sothacid left about ten minutes ago for his work-study interview. After that comes his first day of classes (today it's Organic Chemistry, German, then the Organic Chemistry lab). I packed him most of a lunch--I wasn't sure about the entree while assembling it, which we decided this morning would be creamed corn with cubed, fried Spam--and wrote DO NOT ( Read more... )

Today was the commencement ceremony for my school. Tomorrow at 7 AM I leave to visit sothacid. In less than two weeks we'll be married. After that there's my sister's wedding. After that we get to figure out what to do re: this "money and housing" deal. Not stressing.

Things Gimpy cannot do without assistance:

• Open bags of shredded cheese
  
• Wrestle with the pocket door to the kitchen
  
• Rearrange her portfolio without wincing
  
• Play console games (ouch)

Things Gimpy can do on her own:

• Dress herself
  
• Set up a mock interview (surprisingly easy, only took me two calls)
  
• Fix her resume's cover letter
  
• Take practice quizzes ( Read more... )

Had a great visit. Got a lot of wedding planning done. Didn't get killed by the pogonip or the levee break. Made it home safely on the 13th. Currently gearing up for class, which will probably involve putting on pants at some point; I really lucked out this semester, since I only have two art courses to focus on and that hateful online course I ( Read more... )

If I have to look at Illustrator for five more minutes I think my head is going to explode. But I'd rather deal with headsplodey, playing musical thumb drives, and endless eons with the pen tool than getting a crappy grade on a major project. So I'll manage ( Read more... )

I wish more people were this introspective. I've always found Xian to have her head screwed on reasonably straight as these things go, and watching an already competent (if flawed in some ways) artist seek to expand their repertoire fills my heart with gladness. Note that it's an FA journal link, for those of you who're uncomfortable checking ( Read more... )

After much ado and playing of e-mail tag, my Fall '07 semester is finally set, and I can start making eyes at the Intent to Graduate requirements for Spring '08. Twelve hours plus retaking an online class I tanked due to my own inattentiveness, and all this while avoiding scheduling any horrible eight-hours-plus-transit-and-downtime days like I ( Read more... )

Subject: Imaging Technologies exam.
Time to complete: approximately six minutes, 45 seconds.
Grade: 90%.

Hell yeah.

Also, if you don't watch The Venture Brothers, you're really missing out. I'm missing out, too, but hey. That's what DVDs are for.

And now, inspired by nornagest, it's time to try my hand at drawing sentient plantlife again.

...but at least I'm almost done with my newsletter. All I have left is the mailing information, drawing and scanning in the logo and "photographs," and figuring out if I can get QuarkXP to play nice with the most recent version of Adobe Illustrator so my imported EPS files aren't mutated. Sure, I could've saved myself huge amounts of time with ( Read more... )