love is insane baby...
wow, so like, this is the first LJ post i've made in quite awhile. more than a year i think and coming quite close to almost two years. got tired of writing about all the trivial bullshit going on in my life so i took a hiatus. things aren't too bad here, i'm getting my usual nerd fix with regular DnD games, my awesome new computer is set to arrive tomorrow in the mail, and i'm successfully nearly through week two of my diet. also, and most importantly, i'm working an incredibly awesome job! i'm working as a contract animator working on a very high profile video game title for a major video game manufacturer making $1100 a week.
woo! my little sweetheart just came in to see what i was doing. we got two dogs, a mini-schnauzer and a party poodle. they absolutely the coolest little dogs, smart as whips and they're not stupid little yappy pieces of shit. i'm going to steal them when i move.
anyway, so i'm on a diet. this was sort of a conscious health decision for me mostly, off the record i just wanna be the studly kung fu superstar i was yesteryear. i've been plagued with high blood pressure, sleep apnea and the inability to keep up with everyone when we play airsoft. i drop weight really fast and people have already begun to notice, it's very encouraging.
watch Samurai Champloo on Cartoon Network! check the showtimes and get your monkey asses down in front of the TV!
so, yeah, i finally broke into the video game industry. before i'd just had the opportunity to either offer my services for free in an internship capacity or as a game tester. trust me, being a tester isn't as glamourous as everyone thinks it is. sure, you get to play games for a living. but now, you only get to play ONE game, for about 12-15 hours a day, for months, over and over and over again until you're ready to pluck your eyes out like Pai Mei did to Ellie Driver, California Mountain Snake. geek dollar for me bitches! i'd been in a bit of a funk because before this job happened for me, i had a really, really, really, really bad interview with another video game company that produces games based on their famous movies based in some galaxy quite far away if i understand correctly. one of my friends and former classmates is a big wheel there now and i had worked there as a tester for nearly a year. i was stoked and confident about going to this interview and kicking as and taking names. i was dressed, ready and had all my materials and then some. i was ready to take this job and shape my destiny. what happened next, well, let's just say it wasn't pretty. i chatted with the team lead, the director of the game and the HR person they'd sent. then they saw my demo reel and the ugliness ensued. for the next 10 min., these people proceeded to ass rape me with harsh, brutal and unremitting criticism. when it was over, they thanked me for my time and showed me to the door and i stepped out into the hallway, not knowing what had just happened. i staggered out to my car and just sat there for a moment, stunned, not really sure if it was real. i went home, sat there with NIN blasting as i tried to rouse myself from the state i was in. for the next couple of days, i was in a dark place. i doubted myself. i doubted my abilities, doubted i would ever be able to succeed and even considered going back to school to major in... something, anything that would take me away from the failure that was my place in video games. a few days later i received an email from a guy i intervied with from another pre-viz company. he asked me if i'd be interested in coming on board for a video game they would be working on for a major game company that needed some help outsourced. i jumped on it, and nearly two months later, here i am. things kick ass. i'm getting paid awesomely to be creative for a living as an animator. gawd, i can't think of a better job in the world.
i got to see Josh a few of weekends ago, albeit briefly anyway. i didn't finish work until 8pm that evening and didn't arrive in San Jose until about 9pm. i chatted with him, his grandmother and mother for awhile and until my stomach was a withered and black vesicle. we went over to McDonald's and i essentially bought one of everything on the menu. when we got back, Josh made me play a game of Magic. it was kinda fun i guess, i'm not ready to buy my own deck or play myself but it was entertaining. after that, we went into the backyard and got finely toasted around the edges. i didn't think that i felt anything, but when i watched puzzle pieces slosh around in the cardboard box they came in like multi-coloured bits of water and my McDonald's had suddenly disappeared, i knew i was in oblivion. i ended up passing out on the floor of his grandmother's sun room. the next morning i had some coffee and hung with Josh s'more before he packed up and left.
so this weekend, i'm heading up to the lake with my cousin Michelle. i'm gonna get my head together and relax from this rigorous week of work. i bought the Invader Zim boxed set. it's absolutely the most bitchin'-est boxed set i've ever seen in my life. the whole kit-and-caboodle came in what looks like a shoe box with all the characters all over. inside, is a box that looks like Zim's house with that odd, Jhonen Vasquez perspective seen in the cartoon. it's fucking cool as hell. when you open two halves of the roof, there's a toy of GIR. and the DVDs are stored inside the box's front door.
anyway, take care, i love you all. it's good to be back. ^_^
woo! my little sweetheart just came in to see what i was doing. we got two dogs, a mini-schnauzer and a party poodle. they absolutely the coolest little dogs, smart as whips and they're not stupid little yappy pieces of shit. i'm going to steal them when i move.
anyway, so i'm on a diet. this was sort of a conscious health decision for me mostly, off the record i just wanna be the studly kung fu superstar i was yesteryear. i've been plagued with high blood pressure, sleep apnea and the inability to keep up with everyone when we play airsoft. i drop weight really fast and people have already begun to notice, it's very encouraging.
watch Samurai Champloo on Cartoon Network! check the showtimes and get your monkey asses down in front of the TV!
so, yeah, i finally broke into the video game industry. before i'd just had the opportunity to either offer my services for free in an internship capacity or as a game tester. trust me, being a tester isn't as glamourous as everyone thinks it is. sure, you get to play games for a living. but now, you only get to play ONE game, for about 12-15 hours a day, for months, over and over and over again until you're ready to pluck your eyes out like Pai Mei did to Ellie Driver, California Mountain Snake. geek dollar for me bitches! i'd been in a bit of a funk because before this job happened for me, i had a really, really, really, really bad interview with another video game company that produces games based on their famous movies based in some galaxy quite far away if i understand correctly. one of my friends and former classmates is a big wheel there now and i had worked there as a tester for nearly a year. i was stoked and confident about going to this interview and kicking as and taking names. i was dressed, ready and had all my materials and then some. i was ready to take this job and shape my destiny. what happened next, well, let's just say it wasn't pretty. i chatted with the team lead, the director of the game and the HR person they'd sent. then they saw my demo reel and the ugliness ensued. for the next 10 min., these people proceeded to ass rape me with harsh, brutal and unremitting criticism. when it was over, they thanked me for my time and showed me to the door and i stepped out into the hallway, not knowing what had just happened. i staggered out to my car and just sat there for a moment, stunned, not really sure if it was real. i went home, sat there with NIN blasting as i tried to rouse myself from the state i was in. for the next couple of days, i was in a dark place. i doubted myself. i doubted my abilities, doubted i would ever be able to succeed and even considered going back to school to major in... something, anything that would take me away from the failure that was my place in video games. a few days later i received an email from a guy i intervied with from another pre-viz company. he asked me if i'd be interested in coming on board for a video game they would be working on for a major game company that needed some help outsourced. i jumped on it, and nearly two months later, here i am. things kick ass. i'm getting paid awesomely to be creative for a living as an animator. gawd, i can't think of a better job in the world.
i got to see Josh a few of weekends ago, albeit briefly anyway. i didn't finish work until 8pm that evening and didn't arrive in San Jose until about 9pm. i chatted with him, his grandmother and mother for awhile and until my stomach was a withered and black vesicle. we went over to McDonald's and i essentially bought one of everything on the menu. when we got back, Josh made me play a game of Magic. it was kinda fun i guess, i'm not ready to buy my own deck or play myself but it was entertaining. after that, we went into the backyard and got finely toasted around the edges. i didn't think that i felt anything, but when i watched puzzle pieces slosh around in the cardboard box they came in like multi-coloured bits of water and my McDonald's had suddenly disappeared, i knew i was in oblivion. i ended up passing out on the floor of his grandmother's sun room. the next morning i had some coffee and hung with Josh s'more before he packed up and left.
so this weekend, i'm heading up to the lake with my cousin Michelle. i'm gonna get my head together and relax from this rigorous week of work. i bought the Invader Zim boxed set. it's absolutely the most bitchin'-est boxed set i've ever seen in my life. the whole kit-and-caboodle came in what looks like a shoe box with all the characters all over. inside, is a box that looks like Zim's house with that odd, Jhonen Vasquez perspective seen in the cartoon. it's fucking cool as hell. when you open two halves of the roof, there's a toy of GIR. and the DVDs are stored inside the box's front door.
anyway, take care, i love you all. it's good to be back. ^_^