlier than we did today...

A Tale of Two Cities in Car Trip Form

The trip up (down!) was long and well it actually didn't feel that long with all my leg room, but it was even though it was filled with naps it was still tiring. All in all a quite contradictory day.

And, As Graduation Approaches, Further Angst Develops

UVWXYZ. Six more classes and if I pass I'm done. We drew S today (still the best part of class,) and T is on Thursday which I'm missing. I do not enjoy graphic design classes very much. Especially not at this stage, advanced class... why is that? Am I uncool with being outside of my comfort zone? Don't think that's it; the whole flibby flobbing world is outside of my comfort zone, so I'm, well not that distinctly UNcomfortable there, and it's all whatevs. Is it being bad at graphic design, highlighted further by this Senior-level class where everyone else is practically professional level and I'm, it'd be middling if I were a freshman? I think it's, everyone else isn't practically professional level, they are all (or most, or lots) professionals. The fact that I'm about to possibly graduate, and the trip tomorrow (which is indeed going to give me 14 more hours to think about things) is just a step closer to that, and I don't even have any, anything, while everyone else totally has that, doesn't help.

My mission president compared me to himself, in our exit interview. I'm a late bloomer (the word he used was "developer,") slow developer but good developer. It's like my meticulous worldbuilding, slow plot outlining, on my stories; it'd be nice to develop fast sometimes.

Maybe late bloomer isn't the word for it. If I'm such a late bloomer, how was I top of my class in GATE? Am I some kind of failed child prodigy? Failing even, wry chuckle, at being a prodigy at anything.

Man, sometimes I want to go on a rad Calvin-style adventure across Lake Whatever and find John Green and get him to write me a happy ending.

I ate a burrito and got $30, though, so that's good.

I May Feel Old and Useless Compared with All These Youngsters Doing Amazing Things, But Soon I'll Have Done, Just, Anything

Should be going to sleep, but man I've been just attacked by the muse today; I'm making these huge chunks of progress in a story I'm writing. A script really-- I've been working on this trilogy since, gosh, well it was after graduating high school for sure, so maybe, 2011ish, 2012ish? This script is the only original work of the trilogy, sort of canon-welding a short story of mine with a short story of a friend's (from before graduating high school) and, gosh this must sound terribly boring, since I have to keep a lot of the details under wraps... but this is the first time I think I've ever mentioned this project to you, actually, though it does take place in the same continuity as a different project I have mentioned.

The only thing that could be boring about this really, from personal experience reacting to other people making such announcements, is if it seems like nothing's going to come of any of this. Knowing my history of project completions, it does seem that way; my creative process tends to involve massive massive amounts of stewing.

But like I said, the creativity bug has bitten. Pieces are beginning to fall into place in a big way. It's happened before, and nothing's really completed over it, but... this is a major step toward that, right now.

As Opposed to Pretzel Beast

Rush, on his Facebook page (he's the producer on Tony Boi not sure if I've mentioned him ever) talking about the success of the film's premiere and showcasing a bunch of photos, all of which were taken by me. He credited me and everything, but the kicker/killer is... well, the file I sent was a link to a .zip saved to my twisted.in.pretzels account's Google Drive, and so he subtitled me (put parenthetically after my name, I mean,) "Pretzel Man."

Alright then.

We HAD been texting earlier, and I'd told him he could credit me, just, however...

There was an injoke on set of the film, which made it into the final thing somehow, that I was on deviantArt and my handle was, darkanimelover123, something like that.

We Are Wakanda

Not the perfect YouTube content, but it's the closest I've ever come to. I'm getting there; I am so close. Defining perfection as, some content uniquely me, coming into my own style, doing something nobody else can do, as laid down in the first PPR episode.







It's interesting how much that means exposing vulnerabilities, but I guess that makes perfect sense. I wouldn't call this content vibranium-level, but it's something near to it.

March 2nd Stuff: Tony Boi Premiere, etc

And the video I tried to take today was in the dark, so you can't see anything. Sigh. Actually though I got really got footage and photographs of the premiere itself, just not any of my blogging about it.

So there was a meeting this morning about the travel study trip... I really don't want to talk about it, not that anything bad or embarrassing happened, but that I already did talk about it, attempting to vlog. So I'll tell you about eating fish and chips, and walking home half dead.

Lunch time. Saving my money up for the trip (if all goes well plasma-wise I should have something like $62 for souvenirs) I don't want to spend money on food-- but I still need to eat. I still have had that gift card for Frontier Pies, which I may or may not have told you about. I'd thought I'd had $15 in it, was hoping for $25, but in reality it was $10. A $7.99 special, plus tax and with 18% tip, comes out to $9.99 exactly. Only, tip from gift card, kind of a funny situation since the money isn't real... so what I could do, is just give them the gift card entirely, take a penny from the take-a-penny. And my waitress would own my gift card.

And more happened today but I'm done talking about it.

March 1st Stuff: Porter's Sale Day 1, etc

So I thought maybe (so much going on this month, and also it being one year this month, on the 30th, since I uploaded my first YouTube video) I'd have some kind of daily vlog going on this month... The content for today turned out either inane or out-of-focus, so, meh.

The Paypal did go through this morning, and then the school fee later. Everything the way it was ideal to. Still have all my tithing money plus some in my i-card balance (I used it to pay for prints today-- color prints!!) and my plasma debit card is woefully low- all I spent it on at Porter's the sale this morning was a Webkinz skunk plushie.

But oh yes I will be back...

Money Hoops

I'm sitting here rubbing the scar from some old acid wound on my leg, where I'd spilled printer's ink on my pants and decided to apply the ink remover directly to the pant leg without taking them off first. I've just completed transferring money to my bank account; it should go through in one business day, but the fact that these things take time wound up a friend of mine in this process. I'm $9.73 the poorer for the measures I had to take, still not entirely sure if it was worth it, but at least it's for the most part over and I can rest easy.

The process was a complicated one, full of mistakes and course correction, and also puzzles on the level of some puzzle-heavy computer games like Myst or Portal. My end goal was to pay both my tithing and my tuition fee, and though there are still one or two hurdles left to jump through (over?), I'm far enough through the process that I believe I'm in a position to tell you about it.

[Inhales deeply.]

So I've several years of tithes I haven't been paying, though still considering myself a full tithe payer in the interim; let's start with that. Goes on this wise, when my few thousand dollars of Pell grant money first came in, I decided to pay tithing on it, before I realized that since the money would be going directly toward tuition it was never really mine in the first place and that maybe I shouldn't have paid that 10% on it. So, having it all retroactively (proactively??) paid, I went without paying tithing for a bit. Too long, turns out. 

After making an exhaustive spreadsheet of all the money that had passed through my hands for a period of one or two years, and calculating the tithing I'd paid throughout my schooling, I could pinpoint exactly when my prior tithing extension ceased, and what money I had to tithe from then out.

It actually took a while to get to the point where I could pay tithing, though, living from, well not quite hand-to-mouth, but... Okay, this is actually important for later on, but remember that basically my sole income stream is through blood plasma donation, which money gets put into its own separate account. In order to make money on plasma, I have to go through something of a health examination before each donation, which requires my blood protein levels to be a certain minimum. So I have to spend money on, not just any groceries, but specifically groceries that have protein in them, so that I can eat regularly and have a high protein level in my blood. It makes saving up money slightly slower.

Another thing that slows down the savings process is how much money I don't save; I mean I don't go around on shopping sprees or anything (though maybe I could after this, unfortunately a tad too late) but I do enjoy supporting causes on Patreon and Kickstarter. (Speaking of, may I interest you in some Elementis? A third of the way funded, and one month to go...!)

I actually did have enough money two months ago, but that was December which means I had to go Christmas shopping so I actually did go on a shopping spree or something...

But finally this month I managed to recoup everything enough, so that my plasma money finally surpassed my due tithing.

And so here comes the tuition story...

Heck I'm gonna go take a break for a bit and get back to writing this for ya; I've got an opera on DVD I've had paused, plus I'm feeling kind of peckish....

During the opening reception of a new art exhibit at the Spori Building, I got a chance to talk to Kody and tell him I wanted to speak with him; he gave me his office hours (1:00-3:00.) This would have been Thursday. I woke up at 1:00 pm on Friday, and spaced the fact that he would have been in his office starting then; Saturday nobody's in their office, nor Sunday, and Monday was Presidents' Day. So it wasn't until Tuesday that I could talk to him, and he would tell me that the Travel Study in the Arts program had yet to do their field trip this semester. 

I could talk to Carla on Wednesday art night, one week ago, and there she said there was still a spot open on her trip at least. She told me to meet her Friday, during her office hours (11:00-2:00,) only she turned out not to be there, with a meeting going on unexpectedly long it turned out. After a few hours of sitting around, going out and checking back in, I decided to do the thing a normal person would have done in the first place, and left a sticky note with my cell number on it. She texted me Monday morning to talk to Kathy at the art office, to remove the late registration hold (Kody, Carla and Kathy; Orson Scott Card would be displeased with all these similar-sounding names, but at least their last names all sound different, and I've just got this weird affect where I refer to professors by their first names if I consider them friends.)

Kathy removed the hold; I went home to register for the trip.

The course details page says that the class is full already, and with my joining there are now -1 out of 8 seats available. Hope that the humans are right and the computers are in error on this one, because otherwise I did all this money stuff for nothing.

The course page says it costs $500 to go on the trip; I'd thought it was at $250 for Santa Fe but I guess that price must be for the Salt Lake trip instead? (There are, of course, varying prices depending on how expensive the trip might be.)

I had $250 to cover it easy, all part of my Pell grant money this semester (taking fewer than 14 credits, and having a GPA a hair lower than the B average required, I'd thought that I wouldn't get a grant this semester, but I guess I was wrong.) (Of course, the grant this semester was, like, a quarter of what I'd usually get, so it might have something to do with that.) $500 was a bit more of a stretch, but luckily near the end of every month my parents send money to cover rent. $300+$300=$600, no problem.

Only, the cost when I looked on the finances page wasn't $500. It was $667.

Not sure what's up with that, but I have a possible explanation: the fee name listed on the website was "tuition," and tuition is always due by the beginning of the semester, with late fees following. Since I only signed up for this halfway through the semester, I've got half a semester's worth of late fees. Late fees being only 6%, though, to my knowledge, that doesn't cover everything. Maybe it covers lunch, though, IDK.

I hope it covers lunch though actually, because after all this I'm down to, not enough to go on that spree I mentioned above.

Here's how I decided to pay for everything, and here's where it gets puzzly. 

First, I asked my mom to cover the rest of the balance; let's estimate that I now had $700 in the bank, and further estimate $350 on my plasma-only debit card.

In order to pay tithing online, you need to connect your bank account; I have my bank account already connected to my school account; my plasma card, with the tithing money on it, is just a debit card with no real bank attached, just the account, that only the donation people are allowed to load, but it is attached to my PayPal so I can pay for things online that way (neither the school payment nor the tithing payment systems accept PayPal though.)

You can pay for things on your school account with a card, but there's a 2.75% service fee. Didn't want to have to pay that. And payments due on school fees are due the end of the month, whenever they show up, or else you're hit with the above-mentioned late fees. 

With $350~ on my plasma money card to cover tithing, but tithing only being able to be covered by a bank account (even if not paying online, it'd be through check) I paid for half of the Travel Studies using my bank, figuring I could then use the other half of the bank balance to cover tithing, and use all my plasma money to cover the rest of the travel studies trip. This was yesterday; 10:55 last night. How I'd actually go about using my plasma debit card to pay for the rest, I put off till today.

One thing I did know though for sure, and which I also did yesterday, was that I would have to freeze my Patreon support for March, because I'd be just barely covering the rest as it was.

That was yesterday. Today, since bank balance transactions like that don't show up for 24 hours, my bank account still appears to have all the money in it, but it'll drop by half soon, and tomorrow by more than half. Later rather than sooner I hope.

(Sidequest time though; before paying, I went to go get a burrito from Ramires', "best Mexican food downtown," half past 9:00 last night; thinking and puzzling over how I'd pay for everything and being extremely hungry and deciding to think it out over a Carne Asada and Fries burrito. But my plasma card was in my wallet and my wallet was left at home. I had to pay with my bank card, and thus this morning had to transfer over a little bit of money from my savings to my checking to bring it all back to snuff to cover both halves of the equation.)

This morning, I set out trying to find how to get money from my debit card to my i-card, so that I could pay the school balance via my i-account. (i-Cards are the school's identity cards, used for checking out books and things, which you can also load with money for your school account. You need money on your i-card to print things out, for example, which fact has been detrimental to my ability to do homework.) Setting out to the library to see if I'd be able to use plastic to load my student account... turns out you can't, as the cashier's desk only accepts checks and cash. They told me to do it online. As long as I was at the library, though, I used that opportunity to check out a couple of operas on DVD, as I've made reference to above. (Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen, and Britten's Peter Grimes. If you must know.)

(Another sidequest; I'd been meaning to check both of them out for a while but I could never locate the Janacek one; the website always said it was checked in but it was never on the shelf where it should have been. The way DVD checkouts work here is, two day checkout, and what's on the shelf is just the empty case; you bring the case up to the desk and they go back to this shelf thing, like that of the archives at the Family History Library, all these shelves squished together to save space and you have to roll them apart to access anything, only having access to the one shelf at a time that isn't rolled together with the other shelves. Turns out that the DVD was there, case and all, but in a weird spot, educational use only section or something.)

I'd figured that there was an office somewhere, like the financial aid center or something, where you'd be able to load plastic directly onto your i-Card, but if the cashier desk referred me to the website instead, that must have been it.

(Another sidequest, this one failed: as long as I was on campus, I hit the lost and found center to see if anybody had finally located this hat I lost this one time last semester, which I may have told you about because it had been such a merry chase. Nobody had, still; it's probably never going to show up.)

Maybe I'd be able to pay for the tuition thing by loading my i-card? But no, loading my i-card online, just to pay for the tuition thing, would be redundant, since I'd be paying for the tuition thing online anyway, and there'd still be that 2.75% fee.

I just covered the rest of it. And then, two seconds after it was too late, I realized my mistake.

There's a bar where you can type in the amount you want to pay for tuition; there's a bar where you can type in the amount you want to put on your i-card, there are bars for numerous numerous things. It's how I paid yesterday for only half of what was due.

Only this morning, with the full amount of money left written in the bar for fees, I'd forgotten to delete the amount from the bar where I'd been considering loading my i-card. I paid $325 more than necessary-- and that was $325 more than I had. There was still a 24-hour period before that showed up though, so I had to act fast. And at least my hand had been forced, so I could get it over with quicker.

You can't pay money to yourself on Paypal... but you can pay money to others and have them pay you back. I sent $325 to Ryan over Paypal, to get him to send it back to my account, from whence I'd be able to transfer it to my bank account. PayPal's service fee for non-bank-attached cards is a bit steeper than the school's, at 3%, so maybe I should have gone with the first option, but whatever. Once he was awake from his nap, and before he went to his class, I got him to transfer me the funds, which (being directly from his Paypal balance, did not cost him a fee) and I could send that from my Paypal balance to my bank balance (also fee-less.)

The way to claim the money was through a link in this text they sent me, which link I followed an hour after I got the text, which was itself sent after Ryan paid me back, an hour after I paid him. Which was after I screwed up and had to act fast. So we're getting out of this okay under the following condition: if the Paypal goes through to my bank BEFORE the school fee goes through to my bank. We'll find out how exactly within that 24 hour period the school's transfers go through, 10:55ish tonight.

Can't say it's not exciting.

Actually you totally could say that.

And once that dust has settled anyway, maybe I'll be able to get a refund on my student balance... into my bank account hopefully of course... and THEN finally be able to pay my tithing, coming on all these years.

Hold on... Yes, that's it; I went under my finances tab and that confirmed my suspicions. The course fee is indeed only $500, but the course still counts as a course, 1 credit hour per week, and that means $167 of tuition for that credit hour, as per the tuition rate. No late fees involved after all.

Which means lunch isn't covered. I mean, maybe it is, I don't know. But now is I feel a really good time to tell you about the shopping spree I've mentioned.

Porter's is closing down. Tomorrow. They've been doing good business and everything, but the owners (Chuck and Linda Porter) have decided to up and retire, which means that EVERYTHING MUST GO. Crazy steep discounts on all these art supplies. It's gonna be a frenzy. Doors open at 9:00 am tomorrow, and close... once the bones have been picked clean, I guess.

That place is/was already paradise, the people there MY people, like at Hobby Lobby or Office Max, but just a couple of blocks down from my door. And everything so much off, it'd be like, double paradise, by the dashboard light and with an extra-rich fudge ripple. Only... I don't have money, anymore. Alright, like, $11.73, on the plasma card, and however few much left in my savings account. $11.79. But that's really not enough to go off of, in such a momentous shopping spree, is it.

Art night's in an hour; I'll see if I can collect some money for the cause, from like-minded individuals.

Hits and Tallies and Futures and All

Blogger's analytics shows that there have so far been 8 different hits on yesterday's post. That post alone, not counting hits to the blog in general (wherein last night's post may have been read.)

And amidst all that, YouTube's analytics shows, one view, of my latest video. Eh, I enjoyed putting it together at least.

Still it raises the question, if none of these hits are genuine (or if the play button is really that difficult to press on the embedded video) where are the hits coming from?

The biggest month hits-wise for this blog was one year ago, which had almost 20,000 hits. This marks the center of a jagged peak, a Himalaya rising above Catskills. Pretty sure most of the hits from that era were robots from France and Russia for some reason; the hit patterns are too even to come from human activity. But that epoch's passed.

Nowadays, Cambodian spam is flooding this blog's comments section. Not even I have enough time to go through that stuff; I now just mark it as spam without reading it (plus I don't speak Cambodian.)

Is all this fake activity a sign that I'm making it? Does the hitrate inspire a higher position in Google's algorithm should anyone search out anything I'd happened to write about?

I don't think they'd care if they did find this blog. Same reason I'm not getting hits on any of my videos. I'm not really anybody, and especially not anybody worth paying attention to. Which is alright, I guess. People paying attention to you only means Cambodians spamming your comments section.

Studying a lot of YouTube, a lot of YouTubers seem to be achieving middling success with cookie cutter graphics and motion design. (The big fish can afford their own.) Maybe there'd be success there, but I don't want to cookie cut anything, even what kind of content I'm producing. I guess I'm not really looking for success (as nice as it would be to have more than one view on, I think it's my best video yet, at least in terms of production quality.) It's all just, another learning experience for me, so that I can be good at something later on.

But I'm (how old am I, I'd been going to say 27 but that's not right) and everyone else's life seems to have already begun by this age, and I seriously want to be good at something now, or at least be making money off of something.

But I think about the economy too much, and no matter the business, the bottom is always going to fall out. The whole entire system is a Ponzi scheme, if you've got far enough eyesight.

I mean that's not the only reason I don't have a job, but...

I mean I'm just too darn good at too many things, but employers are instead looking for someone who's overqualified in one specific area, and nothing so general. And you'd already have to have an in anyway, and...

Heck FamilySearch would probably be willing to hire me, wouldn't they? And getting paid this time? I WAS one of the best workers at waypointing there, in terms of speed and accuracy...

If I'm going to work for the church anyway though, there's still the filmmaking arm. Probably be a lot better for my future and idea of what I want to do, there, over LAIKA. I'm not sure the mobility at an animation studio, or at least not a stop-motion one; maybe I'd move my way up to head of fabrication or something, but that's not what I really want. Maybe it is for the best that Kody's contact (and thus my LAIKA in) no longer works there. The question still stands regarding his contact at the church's filmmaking branch, whether whoever THAT is still works there.

I've got kind of an audacious idea, anyway, as long as I AM still, uh, "learning experience," ing. Maybe I'll explain it tomorrow. Maybe I'll actually go through with it at all. We'll see.

...Some Memoir... (PretzelsVlog no 12)

So I've got some announcements, but I explain them all in my vlog anyway. So yeah.

I think I'm particularly handsome in this one; WHY AREN'T I VIRAL??

Essence of Thinking

I had like three paragraphs all written out (not that they were very long ones or anything) but I deleted all that anyway; they didn't really reflect what I truly spent time thinking about today. Which was, too many things to capture here, honestly. I'm juggling between a few Google Docs right now, writing what I really want to in those; they're scripts mostly. It's good to make headway.

But being a filmmaker isn't the only thing I want to do, is what all the topics of thought today etherize down to (etherize=distill into ether, right?)

About This Dropbox

Took a nap at like 4:00 this afternoon-- only waking up now, in time to write this. Someone added 31 files to the shared mission dropbox at just before 7:00 this afternoon, and I'm only finding out about it 6 hours later, with my desktop dropbox informing me of the synched updates

This mission dropbox is not mission related.

Wope, hold on there, now files are getting deleted.

And then added again.

At least it's telling me who's adding. Elder McAfee... Jerich.

I'm sure I must have told someone about Jerich McAfee. And his dad?

If I haven't though, I'm afraid I'm out of time. Gotta publish now, sorry!

Megasode Escalations

So the episode is compiling right now.

Oh! The premiere for Tony Boi is in one week. That's something I learned yesterday.

I am eating this pizza with no cottage cheese. Feels weird. I think we do have some chili left...

Alright, fine. The moment that's been hanging over everyone's heads: I went to Carla's office between 11 and 2 like she said, but she wasn't there. Waited around for a bit (would have completed the episode actually on Friday had I not had to do that) and finally just left a sticky note on her door? I don't think anyone has office hours Saturday, but I'll check back nonetheless.

Minisode Escaplations

So I wrote out a pretty decent script for today's episode but computer crashes and other troubles caused me to just, throw that out till next time, and go off-the-cuff instead. And further computer troubles caused me to just, ignore that stuff as well and just put up the first part, the stuff of my script that I had gotten filmed... which is just me complaining about homework preventing me from really even wanting to do an episode today because I was too busy doing that instead. Sounds about right.

Looking through my extemporaneous monologue it all seems to suffer from that weird thing where the audio and the visual are unsynchronized. But only when I open in Premiere? Actually hold on I haven't tried it in AfterEffects yet, maybe it does it there too. It doesn't do it in the Windows Media Player, is my point. It might have something to do with filetypes or something, IDK.

Glory to Hanuman!

Phew. So there may be exactly one spot open on the Santa Fe trip, talking with Sister Jimison at art night tonight. One spot open, for a male. I am one person, and also that yes, and crap man it's 1:00 already, just passed midnight Pacific time, this post is in late (I'm a bit busy with a couple of things at the moment, a lot due tomorrow (today), and, like, juggling. And poorly apparently.)

I said "may." Will that position be open? Will I make it on the trip this semester and thus be able to graduate this spring? What would I even do graduated? The answer to all questions minus the latter will be on Friday, which (it being past midnight) is tomorrow.

Piffle.

So huh yeah. Went to go see Black Panther. It's, good. I'd already spoiled all the twists for myself; they say that in some cases minor spoilers may aid in your enjoyment of a piece of literature. Not the case here I guess. I'd probably enjoy it more if I didn't have that project due in, 15 hours, hanging over my head. What am I writing this for, I could be doing that project RIGHT NOW.