March Week Four
It's been a fun, interesting, and busy week. Cubed managed to round up a good crowd of people--Bill, Sarah, Pat, Erin, Zach, Jess, himself, John, and I--to go see the new TMNT movie on Tuesday night. It was a good time even though we thought Tuesday was all day matinee day. I've always liked the Ninja Turtles since I watched the cartoon as a kid even though I've never been as avid a fan to get into the darker comic books. We were all a little skeptical about it--because of the computer animation, and that the live action sequels left something to be desired--but the movie was a good mix of cartoony goofiness and the darker stuff. A couple of people had told me about how the fight scene between Leonardo and Raphael was amazing, so when seeing it in the theater, I was disappointed when I thought the fight was over--and then Raph takes off the helmet and they go at it. Nice.
Not to mention Splinter was so freaking cute that I wanted to take him home. I think I almost died when he said he was "going to watch his stories" in the same sort of way my Memere does [before she yells, "Just dump him and shut up!"]. Anyway, if you haven't seen it, do. Turtle power!
Afterward, the bunch of us hit Friendly's for some ice cream. I was surrounded and therefore taunted by the multitudes of chocolate [that I gave up for Lent], but thouroughly enjoyed my strawberry banana thing. It was fun to sit and chat with everyone outside of gaming and pretend to shuriken them with sugar packets. By the way, I'm the second ninja to the right in the Foot Clan, but I'm really the leader. We've got a kind of Queen Amidala thing going on.
Erin and I had planned on going to talk to the Dean of Faculty even before Neil irritated the heck out of me on Thursday morning. I was perfectly content fooling around in Photoshop--layer masking, erasing, shrinking, etc.--when Neil came over and asked what I was doing since he hadn't taught any of that stuff. I explained, and then I happened to want to do something and couldn't figure out how to do it. Instead of letting me figure it out myself [which I did two minutes later], he had to stand over my shoulder the whole time saying, "I can't follow what you're doing, so I can't help you."
"That's fine," I said. I distinctly remember not asking for his help.
"Well, you're not following the work flow, so I don't know where you are to help you."
I still haven't asked for his help. In fact, I would be much obliged if he would stop standing over my shoulder. "I'll figure it out, I know how to use Photoshop." Since my mother is a graphic designer and has had the program or something like it since I was five. And I don't follow a 'work flow'--I can't do art in step-by-steps. It seems to be the anti-thesis of art to me. Yet another reason why I can't even respect Neil's opinion as an artist. Whatever.
So Erin and I went to complain to Debrah Nitschke-Shaw about him in the afternoon. She seemed to really want to help us out, took notes and everything. She knew we were good students from seeing our names before which was surprising and nice to hear. Shopping in Concord with John, Adam, Billy, and Moran on Thursday night was a blast. I tried a coffee coolatta for the first time, and it was surprisingly good since I despise coffee.
The birthday dinner for Jen at Longhorn in Manchester was fun, and it was nice meeting her coworkers at the high school, Cori and Jesse. Fortunately, they were nerds too so conversation wasn't too difficult even though we didn't really know them. We came back to play in NECRA's Block Party, i. e. several different table top games run in two days. Dave ran a Changeling game where I was the only good-aligned [Seelie] character in the party--and a very Seelie one at that since I was a tomboy troll--so it was... interesting, but still really fun. I had never played Nightbane before, but I got to try it out when someone didn't show up to Jay's game. I was highly amused when the psychic character handed to me was essentially a Water Bender from the Avatar show. I think I was the only one who managed not to seriously injure anyone except for the evil me who came out of the mirror and wanted to kill me--she wasn't real so it's okay. I was supposed to play in another game later on that night, but everyone was pretty burned out so we ended up sitting up in the Simon Center chatting.
All in all a good week. :D I hate you all. Happy April Fool's, everyone.
Not to mention Splinter was so freaking cute that I wanted to take him home. I think I almost died when he said he was "going to watch his stories" in the same sort of way my Memere does [before she yells, "Just dump him and shut up!"]. Anyway, if you haven't seen it, do. Turtle power!
Afterward, the bunch of us hit Friendly's for some ice cream. I was surrounded and therefore taunted by the multitudes of chocolate [that I gave up for Lent], but thouroughly enjoyed my strawberry banana thing. It was fun to sit and chat with everyone outside of gaming and pretend to shuriken them with sugar packets. By the way, I'm the second ninja to the right in the Foot Clan, but I'm really the leader. We've got a kind of Queen Amidala thing going on.
Erin and I had planned on going to talk to the Dean of Faculty even before Neil irritated the heck out of me on Thursday morning. I was perfectly content fooling around in Photoshop--layer masking, erasing, shrinking, etc.--when Neil came over and asked what I was doing since he hadn't taught any of that stuff. I explained, and then I happened to want to do something and couldn't figure out how to do it. Instead of letting me figure it out myself [which I did two minutes later], he had to stand over my shoulder the whole time saying, "I can't follow what you're doing, so I can't help you."
"That's fine," I said. I distinctly remember not asking for his help.
"Well, you're not following the work flow, so I don't know where you are to help you."
I still haven't asked for his help. In fact, I would be much obliged if he would stop standing over my shoulder. "I'll figure it out, I know how to use Photoshop." Since my mother is a graphic designer and has had the program or something like it since I was five. And I don't follow a 'work flow'--I can't do art in step-by-steps. It seems to be the anti-thesis of art to me. Yet another reason why I can't even respect Neil's opinion as an artist. Whatever.
So Erin and I went to complain to Debrah Nitschke-Shaw about him in the afternoon. She seemed to really want to help us out, took notes and everything. She knew we were good students from seeing our names before which was surprising and nice to hear. Shopping in Concord with John, Adam, Billy, and Moran on Thursday night was a blast. I tried a coffee coolatta for the first time, and it was surprisingly good since I despise coffee.
The birthday dinner for Jen at Longhorn in Manchester was fun, and it was nice meeting her coworkers at the high school, Cori and Jesse. Fortunately, they were nerds too so conversation wasn't too difficult even though we didn't really know them. We came back to play in NECRA's Block Party, i. e. several different table top games run in two days. Dave ran a Changeling game where I was the only good-aligned [Seelie] character in the party--and a very Seelie one at that since I was a tomboy troll--so it was... interesting, but still really fun. I had never played Nightbane before, but I got to try it out when someone didn't show up to Jay's game. I was highly amused when the psychic character handed to me was essentially a Water Bender from the Avatar show. I think I was the only one who managed not to seriously injure anyone except for the evil me who came out of the mirror and wanted to kill me--she wasn't real so it's okay. I was supposed to play in another game later on that night, but everyone was pretty burned out so we ended up sitting up in the Simon Center chatting.
All in all a good week. :D I hate you all. Happy April Fool's, everyone.