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Well, spring break is over and done with. If I had to choose words to describe it, I'd say that it was "uneventful, yet too short." Lack of stuff going on can probably be attributed to nobody I know outside of my family being in town. Well, maybe Thomas Maier, but I didn't see him.
Flight down was normal despite all the TVs in the airport going on about the tornadoes moving through and showing purple spots on the radar passing through the center of the perimeter. When I arrived though, weather was beautiful.
St. Patty's was a Stella over mongolian beef at Doc Cheys.
Didn't really do too much overall. When I first came down my attention was drawn by reading through the Hajime no Ippo manga, which makes boxing a lot cooler than it actually is, but was still a fun read. Later on my materialistic diversions shifted to a new copy of Professor Layton and finishing a replay of Phoenix Wright 3.
Around wednesday or thursday everything went topsy turvy as I discovered that Mirror Moon had at long, long, long, long last finished translating the Unlimited Blade Works route of Fate Stay/Night, causing me to drop everything I was doing and reinstall it on my laptop. I'd lost my save, so I had to replay the Fate route first, but in the end I didn't really mind. The more I look at it the more I like it.
Anyway, UBW was fun and at least mostly as good as the hype I'd heard. I would have liked to see more of the titular reality marble, but ah, well. The ending was really good, but in the end, playing through it just made me starving for translations of Heaven's Feel, the last route, and Hollow Ataraxia, the fanservice sequel. Fortunately, Mirror Moon's translators started the HF translation before the UBW installer was done, and it turns out that the Kagetsu Tohya group is working on Hollow Ataraxia. So now it is just a dull pain that will lead me to check both pages far too frequently for my own good. In the meantime I'll just have to try and content myself with doujins and the arranged version of the soundtrack to prevent myself from slipping into withdrawal. I need to read Fate/Zero, too, now that it's very close to being fully translated, but I'm waiting for a time that I can read it all in one or two sittings.
Oh, and I just yesterday found out that they're finally making a FS/N fighting game, called "Fate - Unlimited Codes." Huh. Who the hell names these things? Anyway, looks like it might be pretty good. Made by the guys who did the Bloody Roar and Naruto GC games? Almost certainly will be no Melty Blood, and the PS3 is the system it's most likely to land on (though it's graphics look PS2 quality, who knows), but it might be fun for a few hours.
tl;dr: Thomas is a huge dork.
Work is...work. Cleaned out old props from the storage closet that's getting converted to a second Avid suite. Dunno what's most suspect; the 15 pounds of canned goods with no labels that have been in there for god knows how many years, the jar containing about a dozen dead spiders of various sizes, or the large, still-in-its-packaging baby doll with the ad on the front that it "Cries Real Tears!". I'm not even going to question how they harvested such a liquid and filled a reservoir in the doll.
Other than that I turned change into dollars at the bank and researched the evolution of color-related adaptations in mammals. Which is rather boring since most of them don't see color very well and like to stick to the business-like attire of black, white, gray, and brown.
Feeling kinda bummed. Really, really wishing that spring break were just a little longer. I'm still having insomnia problems, getting out of bed for work feels physically painful, work is giving me headaches, and I have two essays due this week. Starting to wonder if I might go ahead and quit my internship at Optomen, I'm taking so many more hours than I need for the number of credits I'm taking it's not even funny. I think I reached the mark I needed weeks ago.
Also still not feeling any better whatsoever about what'll happen in a couple months after graduation. Talking to Dad a little bit at home, they've decided to help me get a place around the city and support me for a little while until I can get a job, since most of the film job sites only post openings a few weeks before their start date at best. That takes care of that question, at least, even though it officially means that I have to go after the New York housing market, and I still don't have much confidence in anyone actually desiring my help enough to want to pay me a living wage. This whole becoming independent thing basically feels like the end of the world.
Anyway, I should stop moping around about this on LJ (isn't moping and whining what this site is for, though?) and get back to one of my essays if I want to have any hope of not pulling two all nighters in a row.
Edit: GAAAAAAH I CANT THINK ANYMORE
Editx2: THOMAS HAET ESSY
Flight down was normal despite all the TVs in the airport going on about the tornadoes moving through and showing purple spots on the radar passing through the center of the perimeter. When I arrived though, weather was beautiful.
St. Patty's was a Stella over mongolian beef at Doc Cheys.
Didn't really do too much overall. When I first came down my attention was drawn by reading through the Hajime no Ippo manga, which makes boxing a lot cooler than it actually is, but was still a fun read. Later on my materialistic diversions shifted to a new copy of Professor Layton and finishing a replay of Phoenix Wright 3.
Around wednesday or thursday everything went topsy turvy as I discovered that Mirror Moon had at long, long, long, long last finished translating the Unlimited Blade Works route of Fate Stay/Night, causing me to drop everything I was doing and reinstall it on my laptop. I'd lost my save, so I had to replay the Fate route first, but in the end I didn't really mind. The more I look at it the more I like it.
Anyway, UBW was fun and at least mostly as good as the hype I'd heard. I would have liked to see more of the titular reality marble, but ah, well. The ending was really good, but in the end, playing through it just made me starving for translations of Heaven's Feel, the last route, and Hollow Ataraxia, the fanservice sequel. Fortunately, Mirror Moon's translators started the HF translation before the UBW installer was done, and it turns out that the Kagetsu Tohya group is working on Hollow Ataraxia. So now it is just a dull pain that will lead me to check both pages far too frequently for my own good. In the meantime I'll just have to try and content myself with doujins and the arranged version of the soundtrack to prevent myself from slipping into withdrawal. I need to read Fate/Zero, too, now that it's very close to being fully translated, but I'm waiting for a time that I can read it all in one or two sittings.
Oh, and I just yesterday found out that they're finally making a FS/N fighting game, called "Fate - Unlimited Codes." Huh. Who the hell names these things? Anyway, looks like it might be pretty good. Made by the guys who did the Bloody Roar and Naruto GC games? Almost certainly will be no Melty Blood, and the PS3 is the system it's most likely to land on (though it's graphics look PS2 quality, who knows), but it might be fun for a few hours.
tl;dr: Thomas is a huge dork.
Work is...work. Cleaned out old props from the storage closet that's getting converted to a second Avid suite. Dunno what's most suspect; the 15 pounds of canned goods with no labels that have been in there for god knows how many years, the jar containing about a dozen dead spiders of various sizes, or the large, still-in-its-packaging baby doll with the ad on the front that it "Cries Real Tears!". I'm not even going to question how they harvested such a liquid and filled a reservoir in the doll.
Other than that I turned change into dollars at the bank and researched the evolution of color-related adaptations in mammals. Which is rather boring since most of them don't see color very well and like to stick to the business-like attire of black, white, gray, and brown.
Feeling kinda bummed. Really, really wishing that spring break were just a little longer. I'm still having insomnia problems, getting out of bed for work feels physically painful, work is giving me headaches, and I have two essays due this week. Starting to wonder if I might go ahead and quit my internship at Optomen, I'm taking so many more hours than I need for the number of credits I'm taking it's not even funny. I think I reached the mark I needed weeks ago.
Also still not feeling any better whatsoever about what'll happen in a couple months after graduation. Talking to Dad a little bit at home, they've decided to help me get a place around the city and support me for a little while until I can get a job, since most of the film job sites only post openings a few weeks before their start date at best. That takes care of that question, at least, even though it officially means that I have to go after the New York housing market, and I still don't have much confidence in anyone actually desiring my help enough to want to pay me a living wage. This whole becoming independent thing basically feels like the end of the world.
Anyway, I should stop moping around about this on LJ (isn't moping and whining what this site is for, though?) and get back to one of my essays if I want to have any hope of not pulling two all nighters in a row.
Edit: GAAAAAAH I CANT THINK ANYMORE
Editx2: THOMAS HAET ESSY